Hope and Possibility

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All This and More

Love…
…is an elixir for life. A dose can temper sadness; give strength to the sick; lend hope to the hopeless and help a broken heart to feel again. All this and more I have felt since love brought us together.

A group of sayings about love assembled into a poem
Insanity and love are very much alike;
you’re crazy in both states.
Love can make you do things
that you never thought possible!
Because something won’t last forever,
doesn’t mean it can’t last a lifetime.
Love brings tears to our eyes;
yet it also brings smiles upon our lips.
Love looks not with the eyes,
but with the heart and soul!
When I say I love you,
I mean I accept you the way you are
and I expect the same from you.
You need trust to love,
but first you need to love in order to trust.
Be true to love,
and love will be true to you.

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From the First Lingering Glance

Love…
…can make someone you met only days ago feel familiar beyond explanation. It feels as if you fell in love with the person long before you met them, but did not know it yet.

Taken from “New Love” by Matthew Baldwin
From the first
lingering glance
Shared by a pair
of prying hearts
To the last
dizzying dance
Performed by two sets
of intricate
intimate
parts
I knew you.

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Inside One Is Changed

Love…
…almost never announces its coming in advance. Instead it arrives like being unexpectedly side-swiped in a sudden collision with nothing to show for it’s impact on the outside; only inside is one changed.

English playwright and novelist Charles Langbridge Morgan
There is
no surprise
more magical
than the
surprise
of being
loved.
It is God’s
finger on
man’s
shoulder.

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True Love is Inexhaustible

Love…
…is at times not having a clue where things are going or even precisely what emotions are being felt. When one can let go the desire for certainty, true love has the best chance to arrive, grow and last.

French literary Critic Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve
For true love
is inexhaustible;
the more
you give,
the more
you have.
And if you go to draw
at the true fountainhead,
the more water you draw,
the more abundant
is its flow.

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Radiant Warmth to the Heart

Love…
…is the strongest energy on Earth. Nothing can move mountains or soothe a savage as well; nor inspire as it can; nor make one feel as safe and secure. Love is radiant warmth to the heart as the sun is to the body.

Taken from a thought by American poet Susan Polis Schutz
This life is yours.
Take the power to choose
what you want to do
and do it well.
Take the power
to love
what you want in life
and love it
honestly.
No one else can
do it for you.

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So Worth the Risk

Love…
…is a confounding puzzle; a miraculous riddle; an eternal enigma. Yet to thrive the soul must have it. Love: so necessary, so emotionally dangerous and so worth the risk.

From “I Ching”, the Chinese “Book of Changes”
When
two people
are at one
in their
inmost hearts,
they shatter even
the strength
of iron
or of bronze.

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The Joy of Love

Love…
…true and good, gives purpose to living just as light gives beauty to sun’s rise and set. Everything has more meaning through the eyes of one who has the joy of love.

“Simply Love” by Oklahoma Poet Hazel Mae Bell
The world is poetry,
the birds
and bees,
The flowers,
the grass,
the ants,
the trees,
The clouds that drift,
the sky so blue,
the world is lovely,
’cause I love you.

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Inconstancy of Love

Love…
…comes from a simple start then with each breath it surges and wanes; ebbs and flows. Some moments it is greater. Some moments it is less. The ability to stay through the inconstancy of love is how it’s proven to be real and lasting.

Dutch post-Impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh
There
is
nothing
more
truly
artistic
than
to
love…

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Language that Our Hearts Express

Love…
…without feeling anxious or afraid of its outcome is new for me. Always before I expected loving to take me somewhere else and transform my life. Imagine my surprise at staying in the same place with the same life and being happily in love with you.

From “Love” by modern-day poet Gianella Ramirez
Love
is the laughter
that you and I share…
Love
is the small things
that show how we care…
Love
is the language
that our hearts express…
Love
is the feeling
of true happiness…

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The Last Test and Proof

Love…
…is easy, yet challenging. The ease is falling in love when discovering someone truly special and deserving of one’s affection. The challenge is trying to love with a fresh and brave heart even thought it has been broken many times before.

Quote from Bohemian-Austrian poet Rainer Maria Rilke
For one human being
to love another
is perhaps
the most difficult
of our tasks;
the ultimate,
the last test and proof;
the work for which
all other work
is but preparation.