February Love Greeting

The Messages

Here are the messages that go inside the capsules. You can download a PDF file with the messages nicely arranged, print them out on this page, or copy the text from this page and paste it into your favorite word-processing program. (Downloading requires Adobe Acrobat software.)

The little unremembered acts of kindness and love are the best of a good man's life. -- William Wordsworth

Love one another, but make no bond of love; Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your soul. -- Kahlil Gibran

Juliet: My bounty is as boundless as the sea, My love as deep; the more I give to thee, The more I have, for both are infinite. -- William Shakespeare

Our love must not be a thing of words and fine talk. It must be a thing of action and sincerity. -- 1 John 3:18

What a man takes in by contemplation, that he pours out in love. -- Meister Eckehart

Love is fruit in season at all times, and within the reach of every hand. -- Mother Teresa

Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. -- 1 Corinthians 13

The only way to speak the truth is to speak lovingly. -- Henry David Thoreau

And when Love speaks, the voice of all the gods makes heaven drowsy with the harmony. -- William Shakespeare

Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. -- Saint Bernard

I love thee with the breath Smiles, tears, of all my life! -- and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death. -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Familiar acts are beautiful through love. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley

Loving means to love that which is unlovable, or it is no virtue at all. -- G. K. Chesterton

Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, Do good to them that hate you. -- The Gospel of St. Matthew

Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, Attempts what is above its strength. -- Thomas a Kempis

All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. -- Leo Tolstoy

There is a land of the living and a land of the dead, and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning. -- Thorton Wilder

Come live with me and be my love, And we will all the pleasures prove. -- Christopher Marlowe

Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup, And I'll not look for wine. -- Ben Johnson

But true love is a durable fire In the mind ever burning; Never sick, never dead, From itself never turning. -- Anonymous