She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that’s best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes
Thus mellow’d to that tender light
Which heaven to gaudy day denies.
One shade the more, one ray the less,
Had half impair’d the nameless grace
Which waves in every raven tress,
Of softly lightens o’er […]

Drink to me only with thine eyes,
And I will pledge with mine;
Or leave a kiss but in the cup,
And I’ll not look for wine.
The thirst that from the soul doth rise
Doth ask a drink divine;
But might I of Jove’s nectar sup,
I would not change for thine.
I sent thee late a rosy wreath,
No so much honoring […]

“Soup is the song of the hearth… and the home.”
Louis P. De Gouy, The Soup Book (1949)

Love: A fruit always in season.
- Mother Teresa

A Special World
A special world for you and me
A special bond one cannot see
It wraps us up in its cocoon
And holds us fiercely in its womb.
Its fingers spread like fine spun gold
Gently nestling us to the fold
Like silken thread it holds us fast
Bonds like this are meant to last.
And though at times a thread may […]

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

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.
-Martin Luther King Jr.

Wealth is where your friends are.
-Platus

A thankiful heart is not only the greatest virtue but the parent of all other virtues. Cicero

Friendship is a union of spirit,
A marriage of hearts,
And the bond there of virtue.
-Samuel Johnson

Faith is believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.
-Voltare

Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.
-Alexander Smith

A true friend knows your weaknesses but shows you your strengths; fels your fears but fortifies your faith; sees your anxieties but frees your spirit; recognizes your disabilities but emphasizes your possibilities.
-William A Ward

There is no greater joy nor greater reward than to make a fundamental difference in someone’s life.
-Sister Mary Rose McGeady

Nobody will believe in your unless you believe in yourself.
-Liberace

Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light
-Jennie J Churchill (mother of Winston Churchill

Nothing loved was ever lost.
-Ellen Brenneman

There’s nothing like a newborn baby to renew your spirit-and to buttress your resolve to make the world a better place.
-Virginia Kelley

There are spaces between our fingers so that another person’s fingers can fill them in.
-Bits and Pieces

No matter what you’ve done for yourself or for humanity, if you can’t look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?
-Lee Iacocca

William McKinley, the 25th U.S. President, once had to choose between two equally qualified men for a key job. He puzzled over the choice until he remembered a long-ago incident.
On a rainy night, McKinley had boarded a crowded streetcar. One of the men he was now considering had also been aboard, though he didn’t see […]

Anger is the only thing to put off till tomorrow.
-Slovakian Proverb

Three things in human life are important: The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
-Henry James

I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.
-Arthur Rubinstein

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
-Plato

When your heart speaks, take good notes. - Judith Campbell
(Taken from Three Cups of Tea

There is no remedy for love but to love more.
-Thoreau