Michelle is getting married (yay!) and is seeking quotes on love for her "Save the Date" magnets. If you have any great quotes for her, please post them here! These are the ones she already has:

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you've imagined." Thoreau

"There is only one happiness in life-to love and be loved." George Sands

"Two souls with but a single thought- Two hearts that beat as one" J. Keats

"To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven." Karen Sunde

"The human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return." Maria Edgeworth

"It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else." Erma Bombeck

"When you love someone, all your saved up wishes start coming out." Elizabeth Bowen

-- Anonymous, November 20, 2002

Answers

"Where there is love there is life." -Mahatma Gandhi

"Love looks not with the eyes but with the mind, And therefore is cupid painted blind." -Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream

"If there ever comes a day When we can't be together keep me in your heart, I'll stay there forever." -Winnie the Pooh, Pooh Bear to Christopher Robin

"Share each day with me Each night, each morning. Love me. That's all I ask of you." -All I ask of you: Phantom of the Opera

"Love is that condition in which The happiness of another person Is essential to your own" -Robert A. Heilein

-- Anonymous, November 20, 2002

I've actually considered making magnets with love quotes (or just some of my favorite quotes in general or, hell, random poetry excerpt) on them for my wedding favors, if I ever find the time to make them. So, yay! Great minds think alike! Here are just a few I have collected. Wait, crap, I can't find my list. Okay, so, here are some others. And congratulations!

"Live to the point of tears." Camus

"Dwell in possibility." Emily Dickinson

"you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars." ee cumming

"now I place my hand upon you, that you be my poem" walt whitman

"The heart is an organ of fire." The English Patient

"I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul." Pablo Neruda

"If equal affection cannot be, Let the more loving one be me." WH Auden

"It is never too late to be what you might have been." George Eliot

"I want real things ... music that makes holes in the sky." Georgia O'Keefe

"I'm looking for a dare to be great situation." Lloyd Dobler

"Since the invention of the kiss, there have been five kisses that were rated the most passionate, the most pure. This one left them all behind." The Princess Bride

"I will have poetry in my life. And adventure. And love -- love that overthrows life. Unbiddable, ungovernable, like a riot in the heart, and nothing to be done, come ruin or rapture. Love like there has never been in a play." Shakespeare in Love

"Failing to fetch me at first keep encouraged, Missing me one place search another, I stop somewhere waiting for you." Walt Whitman

"O, love is the crooked thing. There is nobody wise enough to find out all that is in it; For he would be thinking of love 'Til the stars had run away And the shadows eaten the moon." W.B. Yeats

-- Anonymous, November 20, 2002

"When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody,you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible."

From When Harry Met Sally Written by Nora Ephron

-- Anonymous, November 20, 2002

"We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly." Sam Keen

"To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven." Karen Sunde

"Let your heart guide you. It whispers, so listen closely." Unknown

-- Anonymous, November 20, 2002

"Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important." - Lisa Hoffman

"I am like a falling star who has finally found her place next to another in a lovely constellation, where we will sparkle in the heavens forever." - Amy Tan

"Where there is great love there are always miracles." - Willa Cather

"You don't really get to choose who you fall in love with. Love chooses you." - Brad Pitt

"I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes - and the stars through his soul." - Victor Hugo

"Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it." - Martin Luther King, Jr.

"At the touch of Love everyone becomes a poet." - Plato

"All you need is love." - Lennon/McCartney :)

-- Anonymous, November 20, 2002

This is from that "Love is patient" passage from Corinthians, but it's rarely used and it's my favorite line: "For our knowledge is imperfect and our prophecy is imperfect; but when the perfect comes, the imperfect will pass away."

From Jane Eyre: "My bride is here, because my equal is here, and my likeness."

From Les Miserables (the musical): "To love another person is to see the face of God."

-- Anonymous, November 21, 2002

Um, I suspect these are more for comic relief than practical use. But I couldn't resist.

"After all, in moments of quiet, I'm strangely drawn toward you. But, well, there haven't been any quiet moments." (Bringing Up Baby, 1938)

"Love don't make things nice - it ruins everything. It breaks your heart. It makes things a mess. We aren't here to make things perfect. The snowflakes are perfect. The stars are perfect. Not us. Not us! We are here to ruin ourselves and to break our hearts and love the wrong people and die." (Moonstruck, 1987)

-- Anonymous, November 22, 2002

You girls are the BEST! Thank you all so much for loaning me your favorite quotes. It has been a tremendous help (and Stephen sends a special thank you for the pi quote...that one is going to all his uber geek/computer/math/science friends for their magnets!). I've got some great ones (and yes, Jette, we're sarcastic enough to use those quotes! And Melissa...how could I forget Jane Eyre?!?) for our magnets.

Like Eliza, now I just have to make them. A side note, especially for you, Eliza...you can get the perforated, business card magnets at places like Office Depot, Office Max, Staples. It's a bit pricey, though. If you're trying to do things on the cheap, like me, you can use your publishing program at work to make the business card sized magnets (use heavier stock or use the lamenating machine at work to make them sturdy) and then buy sheets of magnetic paper at craft stores like Michael's or Hobby Lobby. Peel and stick for a LOT less! Legal note: I would never condone bogarting office equipment, supplies or company time to work on wedding business. Oh no, not me. No way. Ahem.

Please know I will be running back to you all with any and all wedding drama...and questions...oh so many questions! I'm thinking running off to get married might be preferable to the enormous Catholic shindig I'm undertaking. Can I get an amen, Eliza?

Thanks again to you all. You're dear, dear women!

-- Anonymous, November 25, 2002