Posted in Arrival of Love, Mystery of love, Shaped by love, tagged feeling safe in love, love is complicated, love reawakened on May 5, 2013 |
Love…
…never fades completely away regardless of what happens. Sometimes love pales to a faint ember. For others the coals glow brilliant red always. Large or small, love is permanent. It can’t be thrown away, cast aside or extinguished.
Newspaper editor, poet, novelist and biographer Laura Benet
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If the
sum
of
living
be
love’s
fee,
Tremble.
You
are
my
one
eternity.
Posted in Beauty of love, Magic of Love, Mystery of love, tagged love and friendship, love is a thousand little things, love is complicated on May 1, 2013 |
Love…
…is mystery. No, it is happiness; or a communion of kindred spirits; or maybe love is a tender touch and a gentle hand. Surely it must be passion, hope and the stuff of dreams. Love is all these things and a hundred more like them.
German philosopher, poet and composer Friedrich Nietzsche
What else
is love but
understanding
and rejoicing
in the fact
that another
person lives,
acts, and experiences…
Posted in Mystery of love, Risk of Love, Unpredictable Love, tagged love is complicated, rediscovering love, surprise of love on April 3, 2013 |
Love…
…is a mystery to never completely solved. It is a question for which no complete answers exist. Every heart loves differently making as many different kinds of love as there are people.
From “Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman” by Haruki Murakami
I sometimes
think that
people’s hearts
are like
deep wells.
Nobody knows
what’s at
the bottom.
All you can do
is imagine by
what comes
floating to
the surface
every once
in a while.
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 Arrival of Love, Inspiration of love, Magic of Love, tagged love is a thousand little things, love is complicated, many faces of love on March 14, 2013 |
Love…
…is assembled from every experience a person has ever known bundled up into one way of perception. Had a life not been as it was before one falls in love, chances are that love would not have happened.
Quote by a writer unknown/anonymous
I feel like
everything
in my life
has led me
to you.
My choices,
my heartbreaks,
my regrets.
Everything.
And when
we’re together,
my past seems
worth it.
Because if
I had done
one thing
differently,
I might never
have met you.
Posted in Arrival of Love, Gift of Love, Mystery of love, tagged love is complicated, many faucets of love, surprise of love on March 4, 2013 |
Love…
…sends no advance warning nor does it knock on the door of the heart before entering. It is a surprise guest that moves in and takes up residence without notice. Love is predictable only in its unpredictable arrival.
From a poem by Chilean poet and diplomat Pablo Neruda
I love you without
knowing how,
or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly,
without complexities or pride;
so I love you because
I know no other way than this:
where I does not exist, nor you,
so close that your hand
on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes
close as I fall asleep.
Posted in Arrival of Love, Gift of Love, Mystery of love, tagged feeling safe in love, love is complicated, many faces of love on February 25, 2013 |
Love…
…runs when chased, but will catch you if you stop running from it. To grab for love creates a barrier against its arrival. To give up on love makes you no longer its possible destination. Letting go and keeping hope makes for fertile ground for love to grow in.
Quote by American writer Carl S. Avery
Love enables you
to put your
deepest feelings
and fears
in the palm
of your partner’s
hand, knowing
they will be
handled
with care.
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.
Posted in Pain of Love, Power of Love, Risk of Love, tagged dealing with difficult things, love expressed simply, love is complicated on January 26, 2013 |
Love…
…is pain. Love is joy. Hearts that have known the greatest joy can best bear the deepest pain. Hearts that have known the greatest pain are best able to know the heights of joy.
From ” Mend My Broken Heart” by Jacelyn Soriano
We cannot love a person
with an all accepting,
transcending and encompassing
love without being hurt somewhat,
without being disappointed,
without being failed
of our expectations.
We cannot love
without being broken,
yet we cannot continue
in love without
being stronger
than our brokenness.
Posted in Gift of Love, Imperfection of Love, Mystery of love, tagged love expressed simply, love is complicated, many faces of love on January 15, 2013 |
Love…
…is a complicated and compelling mystery; a story everyone wants to have a happy ending. All love brings happiness; some stay happy and many don’t. It is the risk of it all that makes loving and being loved so precious.
From “Lucky” by English Novelist, Jackie Collins
Falling in love is like
getting hit by a truck
and yet not being
mortally wounded;
Just sick to your stomach,
high one minute,
low the next.
Starving hungry
but unable to eat.
Hot, cold, forever horny,
full of hope and enthusiasm,
with momentary depressions
that wipe you out.
