Kiss

“Love seeks one thing only: the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves. Love, therefore, is its own reward.”
― Thomas Merton

Coupled

“Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone – we find it with another.”
― Thomas Merton

Orchids

“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.”

Music

“This one moment when you know you’re not a sad story. You are alive, and you stand up and see the lights on the buildings and everything that makes you wonder. And you’re listening to that song and that drive with the people you love most in this world. And in this moment I swear, we are infinite.”
― Stephen Chbosky

Location

“The fire. The odor of burning juniper is the sweetest fragrance on the face of the earth, in my honest judgment; I doubt if all the smoking censers of Dante’s paradise could equal it. One breath of juniper smoke, like the perfume of sagebrush after rain, evokes in magical catalysis, like certain music, the space and light and clarity and piercing strangeness of the American West. Long may it burn.”
― Edward Abbey

Something Borrowed, Something Blue

“Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

Rings

“May the Sun bring you new energy by day. May the Moon softly restore you by night. May the Rain wash away your worries. May the Breeze blow new strength into your being. May you walk gently through the world and know its beauty all the days of your life.” —Apache Blessing

Mr. and Mrs. Meyer

“Before we met, you and I were halves unjoined except in the wide

rivers of our minds.  We were each other’s distant shore, the

opposite wings of a bird, the other half of a seashell.  We did not

know the other then, did not know our determination to keep alive

the cry of one riverbank to the other.  We were apart, yet connected

in our ignorance of each other, like two apples sharing a common

tree.  Remember?

I knew you existed long before you understood my desire to join my

freedom to yours.  Our paths collided long enough for our indecision

to be swallowed up by the greater need of love.  When you came to me,

the sun surged towards the earth and moon escaped from darkness to

bless the union of two spirits, so alike that the creator had designed them

for life’s endless circle.  Beloved partner, keeper of my heart’s odd secrets,

clothed in summer blossoms so the icy hand of winter never touches us.

I thank your patience.  Our joining is like a tree to earth,

a cloud to sky and even more.  We are the reason the world can laugh

on its battlefields and rise from the ashes of its selfishness to hear me say,

in this time, this place, this way – I loved you best of all.”   –Pueblo Indian Reading

Native Heart

“There is a road in the hearts of all of us, hidden and seldom traveled,
which leads to an unknown, secret place.
The old people came literally to love the soil,
and they sat or reclined on the ground with a feeling of
being close to a mothering power.
Their teepees were built upon the earth
and their altars were made of earth.
The soul was soothing, strengthening, cleansing and healing.
That is why the old Indian still sits upon the earth instead of
propping himself up and away from its life giving forces.
For him, to sit or lie upon the ground is to be able to think more deeply
and to feel more keenly. He can see more clearly into the mysteries of
life and come closer in kinship to other lives about him.”
– Chief Luther Standing Bear

Mitch and Jeanette Get Married

“Love–the most wonderful and most terrible thing in the world.”
― Jorge Amado