Posted in A Matched Pair, Gift of Love, Lasting love, tagged always with me, dealing with difficult things, loving with all my senses on May 21, 2013 |
Love…
…survives in spite of famine, tragedy and illness. When life is most challenging what is in the heart is spilled forth in the greatest measure. Love is neither remedy nor cure, but makes bitter medicine easier to swallow.
From the novel “Today Only” by American author D. Love
What I want
from you
is simple.
I want
today only.
If it’s laughter,
I want it.
If it’s pain,
I want it.
Whatever
today holds,
as long as
the day
holds you,
I want it.
Posted in Arrival of Love, Hope and Possibility, Inspiration of love, tagged dealing with difficult things, love expressed simply, rediscovering love on April 27, 2013 |
Love…
…. is always good, no matter how much we may end up hurt by it. From each little hurt and each big heartbreak come the lessons of love. Often we learn what we should have done from doing what we should not have done.
Blogger and spiritual seeker James Browning
All the others were
to make me ready for you.
I had to learn
what did not make me happy.
I had to learn
how I made them unhappy.
One by one
they came and went,
teaching me
how to recognize you
when you come into my life.
I’m waiting…
Posted in Lasting love, Power of Love, Strength of Love, tagged dealing with difficult things, Forgiveness, loving the good and bad on April 14, 2013 |
Love…
…shows a profoundly innate quality when the heart grants forgiveness. It is usually the difference between the death of love or its rebirth. Forgiveness strengthens a loving heart.
Australian poet, playwright and novelist Alison Croggon
We are all
mistaken
sometimes;
sometimes we do
wrong things,
things that have
bad consequences.
But it does not
mean we are evil,
or that we cannot
be trusted
ever afterward.
Posted in Inspiration of love, Mystery of love, Value of love, tagged dealing with difficult things, love expressed simply, many faucets of love on April 2, 2013 |
Love…
…is never the real reason for sorrow and unhappiness. Love itself is always pure, without corruption and eternally filled with gladness. It is only human thought, feeling and action that can make love into anything else.
American author and motivation speaker Leo Buscaglia
Love is always
bestowed
as a gift;
freely,
willingly,
and without
expectation…
We don’t love
to be loved;
we love to love.
Posted in Hope and Possibility, Power of Love, Strength of Love, tagged dealing with difficult things, love is complicated, many faucets of love on April 1, 2013 |
Love…
…perceived as only a smooth path is make-believe. It is overcoming the “downs” of loving that make the “ups” more and more lofty with time. Love that survives long-term is brightly polished by adversities overcome.
From “Letters to a Young Poet” by Austrian writer Ranier Maria Rilke
…only someone who
is ready for everything,
who doesn’t exclude
any experience,
even the most
incomprehensible,
will live the relationship
with another person
as something alive
and will himself sound
the depths of his own being.
Posted in Power of Love, Strength of Love, Value of love, tagged dealing with difficult things, feeling safe in love, many faucets of love on March 28, 2013 |
Love…
…puts color into what is drab; life into what is barren; joy into what is empty. Love is the difference between a life endured and a life lived well.
Playwright, novelist and Pulitzer Prize winner Thornton Wilder
There is
a land of
the living
and a land
of the dead
and the bridge
is love,
the only
survival,
the only
meaning.
Posted in Mystery of love, Power of Love, Risk of Love, tagged dealing with difficult things, love is a thousand little things, loving the good and bad on March 24, 2013 |
Love…
…lives in one of a kind hearts, each made unique by memories stored and grief accumulated; by kindness stockpiled and good and bad feelings saved; by tenderness collected and heartbreak gathered. These and more plough and cultivate the heart till it becomes either soft and fertile or withered and hard.
German writer, artist, and politician Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
All the
knowledge
I possess
everyone
else can
acquire,
but my
heart
is all
my
own.
Posted in Inspiration of love, Missing You, Strength of Love, tagged dealing with difficult things, loving the good and bad, seeing you clearly on March 13, 2013 |
Love…
…that is given time, heals. Our days apart brought a clear knowing of how much you mean to me. Alone in the quiet within myself, I listened to my heart and it whispered loudly, “you love him still with all that you are”.
Dutch-born Catholic priest and writer Henri Nouwen
Somewhere
we know
that without
silence,
words
lose their
meaning,
that without
listening,
speaking
no longer
heals,
that without
distance,
closeness
cannot
cure.
Posted in Hope and Possibility, Risk of Love, When you're away, tagged dealing with difficult things, hopes for your good, sickness and health on February 1, 2013 |
Love…
…brings great concern when the one who has your heart is seriously ill. Pacing or being anxious does no good, but it happens anyway. Prayers help. Forever promises are often made in those worried moments wishing to take the one you love’s place.
Quote by a writer unknown/anonymous
In those moments
realizing you
could be
lost to me
forever,
I feel helpless,
powerless,
and utterly lost
like a frightened child.
I can’t tell up from down.
My world spins all around.
You are more of me
than I am of my self.
Posted in Arrival of Love, Imperfection of Love, Mystery of love, tagged dealing with difficult things, feeling safe in love, love is complicated on January 29, 2013 |
Love…
…is where almost all make mistakes before, if ever, getting it right. Some waste time in a bad relationships. Others marry the wrong person. Some learn what not to do by being mistreated… and so on. Such things are the threshing love does to make us ready.
From “Brushstrokes of a Gadfly” by E.A. Bucchianeri
Falling in love is very real,
but I used to shake my head
when people talked
about soul mates,
poor deluded individuals
grasping at some
supernatural ideal
not intended for mortals
but sounded pretty
in a poetry book.
Then, we met,
and everything changed,
the cynic has
become the converted,
the sceptic,
an ardent zealot.
