The Chaos of Stars extract – Kiersten White

I didn’t fall in love with you. I walked into love

with you, with my eyes wide open, choosing to

take every step along the way. I do believe in

fate and destiny, but I also believe we are only

fated to do the things that we’d choose

anyway. And I’d choose you; in a hundred

Lifetimes, in a hundred worlds, in any version

Of reality, I’d find you and I’d choose you.

What it is – Erich Fried Possible Flash Mob.

It is madness
says reason………….reader 1
It is what it is
says love……………..reader 2

It is unhappiness
says caution……… .reader 3
It is nothing but pain
says fear………………reader 4
It has no future
says insight…………   reader 5
It is what it is
says love……………….reader 2

It is ridiculous
says pride…………….reader 6
It is foolish
says caution………….reader 7
It is impossible
says experience………reader 8
It is what it is
says love……………..reader 2

Always - Lang Leav.

You were You, and I was I.

We were two.

Before our time.

I was Yours,

Before I Knew

And You have always, been mine too.

Mr Rodgers Poem

It's you I love

Not the things you wear,

Not the way you do your hair, but it's you I like.

The way you are right now.

The way down deep inside you.

Not the things that hide you.

Not your stuff, they're just beside you.

It's you I like.   Every part of you.

Your skin, your eyes, your feelings, whether old or new.

I hope that you remember,

Even when you're feeling blue,

That it's you I like.

It's you yourself. It's you.  It's you I love

That still and settled place - Edward Monkton

 In that still and settled place

There’s nobody but you.

You’re where I breathe my oxygen.

You’re where I see my view.

And when the world feels full of noise.

My heart knows what to do.

It finds that still and settled place.

And dances there with you.

Isn’t it funny.

Isn’t it Funny.

Isn’t it strange.

That when I met You Everything changed.

Isn’t it Lovely.

Since all this began

I’ve been your Lady  and You have been My Man.

I searched for so long.

I need search no more.

We met one another, and now we’re complete.

Isn’t it funny, Isn’t it strange.

As soon as we met, everything changed.

Marriage - Chris Ardis

Marriage is Love walking hand in hand together.

It’s laughing with each other about silly little things and

Learning to discuss big things with care and tenderness.

In marriage, Love is trusting each other when You’re apart.

It’s getting over disappointment and hurts,

Knowing that these are present in all relationships.

It’s the realisation that there is no one else in this world.

That you’d rather be with

than the one you’re married to.

Its thinking of new things to do together.

It’s growing old together.

Marriage is being in love for the rest of your life.

My Only Love.

Just to say I love You,

never seems enough.

I’ve said it so many times.

I’m afraid You won’t understand What I really mean when I say it.

How can so much feeling and so much adoration,

fit into those three little words.

But until I find some other way of saying what I feel

Then, I LOVE YOU will have to do.

No matter how many times I Have to say it, never take it lightly.

For YOU ARE MY LIFE and my only Love.

I love You more now, than ever before.

The Alchemist - Paulo Coehlo.

When he looked into her eyes,

He learned the most important part of the language that all the world spoke -

the language that everyone on earth

was capable of understanding in their heart.

It was LOVE.

Something older than humanity,

more ancient than the desert.

What the boy felt at that moment was that,

he was in in the presence of the only woman in his life,

and that, with no need for words,

she recognised the same thing.

because when you know the language, it’s easy to understand.

that someone in the world awaits you,

whether it’s in the middle of the desert or in some great city.

and when two people encounter each other,

the past and the future become unimportant.

there is only this moment,

and the incredible certainty that everything under the sun

has been written by one hand only.

it is the hand that evokes Love, and creates a twin soul,

for every person in the world.

without such LOVE

one’s dreams would have no meaning.

What is Love.

The way the sun sets so that the moon can shine.

The sea greeting the shore no matter,

how many times it is pushed away.

Leaves that blush at the sight of Autumn.

Dreams that show you ways out of your maze

Our hearts together

so that we may remember the tune

This is how Love,

might feel for most people but

FOR ME LOVE IS SIMPLY YOU.

I Will Be Here - Steven C Chapman

Tomorrow mornin' if you wake up
And the sun does not appear
I, I will be here.

If in the dark we lose sight of love
Hold my hand and have no fear
'Cause I, I will be here.

When you feel like bein' quiet
(When you need to) when you need to speak your mind
I will listen, and I will be here (and I will be here)
When the laughter turns to cryin'
Through the winnin' and losin' and tryin'
We'll be together
'Cause I will be here.

Tomorrow mornin' if you wake up
And the future is unclear
I, I'll be here.

Just as sure as seasons are made for change
Our lifetimes are made for years
I, I will be here.

I will be here
You can cry on my shoulder
When the mirror tells us we're older
I will hold you and I will be here
To watch you grow in beauty
And tell you all the things you are to me
I will be here.

I will be true
To the promise I have made
To you and to the one who gave you to me.

I, I will be here
Hey, and just as sure as seasons are made for change
Our lifetimes are made for years.

'Cause I will be here
We'll be together forever
'Cause I will be here ………… I WILL be here.

Dr Seuss quote

We are all a little weird and life’s a little weird,

and when we find someone, whose weirdness is compatible with ours,

We join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness.

and call it love.

Loving someone is like moving into a house.

At first you fall in love with all the new things,

amazed every morning that all this belongs to you,

as if fearing that someone would suddenly,

come rushing in through the door,

to explain that a terrible mistake had been made,

You weren’t actually supposed to live in a wonderful place like this.

Then over the years the walls become weathered,

the wood splinters here and there,

and you start to love that house.

not so much because of all its perfection,

but rather for its imperfections.

You get to know all the nooks and crannies.

How to avoid getting the key caught in the lock

when it’s cold outside.

Which of the floorboards flex slightly when one steps on them,

or exactly how to open the wardrobe doors without them creaking.

These are the little secrets that make it your home.

A Word to Husbands – Ogden Nash

To keep your marriage brimming with love in the loving cup,
Whenever you’re wrong admit it.
Whenever you’re right.

Shut Up!

John O Donohue speaking of Anam Cara

In the Celtic tradition, there is a beautiful understanding of love and friendship.

One of the fascinating ideas here is the idea of soul-love.

The old Gaelic term for this is Anam Cara.

Anam is the Gaelic word for soul, and Cara is the word for Friend.

So Anam Cara in the Celtic world was the "Soul Friend."

In everyone's life, there is a great need for an Anam Cara, a Soul Friend.

In this love, you are understood as you are you can be, as you really are.

Love allows understanding to dawn,

and understanding is precious.

Where you are understood, you are at home.

Marriage is a promise – Anon.

A Marriage is a promise that two Hearts gladly make,

the promise to be tender, to help to give and take.

Marriage is a promise to be kind And Understanding

To be thoughtful and considerate Fair and undemanding.

Marriage is a promise to share One Life together.

A Love filled promise meant to be Kept Lovingly forever.

Marry your best friend.

I do not say that lightly. Really, truly find the strongest,

happiest friendship in the person you fall in love with.

Someone who speaks highly of you.

Someone you can laugh with.

The kind of laughs that make your belly ache, and your nose snort.

The embarrassing, earnest, healing kind of laughs.

Wit is important, Life is too short not to love someone who lets you be a fool with them.

Make sure they are somebody who lets you cry, too.

Despair will come. Find someone you want to be there with you through those times.

More importantly, marry the one that makes passion, love, and madness combine and course through you.

A love that will never dilute with your best friend.

The Bridge across Forever - Richard Bach

A Soulmate is someone who has locks that fit our keys,

and keys to fit our locks.

When we feel safe enough to open the locks,

Our truest selves step out and we can be completely and

honestly who we are.

We can be loved for who we are and

not who we are pretending to be.

Each unveils the best part of the other.

No matter what else goes wrong around us.

With that one person we’re safe in our own paradise.

Our soulmate is someone who shares our deepest longings, our sense of direction.

When we’re two balloons and together our direction is up,

Chances are we’ve found the right person.

Our soul mate is the one who makes,

Life come to Life.

You can give without loving - Victor Hugo, from Les Misérables

You can give without loving but you can never love without giving.

The great acts of love are done by those who are habitually performing small acts of kindness.

We pardon to the extent that we love.

Love is knowing that even when you are alone,

you will never be truly alone again.

And great happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.

Loved for ourselves. And even loved in spite of ourselves.

Quote from Sleepless in Seattle

It was a million tiny little things that, when you added them all up, they meant we were supposed to be together… and I knew it.

I knew it the very first time I touched her. It was like coming home… only to no home I’d ever known…

I was just taking her hand to help her out of a car, and I knew. It was like… magic.

Walk With Me……extract

Put your hand in my hand move with me.

Put your heart with mine and we will see,

the light in your life, the sun in your face.

The moon and the stars are aligned and in place.

 Put your hand in my hand and dance with me.

Put your heart with my heart and sing with me.

The gift you receive is love and grace.

The moon and the stars are aligned and in place.

Love is Friendship caught Fire

Love is friendship caught fire; it is quiet, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times.

It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses. Love is content with the present, hopes for the future, and does not brood over the past.

It is the day-in and day-out chronicles of irritations, problems, compromises, small disappointments, big victories, and working toward common goals.

If you have love in your life, any kind of love, it can make up for a great many things you lack.

If you do not have it, no matter what else there is, it is not enough.

Love is friendship caught fire.