For Valentine Lovers Without A Valentine Line

I created this scroll for a post a couple years ago but thought there might be a few who just can’t come up with the right line for their valentine. Here are 50 from the past that you can pick and choose from. Please …don’t confine yourself to only one …wonder awaits!

I hope you enjoy 50 Shades of Love, and Happy Valentine’s Day with love to all.

50 Shades of Love from Paul Mark Sutherland

1. Life is the flower for which love is the honey. —Victor Hugo
2. Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. —Plato
3. The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds. —Nicholas Sparks
4. If you judge people, you have no time to love them. —Mother Teresa
5. Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.
   —Zelda Fitzgerald
6. A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you. —Elbert Hubbard
7. Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. —Robert A. Heinlein
8. You don’t love someone because of their looks or their clothes or their car. You love them because they sing a song only your heart can understand. —L.J. Smith
9. For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul. —Judy Garland
10. Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. —Lao Tzu
11. Where there is love there is life. —Mahatma Ghandi
12. Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality. —Emily Dickinson
13. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others… —John Lennon
14. I love you, and it’s getting worse. —Joseph Morris
15. I want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees. —Pablo Neruda
16. Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. —Aristotle
17. If you love someone, put their name in a circle not a heart, because a heart can be broken, but a circle goes on forever. —Brian Littrell
18. If I had a flower for every time I thought of you…I could walk through my garden forever. —Alfred Tennyson
19. Love is a game that two can play and both win. —Eva Gabor
20. I have met in the streets a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, the water passed through his shoes and the stars through his soul.
    —Victor Hugo
21. When someone loves you, the way they say your name is different. You know that your name is safe in their mouth. —Jess C. Scott
22. Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new. —Ursula K. LeGuin
23. There’s this place in me where your fingerprints still rest, your kisses still linger, and your whispers softly echo. It’s the place where a part of you will forever be a part of me. —Gretchen Kemp
24. Come sleep with me, we won’t make love, love will make us. —Julio Cortázar
25. Morning without you is a dwindled dawn. —Emily Dickinson
26. Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.
    —Maya Angelou
27. The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
    —W. Somerset Maugham
28. Love is how you stay alive, even after you are gone. —Mitch Albom
29. Where there is great love, there are always miracles. —Willa Cather
30. Sometimes it’s a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence. —David Byrne
31. I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed and that necessary. —Margaret Atwood
32. I want morning and noon and nightfall with you. I want your tears, your smiles, your kisses…the smell of your hair, the taste of your skin, the touch of your breath on my face. I want to see you in the final hour of my life…to lie in your arms as I take my last breath. —Lisa Kleypas
33. If I know what love is, it is because of you. —Hermann Hesse
34. One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life. That word is love. —Sophocles
35. Even after all this time the sun never says to the earth, ‘You owe me.’ Look what happens with a love like that, it lights the whole sky. —Hafiz
36. Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing. —Mother Teresa
37. Who, being loved, is poor? —Oscar Wilde
38. Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself. —Leo Buscaglia
39. I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.
    —Paulo Coelho
40. If you have love, you don’t need to have anything else, and if you don’t have it, it doesn’t matter much what else you have. —James Barrie
41. Love is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the humblest imaginable. —Mahatma Gandhi
42. Love is a flower that grows in any soil, works its sweet miracles undaunted by autumn frost or winter snow, blooming fair and fragrant all the year, and blessing those who give and those who receive. —Louisa May Alcott
43. The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough is love. —Henry Miller
44. To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three-parts dead.
    —Bertrand Russell
45. The soul that can speak through the eyes can also kiss with a gaze.
    —Gustavo Adolfo Becquer
46. How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach. —Elizabeth Barrett Browning
47. Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. —Oscar Wilde 
48. In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities. —Janos Arany
49. I love you, not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.
    —Roy Croft
50. I will love you always. When this red hair is white, I will still love you. When the smooth softness of youth is replaced by the delicate softness of age, I will still want to touch your skin. When your face is full of the lines of every smile you have ever smiled, of every surprise I have seen flash through your eyes, when every tear you have ever cried has left its mark upon your face, I will treasure you all the more, because I was there to see it all. I will share your life with you …and I will love you until the last breath leaves your body or mine. —Laurell K. Hamilton

14 Less Traditional Ways To Give Love On Valentine’s Day …or Any Day

Choose one …or a bunch!

1. Deliver candy, balloons, or cards to a local disability day care facility.
2. Give food to a local food pantry — call first to find out what their pressing needs are.
3. Go to a busy building that doesn’t have automatic doors and be the doorman/woman for 30 minutes. Smile at everyone and wish each a good day. If anyone asks why you’re doing what you’re doing, tell them, with a big smile, because it’s Valentine’s Day.
4. Deliver one or two dozen heart shaped cookies to an elderly couple or individual living in your neighborhood. Make sure you introduce yourself and get their names if you haven’t already. Also, make sure you leave a couple of really big smiles, and a compliment or two.
5. Spend 30 minutes visiting someone in a nursing home facility who doesn’t receive regular visitors. Ask the staff, they’ll let you know whom to visit. Don’t go at dinner/supper time.
6. Create or buy six Valentine cards and deliver them to a local nursing home. Write some fun, funny, or sentimental things inside. Leave them unsealed and unaddressed. Take them to the administration office or nurse station and ask if they would select six individuals and deliver them. They can add the person’s name and seal the envelope. (they’ll need to look inside envelopes from strangers — even nice strangers)
7. Deliver one or two dozen heart shaped cookies to the staff at a local DMV or post office. (or, make four dozen and combine numbers 4 and 7)
8. Tell someone that you love them — someone that you love very much, but you haven’t actually told them in quite some time.
9. Volunteer at a free meal site for a couple of hours. Usually, they can always use additional help.
10. Donate some of your valued and useful clothes to a local clothing distribution center that serves struggling individuals and families. Current season clothing is always best.
11. Smile and say hello to every person you make eye contact with for the entire day. Hold the eye contact for at least three seconds.
12. Help two people who appear to be struggling to accomplish a task (sweep, shovel, load a vehicle, etc., if you looking for the opportunity to help, you’ll find it).
13. Refrain from saying ANYTHING negative about ANY individual for the entire day — including YOURSELF.
14. Call an elderly relative or individual who has had a positive impact in your earlier life. Choose someone you haven’t talked with for some time, let them know that you were thinking of them, and are grateful for the influence they had in your life.

Note: If you partake in one or more of these love-filled gifts, they’ll be one additional love recipient …you!

Happy Valentine’s Day to all.