Dear annie

DEAR READERS: Wishing you all a very Happy Valentine’s Day. I hope it is filled with lots of love, laughter and joy. Below are some famous quotes

about love.

“Doubt thou the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.”

—William Shakespeare “If I should think of love / I’d think of you, your arms uplifted, / Tying your hair in plaits above, / The lyre shape of your arms and shoulders, / The soft curve of your winding head. / No melody is sweeter, nor could Orpheus / So have bewitched. I think of this, / And all my universe becomes perfection. / But were you in my arms, dear love, / The happiness would take my breath away, / No thought could match that ecstasy, / No song encompass it, no other worlds. / If I should think of love, / I’d think of you.”

—William Shakespeare “Love is the whole thing. We are only the pieces.”

—Rumi “Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.”

—Robert Frost “If I had a flower for every time I thought of you … I could walk through my garden forever.”

—Alfred Tennyson “The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.”

—Rumi “Where there is love there is life.” —Mahatma Gandhi

“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”

—Lao Tzu “All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.”

—Charles M. Schulz “Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.”

—Aristotle “In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.”

—Maya Angelou “Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.”

—Mother Teresa “Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, 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.”

—Ann Landers “’Tis better to have lost and loved than never to have loved at all.”

—Ernest Hemingway “When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.”

—Paulo Coelho “Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.”

—William Shakespeare “Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.”

—Voltaire “Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.” —Oscar Wilde