A Student's Prayer

Creator of all things, true source of Light and Wisdom, lofty source of all Being, graciously let a ray of Your Brilliance penetrate into the darkness of my understanding and take from me the double darkness in which I have been born, sin and ignorance. Give me a sharp sense of understanding , a retentive memory, and the ability to grasp things correctly and fundamentally. Grant me the talent of being exact in my explanations, and the ability to express myself with thoroughness and charm. Point out the beginning, direct the progress, help in the completion. Through Christ our Lord. St. Thomas Aquinas

Saint Valentine's Day, better known as simply Valentine's Day, is the annual commemoration of love celebrated on February 14. Valentine's Day was created by Pope Gelasius I in 500 AD to honor the Christian martyrs named Valentine. The religious observance of the day was deleted by Pope Paul VI from the Roman calender of saints in 1969 but is still often permitted. Valentine's Day was first related to romantic love by Geoffrey Chaucer during the Middle Ages. Until the 19th century handwritten valentines were often given rather than modern massproduced greeting cards. Valentine's Day is often celebrated with expressions of love, and gifts of chocolates, flowers, and cards known as "valentines." Symbols of modern Valentine's Day include heart shapes, figures of winged Cupid, and doves. To celebrate the exchange of loving words to honor Valentine's Day, here are the 101 Best Valentine's Day Quotes: 1. "When love is not madness, it is not love." Pedro Calderon de la Barca

2. "Oh, if it be to choose and call thee mine, love, thou art every day my Valentine!" Thomas Hood 3. "Many are the starrs I see, but in my eye no starr like thee." English phrase on poesy rings 4. "Loving is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction." Antoine de Saint-Expuery, Wind, Sand, and Stars, 1939 5. "Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love." Albert Einstein 6. "I don't understand why Cupid was chosen to represent Valentine's Day. When I think about romance, the last thing on my mind is a short, chubby toddler coming at me with a weapon." Unknown 7. "For you see, each day I love you more Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow." Rosemonde Gerard 8. "Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end." Unknown 9. "Love - a wildly misunderstood although highly desirable malfunction of the heart which weakens the brain, causes eyes to sparkle, cheeks to glow, blood pressure to rise, and the lips to pucker." Unknown 10. "I claim there ain't Another Saint As great as Valentine." Ogden Nash 11. "Trip over love, you can get up. Fall in love and you fall forever." Unknown 12. "Anyone can catch your eye, but it takes someone special to catch your heart." Unknown 13. "A hundred hearts would be too few To carry all my love for you." Unknown 14. "You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip." Jonathan Carroll "Outside The Dog Museum" 15. "We are all a little weird and life's a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love." Unknown 16. "Must, bid the Morn awake1 Sad Winter now declines, Each bird doth choose a mate; This day's Saint Valentine's. For that good bishop's sake Get up and let us see What beauty it shall be That Fortune us assigns." Michael Drayton

17. "Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs." William Shakespeare 18. "kisses are a better fate than wisdom." e.e. cummings 19. "If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?" Unknown 20. "Who, being loved, is poor?" Oscar Wilde 21. "In melody divine, My heart it beats to rapturous love, I long to call you mine." Unknown 22. "Grow old with me! The best is yet to be." Robert Browning 23. "Without love, what are we worth? Eighty-nine cents! Eighty-nine cents worth of chemicals walking around lonely." Hawkeye, from M*A*S*H 24. "The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough." George Moore 25. "We loved with a love that was more than love." Edgar Allen Poe 26. "Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat." Ben Hecht 27. "Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity." Henry Van Dyke 28. "Are we not like two volumes of one book?" Marceline Desbordes-Valmomre 29. "A bell is no bell 'til you ring it, A song is no song 'til you sing it, And love in your heart Wasn't put there to stay Love isn't love 'Til you give it away." Oscar Hammerstein, "You Are Sixteen" from the film Sound of Music 30. "I've fallen in love many times...always with you." Unknown 31. "Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia." Judith Viorst 32. "What I need to live has been given to me by the earth. Why I need to live has been given to me by you." Unknown

33. "I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach." Elizabeth Barrett Browning 34. "When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks." Natalie Clifford Barney 35. "Take away love and our earth is a tomb." Robert Browning 36. "Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place." Zora Neale Hurston 37. "Love is a game that two can play and both win." Eva Gabor 38. "Without love, the rich and poor live in the same house." Unknown 39. "We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack." Marie Ebner Von Eschenback, Aporism 40. "I love thee - I love thee, 'Tis all that I can say It is my vision in the night, My dreaming in the day." Thomas Hood 41. "Love, and a cough, cannot be hid." George Herbert in Jacula Prudentum 1651 42. "Love unlocks doors and opens windows that weren't even there before." Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966 43. "Poetry spills from the cracks of a broken heart, but flows from one which is loved." Christopher Paul Rubero 44. "A man is not where he lives, but where he loves." Latin Proverb 45. "Tell me how many beads there are In a silver chain Of evening rain, Unraveled from the tumbling main, And threading the eye of a yellow star: So many times do I love again." Thomas Lovell Beddoes 46. "The heart has its reasons that reason knows nothing of." Blaize Pascal, Pensees, 1670 47. "True love stories never have endings." Richard Bach 48. "Nobody has ever measured, even poets, how much a heart can hold." Zelda Fitzgerald 49. "Love is missing someone whenever you're apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you're close in heart." Kay Knudsen

50. "Ah me! Love can not be cured by herbs." Ovid 51. "Soul meets soul on lovers' lips." Percy Bysshe Shelley 52. "I need the starshine of your heavenly eyes, After the day's great sun." Charles Hanson Towne 53. "Love is the silent saying and saying of a single name." Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960 54. "Love would never be a promise of a rose garden unless it is showered with light of faith, water of sincerity, and air of passion." Unknown 55. "Sometimes we make love with our eyes. Sometimes we make love with our hands. Sometimes we make love with our bodies. Always we make love with our hearts." Unknown 56. "The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love." Margaret Atwood 57. "You know when you have found your prince because you not only have a smile on your face but in your heart as well." Unknown 58. "Love puts the fun in together, the sad in apart, and the joy in a heart." Unknown 59. "Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law." Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy 60. "Candle light, moon light, star light, The brightest glow is from love light." Grey Livingston 61. "A baby is born with a need to be loved - and never outgrows it." Frank A. Clark 62. "Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly." Rose Franken 63. "Love is like dew that falls on both nettles and lilies." Swedish Proverb 64. "I love you like crazy, baby 'Cuz I'd go crazy without you." Pixie Foudre 65. "How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, an all was said." Victor Hugo 66. "It is astonishing how little one feels alone when one loves." John Bulwer 67. "Love is not singular except in syllable." Marvin Taylor

68. "They who meet on an April night are forever lost in love, if there's moonlight all about and there's no moon above." E.Y. "Yip" Harburg and Fred Saidy, dialogue just before the song "Old Devil Moon" in the musical Finian's Rainbow 69. "Love me and the world is mine." David Reed 70. "Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired." Robert Frost 71. "Love is the poetry of the senses." Honore de Balzac 72. "Come live in my heart and pay no rent." Samuel Lover 73. "True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked." Erich Segal 74. "Love is what you've been through with somebody." James Thurber 75. "Love is being stupid together." Paul Valery 76. "For twas not into my ear your whispered But into my heart. twas not my lips you kissed But my soul." Judy Garland 77. "As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words." William Shakespeare 78. "My heart to you is given; Oh, do give yours to me; We'll lock them up together, And throw away the key." Frederick Saunders 79. "Love is the greatest refreshment in life." Pablo Picasso 80. "What the world really needs is more love and less paper work." Pearl Bailey 81. "Give me a kisse, and to that kisse a score; Then to that twenty, adde a hundred more; A thousand to that hundred; so kisse on, To make that thousand up a million; Treble that million, and when that is done, Lets kiss afresh, as when we first begun." Robert Herrick, "To Anthea (III)" 82. "Falling in love is so hard on the knees." Aerosmith 83. "Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination." Voltaire

84. "The most beautiful view is the one I share with you." Unknown 85. "The mot important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them." Stephen King 86. "My whole heart for my whole life." French proverb on poesy rings 87. "Like I've always said, love wouldn't be blind if the braille weren't so damned much fun." Armistead Maupin 88. "Love is metaphysical gravity." R. Buckminster Fuller 89. "If I had a single flower for every time I think about you, I could walk forever in my garden." Claudia Ghandi 90. "Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds." William Shakespeare 91. "If I could reach up and hold a star for every time you've made me smile, the entire evening sky would be in the palm of my hand." Unknown 92. "You don't marry someone you can live with - you marry the person who you cannot live without." Unknown 93. "A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous." Ingrid Bergman 94. "True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen." La Rochefoucauld 95. "I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love." Henry Ward Beecher 96. "Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all." Saint Augustine 97. "Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition." Alexander Smith 98. "Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole." Samuel Taylor Coleridge 99. "Very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love." Stendhal 100. "There is no remedy for love but to love more." Thoreau 101. "At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet." Plato

Sometimes we make love with our eyes. Sometimes we make love with our hands. Sometimes we make love with our bodies. Always we make love with our hearts. Author Unknown Love is the flower you've got to let grow. John Lennon Love is the greatest refreshment in life. Pablo Picasso Love comforteth like sunshine after rain. William Shakespeare A bell is no bell 'til you ring it, A song is no song 'til you sing it, And love in your heart Wasnt put there to stay Love isnt love 'Til you give it away. Oscar Hammerstein The Sound of Music. A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years. Rupert Brooke Oh, if it be to choose and call thee mine, love, thou art every day my Valentine! Thomas Hood Brief is life but love is long. Alfred Lord Tennyson Come live with me, and be my love,

And we will some new pleasures prove Of golden sands, and crystal brooks, With silken lines, and silver hooks. John Donne Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. Aristotle Love is the only gold. Alfred Lord Tennyson All I really need is love, but a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt! Lucy Van Pelt In Peanuts, by Charles M. Schulz. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Leo Tolstoy I will find out where she has gone, And kiss her lips and take her hands. And pluck till time and times are done The silver apples of the moon, The golden apples of the sun. William Butler Yeats Who, being loved, is poor? Oscar Wilde I claim there ain't Another Saint As great as Valentine. Ogden Nash Do I love you because you're beautiful, or are you beautiful because I love you? Oscar Hammerstein II Prince to Cinderella. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach. Elizabeth Barrett Browning Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths, Enwrought with golden and silver light, The blue and the dim and the dark cloths Of night and light and the half-light, I would spread the cloths under your feet. William Butler Yeats Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be. Robert Browning Soul meets soul on lovers' lips. Percy Bysshe Shelley Doubt thou the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar;

But never doubt I love. William Shakespeare At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet. Plato Nobody has ever measured, even poets, how much a heart can hold. Zelda Fitzgerald For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul. Judy Garlan For, you see, each day I love you more, Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow. Rosemonde Gerard How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of Being and ideal Grace. Elizabeth Barrett Browning Without love, what are we worth? Eighty-nine cents! Eighty-nine cents worth of chemicals walking around lonely. Hawkeye in M*A*S*H I love thee with the breath, Smiles, tears, of all my life! - and if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death. Elizabeth Barrett Browning Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. William Shakespeare If I had a single flower for every time I think about you, I could walk forever in my garden. Claudia Ghandi I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me. I love you for the part of me that you bring out. Roy Croft Candle light, moon light, star light, The brightest glow is from love light. Grey Livingston Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat. Ben Hecht Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate. William Shakespeare The cure for all ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows and the crimes of humanity, all lie in the one word 'love.' It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life. Lydia Maria Child

I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes to say yes my mountain flower and first I put my arms around him yes and drew him down to me so he could feel my breasts all perfume yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes James Joyce If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you. Winnie the Pooh

#1 Famous Quotes About Love for Valentine's Day I don't understand why Cupid was chosen to represent Valentine's Day. When I think about romance, the last thing on my mind is a short, chubby toddler coming at me with a weapon. --Author Unknown #2 Famous Quotes About Love for Valentine's Day Love to me is someone telling me, "I want to be with you for the rest of my life, and if you needed me to, I'd jump out of a plane for you." ---Jennifer Lopez #3 Famous Quotes About Love for Valentine's Day Love is not finding someone to live with; it's finding someone you can't live without ---Rafael Ortiz #4 Famous Quotes About Love for Valentine's Day Sometimes we make love with our eyes. Sometimes we make love with our hands. Sometimes we make love with our bodies. Always we make love with our hearts. ---Author Unknown #5 Famous Quotes About Love for Valentine's Day Love is a game that two can play and both win by losing their heart ---Eva Gabor (1919 - 1995) #6 Famous Quotes About Love for Valentine's Day One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life. ---Khalil Gibran #7 Famous Quotes About Love for Valentine's Day We are all a little weird and life's a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love. --Author Unknown #8 Famous Quotes About Love for Valentine's Day You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip. ---Jonathan Carroll #9 Famous Quotes About Love for Valentine's Day Just because somebody doesn't love you the way you want them to, doesn't mean they don't love you with all they have. ---Author Unknown #10 Famous Quotes About Love for Valentine's Day May this Valentine's Day be filled with love, understanding, and contentment as you journey through life with those you hold dear ---Darly Henerson