Love Day ♥ February 14,2012 ♥ I am love...still I dream of more ♥

Saint Valentine's Day, often simply Valentine's Day, is a holiday observed on February 14 honoring one or more early Christian martyrs named Valentinus. It was first established by Pope Gelasius I in 496 AD, and was later deleted from the General Roman Calendar of saints in 1969 by Pope Paul VI. It is celebrated in countries around the world, mostly in the West.

The day first became associated wi...th romantic love in the circle of Geoffrey Chaucer in the High Middle Ages, when the tradition of courtly love flourished. By the 15th century, it had evolved into an occasion in which lovers expressed their love for each other by presenting flowers, offering confectionery, and sending greeting cards (known as "valentines").

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Come inside
Of the heart's house.
There is peace and solace there.
~ Rumi
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You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.
~ Barbara De Angelis
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A person’s life purpose is nothing more than to rediscover, through the detours of art or love or passionate work, those one or two images in the presence of which his (or her) heart first opened.
~ Albert Camus
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Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part.
~  from the movie "A walk in the clouds."
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Lovers don't finally meet somewhere,
they're in each other all along.
~ Rumi
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The minute I heard my first love story I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.
~ Rumi
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Because when we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too."
~ Paolo Coelho
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from Mother Teresa: "I have found the paradox: that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love."
May we grow the love no matter what...
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If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love.
~ Maya Angelou

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Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself -- and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to -- letting a person be what he really is.
~ Jim Morrison
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Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.
~ Bruce Lee

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Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.
~ Rumi

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I believe that two people are connected at the heart, and it doesn't matter what you do, or who you are or where you live; there are no boundaries or barriers if two people are destined to be together.
~ Julia Roberts
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