Aforismeja, mietteitä, runoja yms. englanniksi

[Heather]

Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination. Voltaire

All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. L. Tolstoy

There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved. G. Sands

True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.

A. de Saint-Exupery

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet. Plato

A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.  Stendhal

Love is friendship set on fire. J. Taylor

Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.  

S. Johnson

If I know what love is, it is because of you. H. Hesse

The love we give away is the only love we keep.  E. Hubbard

The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved. V. Hugo

Love doesn’t make the world go ‘round. Love makes the ride worthwhile. F.P.Jones

We love because it's the only true adventure.  N. Giovanni

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love. Goethe

Where there is love there is life.  Gandhi

I love you, not only for what you are, But for what I am when I am with you. R. Croft

I carry your heart...I carry it in my heart. E.E. Cummings

Your only treasures are those which you carry in your heart. Demophilus

In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities. J. Arany

Love is the poetry of the senses. H. de Balzac

Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me. S. Bernhardt

The heart has reasons that reason does not understand.

J. B. Bossuel

But to see her was to love her. Love but her, and love forever. R. Burns

Where there is great love, there are always miracles.

W. Cather

We are each of us angels with only one wing. And we can only fly embracing each other. L.  de Crescenzo

Perfect love is rare indeed - for to be a lover will require that you continually have the subtlety of the very wise, the flexibility of the child, the sensitivity of the artist,

the understanding of the philosopher, the acceptance of the saint,the tolerance of the scholar and the fortitude of the certain. L. Buscaglia

In our life there is a single color, as on an artist`s palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love. Chagall

For it was not into my ear you whispered But into my heart, It was not my lips you kissed, But my soul. J Garland

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others. Van Gogh

Love does not just sit there, like a stone; it had to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.Le Guin

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. R.H. Heinlein

The best and most beautiful things cannot be seen or touched. They must be felt with the heart. H Keller

Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire.

La Rouchefoucauld

One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it... and the journey is always towards the other soul. D.H.Lawrence

We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to help us through the never ending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to comfort us along the way.  M F Lupus

Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists.... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence. Goncourt

This was love at first sight, love everlasting: a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected--in so far as it could be a matter of conscious awareness; it took entire possession of him, and he understood, with joyous amazement, that this was for life. T Mann

For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation. R. M. Rilke

Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see each other whole against the sky.  R.M.Rilke.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring.  Wilde

May the fires of your love

keep you happy and warm;

May the strength of your love

keep you safe from all harm.

May the light of your love

guide your pathways together.

May the joy of your love

keep you happy forever.

Author: Unknown

edit. Yhdistin kaksi ketjua. -Trio-

Muokattu: March 2, 2008, käyttäjä: Trio

[Heather]

Art of Marriage

The little things are the big things.

It is never being too old to hold hands.

It is remembering to say "I love you" at least once a day.

It is never going to sleep angry.

It is at no time taking the other for granted;

the courtship should not end with the honeymoon,

it should continue through all the years.

It is having a mutual sense of values and common objectives.

It is standing together facing the world.

It is forming a circle of love that gathers in the whole family.

It is doing things for each other, not in the attitude

of duty or sacrifice, but in the spirit of joy.

It is speaking words of appreciation and demonstrating gratitude in thoughtful ways.

It is not expecting the husband to wear a halo or the wife to have wings of an

angel.

It is not looking for perfection in each other.

It is cultivating flexibility, patience, understanding and a sense of humor.

It is having the capacity to forgive and forget.

It is giving each other an atmosphere in which each can grow.

It is finding room for the things of the spirit.

It is a common search for the good and the beautiful.

It is establishing a relationship in which the independence is equal, dependence is mutual and the obligation is reciprocal.

It is not only marrying the right partner,  it is being the right partner.

[Heather]

Celtic Wedding Vow

"You cannot possess me for I belong to myself

But while we both wish it, I give you that which is mine to give

You cannot command me, for I am a free person

But I shall serve you in those ways you require

and the honeycomb will taste sweeter coming from my hand"

"I pledge to you that yours will be the name I cry aloud in the night and the eyes into which I smile in the morning

I pledge to you the first bite of my meat and the first drink from my cup

I pledge to you my living and my dying, each equally in your care

I shall be a shield for your back and you for mine

I shall not slander you, nor you me

I shall honor you above all others, and when we quarrel we shall do so in private and tell no strangers our grievances"

"This is my wedding vow to you

This is the marriage of equals."

-- Morgan Llywelyn, Celtic Wedding Vow

[Heather]

Apache Wedding Prayer

Now you will feel no rain, for each of you will be the shelter for each other.

Now you will feel no cold, for each of you will be the warmth for the other.

Now you are two persons, but there is only one life before.

Go now to your dwelling to enter into the days of your life together.

And may your days be good and long upon the earth.

[Mustikka75]

Hei,

onko kenelläkään varastossa kivaa rakkausrunoa kutsukorttiin englanninkielellä?

Saisi olla semmoinen vähän pidempi. Se tulee siihen kutsun etusivulle. Voisi kertoa vaikka siitä kuinka me rakastuttiin ja kuinka avioliitolla sen meinaamme sinetöidä. Tai kaikki kelpaa. Voi olla esim. jonkun klassikko jenkkilaulajan biisistäkin.

Suomalaiset kutsut ovat valmiina jo, mutta nuo USAn kutsut vielä puolivalmiina odottelevat tuossa pöydällä.

[menna]

Nämä ovat aikas pitkiä, mutta ainahan voi ottaa vaikka pätkän(lihavoin yhden kauniin kohdan esimerkiksi):

Love Can Move Mountains

There ain't a dream that don't have a chance

To come true now

It just takes a little faith baby

Anything that we want to do

We can do now

There ain't nothing in our way baby

Nothing our love couldn't rise above

We can get through the night

We can get to the light

Long as we got our love to light the way

With a little faith

Just a little trust

If you believe in love

Love can move mountains

Believe in your heart

And feel, feel it in your soul

And love baby love can love can move mountains

Oceans deep and mountains high

They can't stop us

Because love is on our side baby

We can reach the heavens and touch the sky

Just believe it, believe in you and I baby

If we got love that is strong enough

We can do anything, make it through anything

'Coz through it all love will always find a way

With a little faith...

You believe in me

I'll believe in you

If we believe in each other

Nothing we can't do

If we got love that is strong enough

Love will find a way

With a little faith

From This Moment by Shania Twain

From this moment life has begun

From this moment you are the one

Right beside you is where I belong

From this moment on

From this moment I have been blessed

I live only for your happiness

And for your love, I'd give my last breath

From this moment on

I give my hand to you with all my heart

Can't wait to live my life with you

Can't wait to start

You and I will never be apart

My dreams came true because of you

From this moment as long as I live

I will love you, I promise you this

There is nothing I wouldn't give

From this moment on

You're the reason I believe in love

And you're the answer to my prayers from up above

All we need is just the two of us

My dreams came true because of you

From this moment as long as I live

I will love you, I promise you this

There is nothing, I would not give

From this moment on

I will love you as long as I live

From this moment on

Ja lopuksi Elvistä:

Today, Tomorrow and Forever

(Words & music by Giant - Baum - Kaye)

I give, give you my heart

Today, tomorrow and forever

You'll always be my love

I vow we'll never part

Today, tomorrow and forever

Long as there's stars above

The cares of life will fade away

As long as we're together

So stay, stay in my arms

Today, tomorrow and forever

You'll always be my love

I give, give you my heart

Today, tomorrow and forever

You'll always be my love

The cares of life will fade away

As long as we're together

So stay, stay in my arms

Today, tomorrow and forever

You'll always be my love

You'll always be my love

[Miss_Piggy]

Meillä lukee kutsun ensimmäisellä sisäsivulla (siis varsinaisen kutsutekstin vieressä) lyhyesti ja ytimekkäästi tämä:

To have and to hold,

From this day forward,

For better, For worse,

For richer, For poorer,

In sickness and in health,

To love and to cherish,

Till death do us part.

[Rosmariini]

Tässä vielä muutama jota en mielestäni nähnyt aiemmissa viesteissä:

I love you enough to let you run and far foo much to let you fly.

On this day I marry my best friend;

the one I laugh with,

live for dream with,

love . . .

A Promise once spoken

for all time unbroken

A lifetime together -

Love’ s time is forever ...

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

To keep your marriage brimming,

With love in the loving cup,

Whenever you’re wrong, admit it;

Whenever you’re right, shut up.

The great secret of successful marriage

is to treat all disasters as incidents

and none of the incidents as disasters.

Ja tässä mun oma suosikkiruno:

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.

-Elizabeth Barrett Browning

[Sparkles]

Tässä vielä lisää omasta kokoelmastani:

What lies behind us, and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

(Ralph Waldo Emerson)

To be in love is merely to be in a state of perpetual anesthesia: to mistake an ordinary young man for a Greek god or an ordinary young woman for a goddess.  (H.L. Mencken)

A heart that loves is always young.  (A Greek Proverb)

And think not you can direct the course of love.

For love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.

(Kahlil Gibran)

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature

to stop speech when words become superfluous.

(Ingrid Bergman)

You may only be one person to the world

but you may be the world to one person.

The courses of true love never did run smooth.

(Shakespeare)

The best feelings are those that have no words to describe them.

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength,

while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

(Lao Tzu)

It is the things in common

that make relationships enjoyable,

but it is the little differences

that make them interesting.

(Todd Ruthman)

So dear I love him that with him,

All deaths I could endure.

Without him, live no life.

(Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet)

Love is the shortest distance between hearts.

Distance between two hearts is not an obstacle;

rather a great reminder of just how strong true love can be.

God how beautiful you looked tonight on the phone

(Sacha Guiltry)

Love doesn't make the world go 'round.

Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.

(Franklin P. Jones)

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.

What is essential is invisible to the eye.

(Antoine de Saint-Exupery)

With love and patience,

nothing is impossible.

(Daisaku Ikeda)

When you realize you want to

spend the rest of your life with

someone, you want rest of your life

to begin as soon as possible.

(When Harry met Sally -movie)

A man is not where he lives,

but where he loves.

(Latin proverb)

All you need is love.

(John Lennon)

If you love somebody, let them go. If they return, they were always yours.

If hey don't, they never were.

Love builds bridges where there are none.

(R. H. Delaney)

Nunc scio quit sit amor. (Latin)

Now I know what love is.  

You'll never know how deep love goes till it's time to say goodbye. (Constance Russell)

Love can make a summer fly and a night seem like forever.

Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Others stay for a while and leave footprints on our hearts and we are never ever the same.

Love comforts, like sunshine after rain.

(Shakespeare)

The world is full of beauty

when the heart is full of love.

(W. L. Smith )

There is no long distance about love, it always finds a way to bring hearts together no matter how many miles there are between them.

To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.  (Mark Twain)

You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

(Henry Drummond)

[chick]

Taalta loytyy lisaa

http://www.foreverwed2.com/Religious_Ceremonies/Poems.html

http://www.documentsanddesigns.com/verse/V...ove_Poems_1.htm

http://www.no-problem-marriage-counseling....ge-poems-1.html  (hauska paikka loytaa haaaforismeja...)

[Guest VL]

Some love one, some love two. But i love one, and that is you.

[Guest moi vaaa 8DD]

Roses are red, Violets are blue, sugar is sweet, and so are you )

[RunawayBride]

Tää on ihana. Ilmeisesti laulusta Darling I do.

I know pleny' of people with eyes closed

They don't see you like I do

Darling I do