The Bridal Knot

“To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.”

“The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It’s a choice you make–not just on your wedding day, but over and over again–and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.”

“Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.”

“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right doing there is a field. I’ll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about.”

“They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.”

“Doubt thou the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.”

“Never love anyone who treats you like you’re ordinary.”

“I don’t want the heavens or the shooting stars. I don’t want gemstones or gold. I have those things already. I want… a steady hand. A kind soul.”

“When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance.”

“Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get–only with what you are expecting to give–which is everything.”

“Romance is the glamor which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.”

“When you trip over love, it is easy to get up. But when you fall in love, it is impossible to stand again.”

“The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds.”

“The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they’re right if you love to be with them all the time.”

“People are weird. When we find someone with weirdness that is compatible with ours, we team up and call it love.”

“This is what we call love. When you are loved, you can do anything in creation. When you are loved, there’s no need at all to understand what’s happening, because everything happens within you.”

“Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward.”

“Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.”

“The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.”

“One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.”

“A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.”

“There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.”

“When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.”

“Love at first sight is easy to understand; it’s when two people have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle.”

“There is no remedy for love but to love more.”

“A great marriage is not when the ‘perfect couple’ comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.”

“When I saw you I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew.” –

“Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.”

“What greater thing is there for two human souls, than to feel that they are joined for life–to strength each other in all labor, to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to each other in silent unspeakable memories at the moment of the last parting?”

“Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.”

“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”

“A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.”

Happy New Year!

"In order to be successful in the new year, stay focused, develop a positive attitude, and be passionate about your dreams." - Bamigboye Olurotimi

“To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow–this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.”
– Elizabeth Gilbert, Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

“Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.”

“If I get married, I want to be very married.”
– Audrey Hepburn

When you love what you have you have everything you need.

“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate then when I fall asleep your eyes close.”

“To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow–this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.”