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Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Words of Love - Book Review

A family-friendly book with words of wisdom about first love, true love, a mother’s love, romantic love and marriage from the ancient to modern times. ..................................................................................... Nothing’s better than a mother’s love. – African Proverb .............................................................. The greatest love is a mother’s; then comes a dog; then comes a sweetheart’s. – Polish Proverb ........................ I want to make my wife laugh more.l Laughter engenders love. – Rabbi Shumuley Boteach ................................. If you have much, give of your wealth; if you have little give of your heart. – Arab Proverb .......................... Kisses are the messengers of love. – Danish Proverb ................................................................... Love conceals all of one’s faults. – Italian Proverb .................................................................. Love often makes a fool of the cleverest man, and as often gives cleverness to the most foolish. – French Proverb ..... The heart that loves is always young. – Greek Proverb ................................................................. If you judge people, you have no time to love them. – Mother Teresa ................................................... A kiss without a mustache is like an egg with salt. – Spanish Proverb ................................................. Love is sweet, but tastes better with bread. – Yiddish Proverb ........................................................ Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.l Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. – I Corinthians 13:4-7 .................... Love has no age, as it is always renewing. – Blaise Pascal ............................................................ Love is a mighty power, a great and complete good. Love alone lightens every burden, and makes the rough places smooth. – Thomas A. Kempis .................................................................................................... Love understands love: It needs no talk. – Frances R. Havergal ........................................................ Love is friendship set to music. – E. Joseph Cossman .................................................................. Love and you shall be loved. – Ralph Waldo Emerson .................................................................... There is more pleasure in loving than being loved. – Thomas Fuller .................................................... All that we love deeply becomes a part of us. – Helen Keller .......................................................... To be loved, be loveable. – Ovid ...................................................................................... A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person. – Germaine Greer .............. To fall in love is awfully simple, but to fall out of love is simple awful. – Anonymous .............................. Teenagers don’t know what love is. They have mixed up ideas. They go for a drive, and the boy runs out of gas, and they smooch a little and the girl says she loves him. That isn’t love. Love is when you are married twenty-five years, smooching in your living room, and he runs out of gas and she says she still loves him. That’s love. – Norm Crosby ...................................................................................................................... If you love somebody, tell them. – Rod McKuen ......................................................................... The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how they love them while they are alive. – Orlando A. Battista ................................................................................................... In real love you want the other person’s good. In romantic love you want the other person. – Margaret Anderson ....................................................................................................................... What comes from the heart, goes to the heart. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge ............................................... For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it. – Ivan Panin ........................................................... Marriage is a lot like the army, everyone complains, but you’d be surprised at the large number that re-enlist. – James Garner ................................................................................................................ An archaeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. – Agatha Christie .............................................................................................................. This is the way marriage should be: ................................................................................... To have and to hold from this day forward, for better or worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and cherish, till death fo us apart. – The Book of Common Prayer ....................................................................................................................... A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day. – Andre Maurois ................................... Never forget the nine most important words of any marriage: 1. I love you. 2. You are beautiful. 3. Please forgive me. – H. Jackson Brown, Jr. ............................................................................................... There is no friendship, no love, like that of the mother for the child. – Henry Wade Beecher .......................... When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child. – Sophia Loren ........................................................................ The child who acts unloveable is the child who needs to be loved. – Cathy Rindner Tempelsman .......................... A baby is born with a need to be loved – and never outgrows it. – Frank A. Clark ...................................... My best creation is my children. – Diane von Furstenberg .............................................................. Have you hugged your child today? – Slogan ............................................................................ If you can’t hold children in your arms, please hold them in your heart. – Clara Hale ................................. The only thing worth stealing is a kiss from a sleeping child. – Joe Houldsworth ...................................... Sometimes it’s better to put love into hugs than to put it into words. – Anonymous .................................... Our ability to pray for people and surround them with love makes an enormous difference in how they feel and heal. – Peggy Huddleston ...................................................................................................... Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend. – Martin Luther King, Jr. ...................... Never succumb to the temptation of becoming bitter. As you press for justice, be sure to move with dignity and discipline, using only the weapon of love. – Martin Luther King, Jr. .................................................. The final word is love. – Dorthy Day .................................................................................. I was given a free copy of this book tom review by Viva Editions. ..................................................... Allen Klein is the author of this book. ............................................................................... He is on a mission to deliver joy and get people into the habit of thinking positively. He is the world’s only certified Jollytologist@.