In honor of St. Valentine and the greeting card industry, for today’s blog, I present thirteen love quotes.

#1: Love doesn’t make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile. Franklin P. Jones

#2: At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet. Plato

#3: Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. Robert Frost

#4: If you have it [Love], you don’t need to have anything else, and if you don’t have it, it doesn’t matter much what else you have. Sir James M. Barrie

#5: Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Henry Louis Mencken

#6: Love is friendship set to music. E. Joseph Cossman

#7: This is my commandment that ye love one another. Jesus, in John 15:12

#8: Only from the heart can you touch the sky. Jalaluddin Rumi

#9: The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart. Helen Keller

#10: There is no remedy for love but to love more. Thoreau

#11: If you judge people, you have no time to love them. Mother Teresa

#12: Love comforteth like sunshine after rain. William Shakespeare

#13: I love you. (I love you.)

        I love you more. (I love YOU more.)

        I love you the most/ I love you the most

        I win!

        Isabel Callie Bartolome, age 3 A game she plays with her mommy. She starts, I repeat, then we race to finish the last line. Whoever finishes first shouts “I win.”