Love is Life

A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.
-------George Jean Nathan 


Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love
-----Albert Einstein 


Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love
------------------Mother Teresa 

Mother's Love

To a child's ear, "mother" is magic in any language.

- Arlene Benedict, For Mother with Love 

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God sees us through our Mothers' eyes and rewards us for our virtues.
- Ganeshan Venkatarman, Indian philosopher

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Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face
- George Eliot, English novelist 

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Mother is the name of God in the lips and hearts of children.
- William Makepeace Thackeray, English novelist

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A mother is she who can take the place of all others.
- Cardinal Mermillod 

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A mother's love is instinctual, unconditional, and forever.
- unknown

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Mother is the bank where we deposit all our hurts and worries.
- unknown 

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For mother's sake the child was dear,
and dearer was the mother for the child.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English poet 

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My mother's love for me was so great I have worked hard to justify it.
- Marc Chagall 

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No influence is so powerful as that of the mother.
- Sarah Josepha Hale 

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The strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
- Barbara Kingsolver 

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Mothers are instinctive philosophers.
- Harriet Beecher Stowe 

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She's my teacher, adviser, and greatest inspiration.
- Whitney Houston 

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A good mother is worth hundreds of schoolmasters.
- George Herbert 

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A mother loves her children even when they least deserve to be loved.
- Kate Samperi, "Mothers"

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There is no substitute for mother.
- unknown 

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Mother is the one we count on for the things that matter most of all.
- Katherine Butler Hathaway, "The Journals and Letters of the Little Locksmith" 

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When it comes to love, Mom's the word.
For all the ways you've helped me grow
I want to say I love you so.
- Renaissance® Greeting Cards, a div. of FTD Inc.

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Who ran to help me when I fell,
Or kissed the place to make it well?
....My mother.
- Ann Taylor 

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A mother understands what a child does not say.
- Jewish proverb 

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Mother's love is peace.
It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.
- Erich Fromm, psychologist 

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All I am I owe to my mother.
- George Washington, first U.S. president

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A man loves his sweetheart the most,
his wife the best,
but his mother the longest.
- Irish proverb 

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Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore,
And that's what parents were created for.
- Ogden Nash 

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Mother is the home we come from.
She is nature, soil, ocean.
- Erich Fromm, psychologist 

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A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
- Dorothy C. Fisher (1879-1958) 

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She brings the sunshine into the house; it is now a pleasure to be there.
- Cecil Beaton, British fashion photographer (1904-80)

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Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible.
- Unknown 

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One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder
where you are when you don't come home at night.
- Margaret Mead 

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A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother.
-Unknown 

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My mother loved children - she would have given anything if I had been one.
- Groucho Marx 

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The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world.
- W.R. Wallace

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God could not be everywhere and therefore He made mothers.
- Jewish Proverb 

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Mothers are the necessity of invention.
- Calvin 

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Her voice was ever soft,
Gentle and low, an excellent thing in woman.
- William Shakespeare, King Lear

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The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.
- Henry Ward Beecher 

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Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother
-Lin Yutang 

Best Gifts for Your Boyfriend

If you are a lady who is really trying to find good gifts for boyfriends but finding it hard to choose whenever you try to shop, try these simple tips to help you get a relevant and most appropriate gift for any occasion.
How do you manage choosing this unique gift I hear you ask? Easy! It is very important to be aware of certain things to be able to know what he wants as well as what he would really appreciate. Here are a few of the methods I exploit to come up with the appropriate gift ideas for my boyfriend.
One technique for getting good gift ideas for boyfriend is to try to pay attention whenever the two of you chat. Does your partner point out places he has an interest visiting someday? Now there's a good idea! If you re able to afford it, you can always surprise him with a journey to that special place he'd really love to go.
Another different way for getting good gift for boyfriend is to try to ask his friends, the people he hangs out with. A number of times when friends sit together, they express their passions, talk about products that fascinate them. His friends could be willing to suggest to you his favourite sports club in which case, you can find him some personalised items from the sports club or take him to enjoy his favourite team play a game. His friends could be ready to tell you how he always mentions driving a Ferrari someday. You can get him a 45 minute drive in a Ferrari. Think about that?
Is your boyfriend or husband a book lover, a computer geek, there just might be some gadget you could get him in order to make his book reading or web browsing easier and more enjoyable. There are several choices such as the e-readers, the tablet PCs, other mobile and web- enabled search devices. Consider his need and buy him one of the gadgets to fulfil his need. He'd love you a lot more for being very thoughtful.
How will you fancy treating him to some nice romantic candle- lit dinner? This may either be at your home or at a special restaurant. You can pamper and make him special by sharing a day inside the spa with him. Treat him to an aromatherapy massage session. This will help loosen many of the knots and tensions which may have accumulated resulting from all his hard-work.

Charles R. Swindoll quotes

“The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, the education, the money, than circumstances, than failure, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or break a company... a church... a home. The remarkable thing is we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past... we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. And so it is with you... we are in charge of our Attitudes.”

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her.
If you love someone, let them go. If they return to you, it was meant to be. If they don't, their love was never yours to begin with...
Love is hard work; and hard work sometimes hurts!
Who says love never lives? Maybe we've never lived.
Some love lasts a lifetime. True love lasts forever.
If love is great, and there are no greater things, then what I feel for you must be the greatest.
Love is like playing the piano. First you must learn to play by the rules, then you must forget the rules and play from your heart.
If I could reach up and hold a star for every time you've made me smile, the entire evening sky would be in the palm of my hand.
We all want to fall in love. Why? Because that experience makes us feel completely alive. Where every sense is heightened, every emotion is magnified, our everyday reality is shattered and we are flying into the heavens. It may only last a moment, an hour, an afternoon. But that doesn't diminish its value, because we are left with memories that we treasure to the rest of our lives.
Never underestimate the power of love.
The way to love anything is to realize it may be lost.
The heart has its reasons that reason does not know at all.
Music is love in search of a word.

Sonnet 18: William Shakespeare

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date:
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance, or nature's changing course untrimm'd;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st;
Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st:
So long as man can breath, or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

Saint Valentine and a Brief History of Valentine's Day

The next time you're thinking of purchasing a Valentine's Day gift for your beloved, you might want to ponder the fact that the holiday was named for an early Christian martyr named Saint Valentine. Legend has it that though Valentine was celibate himself, he secretly married young men who were forbidden to do so by a law established by the Roman Emperor Claudius II who believed that married men made for poor soldiers. Claudius had Saint Valentine arrested and it is likely that he was executed soon after.
It wasn't until the Middle ages and the Renaissance, when the idea of romantic and courtly love began to take hold that the holiday began to take on the spirit with which it is know today. A High Court of Love (it dealt with love contracts, betrayals, and violence against women) was established in Paris on February 14, 1400. Romantic references began to appear in the poetry of Geoffrey Chaucer, William Shakespeare and John Donne.
The commercial underpinnings of the holiday began when cards and verses began to appear in early 19th century England. Hand written notes on Paper Valentines became so popular that factories were established to mass-produce them. Lace and ribbons were added and, by mid-century, half the population was spending money on Valentines. Valentine's Day cards were first produced in the United States in 1847.
The practice of sending cards dominated the marketplace until the 1950s when gift giving began to become popular. A gift of flowers or candy became commonplace. Soon after, the jewelry industry began to promote Valentine's Day gifts with a special emphasis on diamonds.
Today the internet offers an added impetus to giving gifts in general and Valentine's Day in particular. Coupons, e-cards and gift ideas and promotions have all added additional opportunities and flair to one of the world's most popular holidays.
While sending cards and gift giving is the predominant way that Valentine's Day is celebrated, a number of countries have additional customs that are observed. In Lithuania and Latvia, celebrants paste stickers on their friend's faces and clothing. In India, various media outlets hold Love Letter Competitions. In many countries there are traditional variants of Valentine's Day that stem from their own cultural mythologies. Nevertheless the western version, with all its commercial trimmings, is beginning to take hold. Some Islamic countries have even banned the holiday altogether and occasionally black market sales of Valentine's Day cards and gifts have been created.
Valentine's Day is a favorite holiday for those who have someone special in their lives. When you're thinking about giving a Valentine's Day gift to that someone special this year, remember to smile up at Saint Valentine - the Christian martyr who started it all.


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