Marriage Reading (Martin Weitz)
If life has meaning to us at all, it possesses it because of love. It is that which
enshrines and ennnobles our human experience.
It is the basis for the peace of family and the peace of the peoples of the earth. the
greatest gift bestowed upon humans is the gift not of demanding, but of giving love
between two persons.
Untitled (Source Unknown)
Love is not some accident we fall into. Falling in love should be suspect. But if we
GROW in love, then there is the possibility that our tomorrows will be even more
joyous, more tender, and caressing, more devoted to life flowing through us:
tomorrows more full of the thrill of life even as each day is better than yesterday.
Love has the capacity for that magic. Perhaps only love has such capacity.
Untitled (George Eliot)
What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined
together- to strengthen each other in all labor, to minister to ech other in all sorrow, to
share with each other in all gladness, to be one with each other in the silent,
unsporken memories?
Untitled (Gilda Radner, Actress and Comedienne)
I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't
rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end.
Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best
of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.
From How to Save Your Own Life (Erica Jong)
Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's
cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. . . . It really is worth
fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk
anything, you risk even more.
Untitled (Thomas à Kempis, German monk and mystic)
Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues
not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it
avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls
and lies helpless.
Untitled (William Parrish) from the movie, "Meet Joe Black"
Love is passion, obsession, someone you can't live without. If you don't start with
that, what are you going to end up with? Fall head over heels. I say find someone
you can love like crazy and who'll love you the same way back. And how do you find
him? Forget your head and listen to your heart. I'm not hearing any heart.
Run the risk, if you get hurt, you'll come back. Because, the truth is there is no sense
living your life without this. To make the journey and not fall deeply in love - well, you
haven't lived a life at all. You have to try. Because if you haven't tried, you haven't
lived.
Untitled (Judy Bielicki)
It is often said that it is love that makes the world go round. However, without doubt,
it is friendship which keeps our spinning existence on an even keel.
True friendship provides so many of the essentials for a happy life - it is the
foundation on which to build an enduring relationship, it is the mortar which bonds us
together in harmony, and it is the calm, warm protection we sometimes need when
the world outside seems cold and chaotic.
True friendship holds a mirror to our foibles and failings, without destroying our sense
of worthiness. True friendship nurtures our hopes, supports us in our
disappointments, and encourages us to grow to our best potential.
{Bride's Name} and {Groom's Name} came together as friends. Today, they pledge to
each other not only their love, but also the strength, warmth and, most importantly,
the fun of true friendship.
Sooner or Later
Sooner or later we begin to understand that love is more than verses on valentines,
and romance in the movies. We begin to know that love is here and now, real and
true, the most important thing in our lives. For love is the creator of our favourite
memories and the foundation of our fondest dreams.
Love is a promise that is always kept, a fortune that can never be spent, a seed that
can flourish in even the most unlikely of places. And this radiance that never fades,
this mysterious and magical joy, is the greatest treasure of all - one known only by
those who love.
Anon
