SUNDAY FUNDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 2025

 SUNDAY FUNDAY

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

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One of my favorite poems - Elizabeth Barret Browning:

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.

I love thee to the level of every day’s

Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light.

I love thee freely, as men strive for right.

I love thee purely, as they turn from praise.

I love thee with the passion put to use

In my old griefs, and with my childhood’s faith.

I love thee with a love I seemed to lose

With my lost saints. I love thee with the breath,

Smiles, tears, of all my life; and, if God choose,

I shall but love thee better after death.

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Some (almost funny) valentines quotes:

“Valentine, just a few words to tell you how I love you. I have loved you since the first day I saw you. Whenever that was.” ― Charles M. Schulz

"I wanted to make it really special on Valentine's Day, so I tied my boyfriend up. And for three solid hours, I watched whatever I wanted on TV." — Tracy Smith (Just give me the remote - and nobody will be hurt!!!)

"Valentine's Day: the holiday that reminds you that if you don't have a special someone, you're alone." —Lewis Black

"To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia." — H. L. Mencken

"Valentine’s Day is when a lot of married men are reminded what a poor shot Cupid really is." —Anonymous

“Love is a lot like a backache; it doesn’t show up on x-rays, but you know it’s there.” — George Burns (George and Gracie were married for 38 years until her death)

“Would I rather be feared or loved? Umm… easy, both. I want people to be afraid of how much they love me.” — Michael Scott, The Office

“The thing about Valentine’s Day is that people discover who are single and who to feel jealous of.” — Faye Morgan

“You can’t buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.” — Henny Youngman (Yup - can’t buy me love isn’t really true, is it???)♥️♥️

“Without Valentine’s Day, February would be…well, January.” — Jim Gaffigan

“If you text ‘I love you’ to a person and the person writes back an emoji – no matter what that emoji, they don’t love you back.” — Chelsea Peretti  (♥️🥰♥️)

“Remember, your Valentine’s card shows you care enough to send the very best, even though you’re too lazy to put it in your own words.” — Melanie White (Ah yes, thank you, Hallmark cards - and Hallmark Channel)

“The secret to a long marriage is to stay gone.” — Dolly Parton (On the road again …)

“I didn’t fall for you. You tripped me!” — Jenny Han (Hmmm - might be true?♥️)

"Real love amounts to withholding the truth, even when you're offered the perfect opportunity to hurt someone's feelings." — David Sedaris

“You’re never alone on Valentine’s Day if you’re near a lake and have bread.” — Mike Primavera  (Mike, I think you missed the concept of love and Valentine’s Day)

“A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.” — Friedrich Nietzsche (Oh my -  But, I thought “Love was Blind”♥️!!)

“It wasn’t love at first sight. It took a full five minutes.” — Lucille Ball

“A guy knows he’s in love when he loses interest in his car for a couple of days.” — Tim Allen  (Tim “the tool man” Allen)

“A man’s main job is to protect his woman from her desire to ‘get bangs’ every other month.” — Dax Shepard (I’d prefer not to have bangs - )

“Can officially confirm that the way to a man’s heart these days is not through beauty, food, sex, or alluringness of character, but merely the ability to seem not very interested in him.” — Bridget Jones's Diary

"It is not love that makes a relationship complicated; it’s the people in it who do." — Unknown

"Love is being stupid together." — Paul Valery  (Yup - ♥️♥️)

"Honesty is the key to a relationship. If you can fake that, you’re in." — Richard Jeni

"Where there is love, there is life." —Mahatma Gandhi  (Yes, that might be the truest thing on this list!! ♥️)

"Love planted a rose, and the world turned sweet." —Katharine Lee Bates

"Two hearts in love need no words." —Marceline Desbordes-Valmore

"Love recognizes no barriers. ... "

"If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk through my garden forever."  (What a sweet thought!!  ♥️)...

"There is no remedy for love but to love more." ...

"All you need is love. …(How could the Beatles make a hit out of one line?)

"Your love is like a melody for my heart, and I want to listen to it forever." ...

"In you, I've found the love of my life and my closest, truest friend." …

"Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the gods." ...

"Every love story is beautiful, but ours is my favorite." ...

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YES - VALENTINE’S DAY - Named for St. Valentine, who married young couples at a time when the Emperor wanted men to remain single and be in the military - and that landed him in jail - where he still married couples)♥️
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And from Sir Paul McCartney:
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To all readers of this blog, I do love you. ♥️♥️

And, finally:

 Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged. It does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out. Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.  ♥️♥️♥️

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LOVE WINS!!!

Karen Anne White, February 16, 2025