A history of love
By Diane Ackerman Love. What a small word we use for an idea so immense and powerful it has altered the flow of history, calmed monsters, kindled…
Other Readings
A marriage
By Michael Blumenthal 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…
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…
Blessing for a marriage
~ James Dillet Freeman ~ May your marriage bring you all the exquisite excitements a marriage should bring, and may life grant you also patience,…
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…
Eskimo love song
~ Author Unknown ~ 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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
Foundations of marriage
by Regina Hill Love, trust, and forgiveness are the foundations of marriage. In marriage, many days will bring happiness, while other days may be…
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…
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…
I Promise
~ Dorothy Colgan ~ 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…
Letters
~ By Rainer Maria Rilke ~ Marriage is in many ways a simplification of life, and it naturally combines the strengths and wills of two young people so…
Love
~ Author Unknown ~ Love is a friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty…
Love is a great thing
~ By Thomas a Kempris ~ 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…
Marriage joins two people in the circle of its love
~ By Edmund O’Neill ~ Marriage is a commitment to life, the best that two people can find and bring out in each other. It offers opportunities for…
Never marry but for love
~ William Penn ~ 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…
On love
~ By Thomas Kempis ~ Love is a mighty power, a great and complete good. Love alone lightens every burden, and makes rough places smooth. It bears…
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…
Sound of Silence
~ By Raymond J. Baughan ~ Here in the space between us and the world lies human meaning. Into the vast uncertainty we call. The echoes make our…
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…