I've recently been thinking about Bill and I writing our own vows. I think it makes the ceremony that much more special and personalizes it for us. So I have been reading
The Everything Wedding Vows Book by Janet Anastasio and Michelle Bevilacqua which has been extremely helpful in the vow-writing process. I've decided to include some highlights from the book in a three part blog, the first part focusing on thoughts on love: good quotes from smart people on love and marriage. Feel free to use these quotes in your own vows, ceremony, on programs, or however you wish! I have *ed my faves!
"It is a good thing to be rich and strong, but it is a better thing to be loved."
-Euripides
"Those who love deeply never grow old. They may die of old age, but they die young."
-Benjamin Franklin
"In loving, you lean on someone to hold them up."
-Rod McKuen
"True love doesn't have a happy ending, true love doesn't have an ending."
-Unknown
"To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven."
-Karen Sunde
"Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love."
-Leo Tolstoy
*"Where there is love there is life."
-Mahatma Ghandi
"Love is being stupid together."
-Paul Valery
"What I feel for you seems less of earth and more of a cloudless heaven."
-Victor Hugo
*"In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities."
-Janos Arany
"We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence and its only end."
-Benjamin Disraeli
"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly. What is essential is invisible to the eye."
-Antoine de Saint Exupery
"Love...has the greatest power, and is the source of all our happiness and harmony, and makes us friends with the gods who are above us, and with one another."
-Plato
"One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love."
-Sophocles
"If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded."
-Maya Angelou
"True love doesn't consist of holding hands, it consists of holding hearts."
-O.A. Battista
"Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye."
-H. Jackson Brown Jr.
"Love...includes fellowship in suffering, in joy, and in effort."
-Albert Schweitzer
"The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed."
-J. Krishnamurti
"Do all things with love."
-Og Mandino
"Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within."
-James Baldwin
"True love is the joy of life."
-John Clarke
"The love we give away is the only love we keep."
-Elbert Hubbard
"When people care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul."
-Langston Hughes
*"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched, they must be felt with the heart."
-Helen Keller
*"By the accident of fortune a man may rule the world for a time, but by virtue of love he may rule the world forever."
-Lao Tzu
"Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter."
-T.S. Eliot
"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."
-Erica Jong
