WQ #160: February 14: Beliefs/Holidays/Valentine’s Day Love
Happy Valentine’s Day Wednesday! Welcome to #WQ (Wednesday Quotes). Here’s your chance to showcase your photos, poems, thoughts, and stories about beliefs that inspire. We celebrate Valentine’s Day, which is as basic as our belief in love. As always, feel free to combine your favorite challenges and double dip. All you need is one excellent quote about the topic.
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Category: Beliefs Inspire Us
I remember making Valentine’s cards for friends and family. Little cards printed on a sheet, torn apart, and signed were part of the activities done in school on February 14th from the time I went to school through the years I taught school years later.
Valentine’s Day was part of a belief system in which we were taught to like everyone regardless of whether or not they were our best friends. Everyone got a card, usually with a candy heart inside and their name printed on the envelope. Even now we have one day at least everybody can celebrate the fact that we have loved ones in our lives.
We develop our beliefs from our earliest years. A belief is a personal acceptance that a statement is true or that something exists. More than anything, we trust our beliefs. Beliefs stir up controversies, raise tensions, and even create wars when people’s belief systems are not compatible.
Most holidays, religious or otherwise, stem from shared beliefs within a country or some unifying group. You may have brainstormed what you believe and where those beliefs came from. This is my unexpanded list.
- Inherited – our parents taught us what their parents taught them, and we accept those beliefs as true.
- Religion or lack of a religion guides our beliefs, laws, and national customs
- We learn beliefs from influencers – teachers, friends
- Scientific beliefs help us make sense of how the world operates
- National and religious holidays celebrate beliefs and unify people
Love Quotes
“If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.”
A. A. Milne
“The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.”
Margaret Atwood
“My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you.”
John 15:12
“Do to others as you would have them do to you.”
Luke 6:31
“A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.”
Proverbs 17:17
What do you believe about love? How do you celebrate Valentine’s Day?
Pink and Red Flowers Celebrate Valentine’s Day
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Tanka Tuesday – Early Spring February 3-20
Kigo Words – blossoms, Valentine’s Day, roses
Valentine's Day comes
scents of blossoms and roses
vases of tulips
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