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Quotes of the Day for 14 February 2005 - Saint Valentine's Day

I've never been much on Valentine's Day observations, but the day has ended up being very meaningful anyway. Twenty years ago today I turned to a wonderful lady I cared for and suggested that she might consider changing her name. Having less sense than affection, she agreed. We're both older and heavier, and we don't act like giddy kids, but our affection and commitment have grown strong and deep. Life is still difficult at times, but it would be far more difficult without this love. I'm still not going to buy a Valentine's Day card!

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
     - Clive Staples Lewis, The Four Loves

We should measure affection, not like youngsters by the ardor of its passion, but by its strength and constancy.
     - Marcus Tullius Cicero, 106 - 43 BC

The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain, to show them that we love them, not when we feel like it, but when they do.
     - Nan Fairbrother, 1913 - 1971

The fear of making permanent commitments can change the mutual love of husband and wife into two loves of self—two loves existing side by side, until they end in separation.
     - Pope John Paul II

True love isn't so much a dreamy feeling that you have as it is an enduring commitment to give sacrificially - even, or perhaps especially, when you don't feel like it.
     - William R. Mattox, Jr.

It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.
     - Christian Nevell Bovee, 1820 - 1904

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