Pastor A

I’ve collected a number of quotes that I have been saving to use for this special day. Shelli and I were married 25 years ago today in Fairfield, California. Our life together has been a fabulous journey… the trials along the way have made us stronger and able to navigate troubled waters. Whether cancer, death, relationship challenges, children, finances, etc., each challenge has ultimately strengthened us. I love Shelli more today than on August 8, 1987. I can truly say that I did not understand the word “love” when we were first married. Today, I have a greater understanding and appreciation of this word. I have a special day planned for Shelli today… I hope all goes well!

Here are the quotes and thoughts that I’ve been looking forward to sharing:

• The development of a really good marriage is not a natural process. It is an achievement – David and Vera Mace
• Marriage is the perfection of what love aimed at, ignorant of what it sought – Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away – Elbert Hubbard
• Married couples who love each other tell each other a thousand things without talking – Chinese Proverb
• One man by himself is nothing. Two people who belong together make a world – Hans Margolius
• The Japanese have a word for it. It’s Judo – the art of conquering by yielding. The Western equivalent of judo is, ‘Yes, dear’ – J. P. McEvoy
• Our anniversary is a time to look back at the good times and a time to look ahead to live our dreams together.
• A successful married life requires falling in love many times, but always with the same person.
• Love is there when both persons are more concerned for the other than for one’s self.
• If I had a single flower for every time I think about you, I could walk forever in my garden.
• Sometimes, when only one person is missing, the whole world seems desolated
• Love is the best refreshment in life.
• No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married for quarter of a century.
• The secret to having a good married life is to understand that marriage must be total, it must be permanent and it must be equal.
• It doesn’t matter where you go in life, what you do ….. it’s who you have beside you.
• We have changed over the years, but the sparkle in your eyes is as bright as ever, and my love for you is even stronger.
• The difficulty with married life is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.
• Love begins in a moment, grows over time, and lasts for eternity.
• Are we not like two volumes of single book ?
• In trying to get our own way, we should remember that kisses are sweeter than whine.  – Author Unknown
• I think we dream so we don’t have to be apart so long.  If we’re in each other’s dreams, we can play together all night.  – Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes
• Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.  – George Bernard Shaw
• Love puts the fun in together, the sad in apart, and the joy in a heart. 
  - Author Unknown
• Once a man has won a woman’s love, the love is his forever.  He can only lose the woman.  – Robert Brault
• Men love because they are afraid of themselves, afraid of the loneliness that lives in them, and need someone in whom they can lose themselves as smoke loses itself in the sky.  – V.F. Calverton
• Lust fades, so you’d better be with someone who can stand you.  – Alan Zweibel and Jessie Nelson, The Story of Us
• Ah! a blessing beyond all fate My sole mate ’tis my soul mate. – Pixie Foudre
• Our wedding was many years ago.  The celebration continues to this day. 
  - Gene Perret
• A kiss is just a pleasant reminder that two heads are better than one.  – Author Unknown
• Happiness is like a kiss – it feels best when you give it to someone else. 
  - Author Unknown
• Love is missing someone whenever you’re apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you’re close in heart.  – Kay Knudsen
• Love would never be a promise of a rose garden unless it is showered with light of faith, water of sincerity and air of passion.  – Author Unknown
• To the world you might be one person, but to one person you might be the world.  – Author Unknown