As I researched quotes on the subject of Love for this month's theme quote, I found so many that fit the topic that I could not choose just one. Below are six of my favorites, followed by a link to an abundance of others. Enjoy!

I truly feel that there are as many ways of loving as there are people in the world and as there are days in the life of those people.
- Mary S. Calderone

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.
- Ranier Maria Rilke

Love is a choice you make from moment to moment.
- Barbara de Angelis

The heart has its reasons which reason knows not of.
- Blaise Pascal

I don't pretend to know what love is for everyone, but I can tell you what it is for me; love is knowing all about someone, and still wanting to be with them more than any other person, love is trusting them enough to tell them everything about yourself, including the things you might be ashamed of, love is feeling comfortable and safe with someone, but still getting weak knees when they walk into a room and smile at you.
- Author Unknown/ThinkExist.com

That Love is all there is,
Is all we know of Love.
- Emily Dickinson

Sanskrit has ninety-six words for love; ancient Persian has eighty; Greek three; and English simply one.
- Robert Johnson, The Fisher King and The Handless Maiden

Although for most people Valentines Day tends to symbolize the celebration of romantic love, there are actually many kinds of love celebrated on that day. Consider the array of Valentines Day cards available in most card stores: cards to lovers, spouses, parents, children, extended family, friends, colleagues, caregivers, teachers, and more.

In the Greek language, there are actually four primary words for love:

• Eros - passionate love with sensual desire and longing. Romantic or erotic love, with or without sexual expression.
• Agape - unconditional love, sometimes extended to all humankind.
• Philia (also filia) - affectionate, loyal, non- sexual love, friendship.
• Storge - the natural affection that parents have for their children.

The point here is that there are many kinds of love. And just as there are "many paths to Rome", so too are there many paths to love - to an opening of the heart, to the release of that very special kind of energy that floods us with feelings of aliveness and well- being and that connects us to our self, to others, and to the Divine.

Let us broaden our concept of Valentines Day to include a celebration of Love in all its myriad and wondrous forms and expressions. Let Valentines Day, and this whole Month of Love, open our hearts to all 96 or 80 or 4 kinds of Love. And may the spirit of this day and month last all year long!

In the spirit of Robert Fulgham's wonderful book, All I Really Need to Know, I Learned in Kindergarten, I have put together a list of what I know about Love (so far):

• Love means playing nice in the sandbox.
• Love means sharing your toys.
• Even though you love someone, you might argue sometimes, but you kiss and make up quickly and go back to playing.
• Love means lots of hugs and kisses (XOXOXO),
• Love means trusting someone else with your secrets (and keeping theirs).
• Love means being brave and letting go of fear.
• Love means being yourself and letting the other person be himself or herself.
• Love means wanting the best for the other person, even if it's not what you want for yourself.
• Love means you watch each other's back.

You'd think that people would have had enough of silly love songs.
But I look around me and I see it isn't so.
Some people wanna fill the world with silly love songs.
And what's wrong with that?
I'd like to know...
- Paul McCartney

For those of you who enjoy love songs - silly or not - these songs are for you. All are performed on YouTube.

Love Is All You Need - Beattles

The Greatest Love of All - George Benson

Love is All - Yanni

Give a Lil'l Love - Bob Sinclair

The Rose - Bette Middler

'Tis the Season of Love and a season for reading and reflection. Here are ten books on the subject of love, in a variety of genres, including fiction, memoir, poetry, philosophy, and self-help. Enjoy!

• Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia - Elizabeth Gilbert
• Getting the Love You Want: A Guide for Couples - Harville Hendrix
• I Love You. Now What?: Falling in Love is a Mystery, Keeping It Isn't - Mabel Iam
• Keeping the Love You Find: A Guide for Singles - Harville Hendrix
• Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
• Love Is Letting Go of Fear - Gerald G. Jampolsky
• Loving Your Partner Without Losing Your Self - Martha Beveridge
• 10,000 Ways to Say I Love You - Gregory Godek
• The Mastery of Love - Don Miguel Ruiz
• The 100 Best Love Poems of All Time - Leslie Pockell

What are your favorite books on Love - fiction or non- fiction? Suggestions welcome.

Whenever you think that the obstacles to love and connection seem too big to overcome, think about this story about a devoted friendship between a kitten and a crow.

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