Folks are touchy about Valentine’s Day
Touchy, touchy, touchy.
My bad. Sheesh. It seems that quite a few people are convinced that, for some reason, Valentine’s Day is a real holiday. I spew out a little missive making fun of the fake love-fest created by Hallmark cards and you would think I was asking people to trade in their kids for a new ATV (which in some cases could be a real good deal.)
Anyway, to appease the mob of love birds out there who are counting on a big box of chocolates, a nice dinner and a syrupy Valentine’s Day card, I have provided the following conglomeration of sweetness and light from some serious wordsmiths, writers, poets and thinkers. Feel free to pick a love line that fits and plug it into the aforementioned Hallmark Valentine’s Day card so you can get that all-important big wet Valentine’s Day kiss. “Valentine’s Day is the poet’s holiday.” — Ted Kooser “Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.” — Robert Frost
“Where there is love, there is life.” — Mahatma Gandhi
“Love planted a rose and the world turned sweet.” — Katharine Lee Bates
“Two hearts in love need no words.” — Marceline Desbordes “Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.” — Maya Angelou
“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk through my garden forever.” — Alfred Tennyson
“There is no remedy for love but to love more.” — Henry David Thoreau
“And if the stars should ever die, we’ll make our own light, you and I.” — John Mark Green
“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” — Aristotle
“I want all of you, forever, every day. You and me, every day.” — Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
“Valentine’s Day is just another day to truly love like there is no tomorrow.” — Roy A. Ngansop
“Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.” — Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
“You meet thousands of people and none of them really touch you. And then you meet one person and your life is changed forever.” — Love & Other Drugs
“There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.” — George Sand
“One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.” — Paulo Coelho
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” – Lao Tzu
OPINION
(Jon Klusmire of Bishop is a sentimental sap at heart.)