A history of love
Love. What a small word we use for an idea so immense and powerful it has altered the flow of history, calmed monsters, kindled works of art, cheered the forlorn,…
Other Readings
A marriage
You are holding up a ceiling with both arms. It is very heavy, but you must hold it up, or else it will fall down on you. Your arms are tired, terribly tired, and,…
Apache marriage blessing
Now you will feel no rain, for each of you will be the shelter for each other. Now you will feel no cold, for each of you will be the warmth for the other. Now you…
Blessing for a marriage
May your marriage bring you all the exquisite excitements a marriage should bring, and may life grant you also patience, tolerance, and understanding. May you…
Cherokee prayer
God in heaven above please protect the ones we love. We honor all you created as we pledge our hearts and lives together. We honor mother-earth – and ask for our…
Eskimo love song
You are my husband My feet shall run because of you My feet dance because of you My heart shall beat because of you My eyes see because of you My mind thinks…
Excerpt from "a song for hiawatha"
Come join us in celebration, those who love sunshine on meadow Who love shadow of the forest, love the wind among the branches and the palacades of pine trees, and…
Excerpt from "The Gift from the Sea"
~ By Anne Morrow Lindbergh ~ When you love someone, you do not love them all the time, in exactly the same way, from moment to moment. It is an impossibility. It is…
Excerpt from "the prophet"
~ By Kahlil Gilbran ~ Your friend is your needs answered. He is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving. And he is your board and your…
Excerpt from the Velveteen Rabbit
~ By Margery Williams ~ “What is REAL?” asked the Rabbit one day, when they were lying side by side near the nursery fender, before Nana came to tidy the room.…
Excerpt from Tuesdays with Morrie
~ By Mitch Albom ~ “Still,” Morrie said, “there are a few rules I know to be true about love and marriage: If you don’t respect the other person, you’re gonna have…
Foundations of marriage
Love, trust, and forgiveness are the foundations of marriage. In marriage, many days will bring happiness, while other days may be sad. But together, two hearts can…
I ching
~ Excerpt ~ When two people are at one in their inmost hearts, they shatter even the strength of iron or bronze. And when two people understand each other in their…
I love you for what you are...
TITLE UNKNOWN ~ By Carl Sandburg ~ I love you for what you are, but I love you yet more for what you are going to be. I love you not so much for your realities as…
I Promise
to give you the best of myself and to ask of you no more than you can give. I promise to respect you as your own person and to realise that your interests, desires…
Letters
Marriage is in many ways a simplification of life, and it naturally combines the strengths and wills of two young people so that, together, they seem to reach…
Love
is a friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad. It settles for less…
Love is a great thing
yea, a great and thorough good, By itself it makes that is heavy light; And it bears evenly all that is uneven. It carries a burden which is no burden; it will not…
Marriage joins two people in the circle of its love
Marriage is a commitment to life, the best that two people can find and bring out in each other. It offers opportunities for sharing and growth that no other…
Never marry but for love
but see that thou lovest what is lovely. If love be not the chiefest motive, thou wilt soon grow weary of a married state and stray from thy promise, to search out…
On love
Love is a mighty power, a great and complete good. Love alone lightens every burden, and makes rough places smooth. It bears every hardship as though it were…
On marriage
From The Prophet ~ By Kahlil Gibran ~ You were born together, and together you shall be forevermore. You shall be together when the white wings of death scatter…
Sound of Silence
Here in the space between us and the world lies human meaning. Into the vast uncertainty we call. The echoes make our music, sharp equations which can hold the…
Speak to us of Love
From The Prophet ~ By Kahlil Gilbran ~ Then said Almitra, Speak to us of Love. And he raised his head and looked upon the people, and there fell a stillness upon…
The art of marriage
~ Author Wilferd A. Peterson ~The little things are the big things. It is never being too old to hold hands. It is remembering to say “I love you” at least once a…
The Bridge Across Forever
Excerpt from The Bridge Across Forever ~ Richard Bach ~ A soulmate is someone who has locks that fit our keys, and keys to fit our locks. When we feel safe enough…
The country of marriage
EXCERPT FROM “ THE COUNTRY OF MARRIAGE “ ~ By Wendell Berry ~ “…our life reminds me of a forest in which there is a graceful clearing and in that opening a house,…
The most wonderful of all things in life
is the discovery of another human being with whom one’s relationship has a growing depth, beauty and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of love…
The Symposium
Our original nature was by no means the same as it is now. There was a kind composed of both sexes and sharing equally in male and female. The form of each person…
Treat yourselves and each other with respect...
UNTITLED ~ Author Unknown ~ Treat yourselves and each other with respect, and remind yourselves often of what brought you together. Give the highest priority to the…