"You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams." --Theodor Geisel, 'Dr. Seuss' Watch video
Some thoughts on love ....
"I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best."
--Marilyn Monroe
"You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams."
--Theodor Geisel, 'Dr. Seuss'
"Love is" comics were created by New Zealand cartoonist Kim Casili in the 1960s, and began appearing in newspapers in the U.S. in 1970. "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." - Friedrich Nietzsche
"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage."
--Lao Tzu
"Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind."
--William Shakespeare, "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
"If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever."
--Alfred Lord Tennyson
"Love, American Style" was an anthology series that aired on ABC-TV between 1969 and 1974. MORE: Vintage photos around New Jersey
"A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment." - Jane Austen, "Pride and Prejudice"
"Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold." - Zelda Fitzgerald
"He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same."
--Emily Bronte, "Wuthering Heights"
"And, in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make." --Paul McCartney
Here's a gallery of vintage photos of couples in New Jersey. Want more? Here's a link to our last Valentine's gallery.
Greg Hatala may be reached at ghatala@starledger.com. Follow him on Twitter @GregHatala. Find The Star-Ledger on Facebook.