Today is Valentine’s Day.
Here are some thoughts other people have had on the subject of love and, occasionally, Valentine’s Day, looking at it from different angles.
We will start by going back a long ways, all the way back to Aristotle, who wrote, “Love is composed of a single soul occupying two bodies.”
If you want to confuse the person you’re addressing your Valentine’s sentiment to, how about this line from the movie No Strings Attached: “You give me premature ventricular contractions: You make my heart skip a beat.”
Now tell me, who could resist a line like that?
Jodi Picoult summed up loving someone quite nicely: “You don’t love someone because they’re perfect; you love them in spite of the fact that they aren’t.”
If you’re looking for a way to see whether the person you’re interested in is the right one for you, comedian and actor Will Ferrll has a simple test: “Before you marry a person, you should make them use a computer with slow internet to see who they really are.”
And you can always trust Jimmy Fallon to look at Valentine’s Day in a slightly different manner: “Let’s take pictures of our internal organs and give them to other people we love on Valentine’s Day. That’s not weird at all.”
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, had a very romantic way of looking at things: “If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk through my garden forever.”
Franklin P. Jones, an American author and columnist in the mid 20th century, summed it up nicely (and also put the lie to another popular phrase): “Love doesn’t make the world go ‘round. Love is what makes the trip worthwhile.”
And who would have thought Dr. Seuss could be this romantic: “You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
Finally, a man who\o sums up my feelings on the matter of love perfectly. Charles Schulz, the creator of the comic strip Peanuts, wrote: “All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.”