A Portuguese Love

Two lovebirds on Valentines's Day Infantile love follows the principle: "I love because I am loved." Mature love follows the principle: "I am loved because I love." Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I love you." - Erich Fromm Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love. - Albert Einstein Love: a temporary insanity, curable by marriage. - Ambrose Bierce A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous. - Ingrid Bergman Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear. - John Lennon Have you even been in love? Horrible, isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens your heart and it means someone can get inside you...

Love is in the air Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius. - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread. - Mother Teresa Love must be as much a light as it is a flame. - Henry David Thoreau Life is the flower for which love is the honey. - Victor Hugo How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love? - Albert Einstein What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork. - Pearl Bailey Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking. It is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil, but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails. I Co...

Valentine, you and me forever The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed. - Carl Jung (1875 - 1961) Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be. - Anton Chekhov (1860 - 1904) To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead. - Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), Marriage and Morals (1929) There is no remedy for love but to love more. - Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), Journal, July 25, 1839 When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love. - J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter, and the Half-Blood Prince, 2005 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 warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring. - Oscar Wilde...

Lesbian couple kissing Valentine's Day Holiday Card by noboringwhite I am just fed up with nonsense comments on Carlos Castro's death. The story has the right amount of ingredients to make big headlines: gay men, murder, luxury environments, and sadness. Police found the beaten and castrated naked body of a 65-year-old man in a luxury suite at the Intercontinental Hotel in Times Square, maybe on the first week of this month. He was laying face-up in a pool of blood inside his 34th-floor room. He was killed by the 20-year-old companion, model Renato Seabra, who confessed. Renato had been visiting New York with Castro. He was taken into police custody and admitted to Bellevue Hospital Center for a psychiatric evaluation. Castro had covered fashion and celebrities and was a well-known gay rights advocate. Seabra had recently been a finalist on a Portuguese reality show, “Face Model of the Year.” The details of Carlos Castro’s murder are shocking and gruesome. His burial...

In the III century AD, the Roman Emperor Claudius II decreed null and void and prohibited marriages, because without family men would be easier to recruit for the fronts of the war. Valentinus violates the unjust imperial decree by performing marriages in secret. Discovering its audacity, he is arrested, tortured, and sentenced to death for violating the law. In prison, he gets messages of encouragement and flowers from people who believed in love. The daughter of his jailer, blind from birth, visited him frequently during his captivity, bringing him food. Valentine describes the world to her and speaks of God. One daylight illuminates the jail. She bursts into tears because a miracle had happened - she regained vision! With the miracle, her entire family converted to Christianity. On the eve of death, Valentinus wrote a last letter to the girl, with whom he had fallen in love, asking her not to part from God, and signed "From your Valentine". From this legend, and over ti...