VALENTINE MENU
The Story of St Valentine: read the story of this courageous hero, then pause for a moment to remember the meaning of true love: not necessarily romantic love, but the love which causes us to put the welfare of another before our own.
Valentine's Day Facts and Fancies: how many do you know?
Poems of Love by E B Browning: classics to be savoured
Hearts by Ann Cragg: a beautiful poem about true love
More Love Poetry: offerings by poet Sarah Hastings
A Love Letter to the World: written nearly 2000 years ago

This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess. Rainer Maria Rilke

It hurts to love someone and not be loved in return, but what is the most painful is to love someone and never find the courage to let the person know how you feel. Anonymous

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Love is a friendship set to music. E Joseph Cossmom

When the happiness of another person becomes as essential to yourself as your own, then the state of love exists. Robert Heinlein

The love we give away is the only love we keep. Elbert Hubbard

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight? Christopher Marlowe

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. Antoine de St Exupery

Love makes mutes of those who habitually speak most fluently. Madeleine de Scudery

Familiar acts are beautiful through love. Percy Bysshe Shelley

One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is love. Sophocles

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven. Karen Sunde

It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all. Wm M Thackery

Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Leo Tolstoy

Love is not getting, but giving. Henry Van Dyke

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.
David Viscott