Tuesday, February 14, 2012

I've fallen in love many times... always with you.  ~Author Unknown
Whether you prefer to share these Valentine's Day quotes in their current form, or make them a bit more personal, they're sure to be useful.
We collected the best 25 Valentine's Day sayings we could find. Feel free to share them or use them in any way to spread the love.
"Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life." -Aphra Behn
"You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams." -Dr. Seuss
"Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own." -Robert Heinlein
"The art of love... is largely the art of persistence." -Albert Ellis
"For you see, each day I love you more, today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow." -Rosemonde Gerard
"For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul." -Judy Garland
"If I could be anything in the world I would want to be a teardrop because I would be born in your eyes, live on your cheeks, and die on your lips." -Author Unknown
"Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence." -Vincent van Gogh
"A life without love is like a year without summer." -Swedish Proverb
"Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear." -John Lennon
"A true lover always feels in debt to the one he loves." -Ralph W. Sockman
"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." -Author Unknown
"Trip over love, you can get up. Fall in love and you fall forever." -Author Unknown
"Anyone can catch your eye, but it takes someone special to catch your heart." -Author Unknown
"Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs." -William Shakespeare
"Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning." -Author Unknown
"The minute I heard my first love story I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along." -Jalal ad-Din Rumi
"Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved." -Victor Hugo
"Love is the only gold." -Lord Alfred Tennyson
"To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven." -Karen Sunde
"Oh, if it be to choose and call thee mine, love, thou art every day my Valentine!" -Thomas Hood
"When love is not madness, it is not love." -Pedro Calderon de la Barca
"Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love." -Albert Einstein
"Many are the starrs I see, but in my eye no starr like thee." -English saying used on poesy rings
"Loving is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction." -Antoine de Saint-Exupery
     The hear symblolize the meaning of love. The heart looks like this: <3. The symbol of the heart is a bit more mysterious. Aristotle though the heart was the center of all emotions. Surely, everyone who has been heartbroken feels that heaviness in the center of the chest. Of course, when someone is excited, the heart beats faster. Thus, it is a natural inclination to associate heart with passion. It means warm thoughts turn to our loved one. And we show eachother our feelings for another.
     Valentine's Day stems from the Roman festival "Lupercalia". As most Roman festivals, it was a sensuous affair. Young women would place their names in a box and young men would draw the name out. The man did not need to ask for a date, plan a dinner setting or a movie. Just draw a name and off to fornicate.
The symbol of the heart is a bit more mysterious. Aristotle though the heart was the center of all emotions. Surely, everyone who has been heartbroken feels that heaviness in the center of the chest. Of course, when someone is excited, the heart beats faster. Thus, it is a natural inclination to associate heart with passion.
The problem is that the heart shape of a valentine really does not look like a heart. The origin of the heart shape must come from somewhere else. The possibilities are tantalizing.
     One of the most intriguing suggestions stems from the seventh century B.C. city-state of Cyrene. Cyrene traded the rare, now extinct, plant silphium. It was known as a means for birth control. The seedpod of the silphium looks exactly like a valentine's heart. Moreover, its use in sex is an obvious connection to love.
Truthfully, the origins of the valentine heart should end here, but what is a story without a salacious ending?
Some claim that the round, soft edges of the heart represent fertility or a female body. Since a Valentine is all about love, it is a reasonable suggestion. Visualizing the heart as a depiction of the pubic mound stirs some interesting comparisons. Some say it resembles the vulva. Others draw the resemblance to the Tantric Hindu yoni.
     However, turn the heart upside down and it becomes a particularly intriguing symbol. Now the heart looks like a pair of plump, dangling breasts. The heart also compares favorably to the female buttocks. Once again, with the heart turned upside down, and the point extending towards the vulva, the comparison is interesting.
    The upside down heart also compares favorably to the male genitalia with two testicles and a pointed penis. Others have suggested the heart image looks like the tip of the penis.
The use of an arrow to pierce the heart has strong male overtones, suggesting the heart as female and arrow as male. Furthermore, the traditional male and female suggests an accurate comparison. The male symbol has an arrow point, just as Cupid's arrow. The female symbol is rounded at the top and narrows to the bottom, just as the heart.
    The comparisons between the heart and human body are numerous. It is amazing that such an endearing image has so many possible erotic connections. Perhaps that is why it has endured for so long as such a powerful and connotative symbol.