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For Marriage by John O’Donohue
As spring unfolds the dream of the earth, may you bring each other’s hearts to birth.
As the ocean finds calm in the view of land, may you love the gaze of each other’s mind.

As the wind arises free and wild, may nothing negative control your lives.

As kindly as moonlight might search the dark, so gentle may you be when light grows scarce.
As surprised as the silence that music opens, may your words for each other be touched with reverence.

As warmly as the air draws in the light, may you welcome each other’s every gift.
As elegant as dream absorbing the night, may sleep find you clear of anger and hurt.

And as twilight harvests all the day’s color, may love bring you home to each other.

Wild Geese by Mary Oliver
You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert,

repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.
Tell me about your despair, yours, and I will tell you mine. Meanwhile the world goes on. \Meanwhile the sun

and the clear pebbles of the rain are moving across the landscapes, over the prairies and the deep trees, the

mountains and the rivers. Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air, are heading home again.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild

geese, harsh and exciting -- over and over announcing your place in the family of thing.

Brief Quotes from Various People

When I saw you I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew. - Wm. Shakespeare

In all the world there is no heart for me like yours; there is no love for you like mine. - Maya Angelou

Now at last they were beginning Chapter One of the Great Story no one on earth has ever read, which goes on
forever; in which every chapter is better than the one before. - C.S. Lewis
I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you. - Paul Coelho, The Alchemist

As soon as I saw you, I knew an adventure was going to happen. - Winnie the Pooh to Piglet
I didn’t plan on falling in love with you, and I doubt you planned on falling in love with me. But, once we met,
it was clear that neither of us could control what was happening to us. - The Notebook

I love you. I am who I am because of you. You are every reason, every hope and every dream I’ve ever had.
And, no matter what happens to us in the future, every day we are together is the greatest day of my life. I will
always be yours. - The Notebook

Then you rose into my life like a promised sunrise, brightening my days with the light in your eyes. I’ve never
been so strong; now I’m where I belong. - From Where We Belong Maya Angelou

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