Unpredictable Love

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To Risk Everything

Great kindness may be expressed by loving, but love itself offers none. Peace may be found through loving, but love specifically brings none. Fulfillment may come from loving, but love alone does not offer it. Love offers nothing but fertile ground for all the highest and lowest of feeling and emotion to grow.

American author and motivational speaker Leo Buscaglia
rose-heart
To love is to
risk not
being loved
in return.
To hope is
to risk pain.
To try is
to risk failure,
but risk
must be taken,
because
the greatest
hazard in life
is to risk
everything.

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Waiting to Happen

“Colpo di fulmine”; a stroke of lightning; the moment you meet and there’s a mesmeric attraction far beyond the physical; a knowing at the level of the soul that’s innate, unexplainable, and irresistible; rare true love waiting to unfold.

From “A Thousand Pieces of You” by Claudia Gray
Lightning9I believe in a moment.
A moment when you
glimpse the truth
within someone,
and they glimpse
the truth within you.
In that moment,
you don’t belong to yourself
any longer, not completely.
Part of you belongs to him;
part of him belongs to you.
After that, you can’t take it back,
no matter how much you want to,
no matter how hard you try.

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Searching for the True

Sweetheart…
Loving you was never a choice. Knowing you first as a friend held my heart open so it could be almost unknowingly filled with you. I overflowed with love for you almost before I was aware of the emotion.

Scottish poet, novelist and translator, Edwin Muir
reimagining-my-lifeYes, yours, my love,
is the right human face.
I, in my mind
had waited for this long.
Seeing the false
and searching for the true,
Then found you
as a traveler
finds a place of welcome
suddenly
amid the wrong
valleys and rocks
and twisting roads.

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No Regrets

Babe…
No matter what, I love you. Nothing can change that. Loving you is the best, most difficult thing I have ever done. I don’t regret a minute of it nor will I ever.

From “Magic Bleeds” by husband & wife writing team “Ilona Andrews”
DSC_0114We live
in a dangerous
world.
If you see a
chance to be
happy,
you have to
fight for it,
so later
you have
no regrets.

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I Fell

My Darling…
For years I sensed you beyond imagination through every heartache that came; through every disappointment. I’ve been moving in your direction for so long I can no longer remember when your image began to take shape in my heart.

From “The Catastrophic History of You and Me” by Jess Rothenberg 
heart120aI was falling.
Falling through
time and space
and stars and sky
and everything
in between.
I fell for days
and weeks
and what felt like
lifetime
across lifetimes.
I fell until
I forgot
I was falling.

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If Love Was Enough

My Darling…
Have we come to the end of our road together or only a bend in the road? Must we part for a while so that one day we can appreciate each other more? Or, is it over? If love was enough, there would be no questions.

Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher Confucius
troubled-relationship tallIt is easy
to hate
and it is difficult
to love.
This is how
the whole scheme
of things works.
All good things
are difficult
to achieve;
and bad things
are very easy
to get.

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True Love Is Like That

Sweet Baby…
Sometimes loving you gets confusing and I wonder what will become of us. Yet, each time something happens that separates us for a little while, we come back stronger. True love is like that. It endures. It overcomes. It lasts.

American author of young adult fiction, John Greene
hug31hr5 2The feeling of loving her
and being loved by her
welled up in him,
and he could taste
the adrenaline
in the back of his throat,
and maybe it wasn’t over,
and maybe he could
feel her hand in his again
and hear her loud,
brash voice contort itself
into a whisper
to say I-love-you
as if it were a secret,
and an immense one.

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Please…

My Love…
Don’t give up. Hang it there. I am in this relationship for keeps. Whatever it takes, I’ll be here. Please forgive my shortcomings and I will let yours fade. Let’s stay in love and be happy. Please…

Credited to various sources, but most often as a Swedish Proverb
Man+comforting+a+womanLove
me
when
I
least
deserve
it,
because
that’s
when
I
really
need
it.

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Do Everything In Your Power

My Love…
My mind’s babbling is an over protective burden. It’s logic says our relationship is unlikely to survive long-term. But to those ramblings my heart and soul screams, “You’re wrong! We’re going to have a great life together.”

http://love.topstuff.net/love/xN0zOsTEOns
1375799_253795414775295_226324192_nSomeday, you’re going to meet someone who drives you mad, who you’re going to fight with and laugh with. Someone who you will share your deepest darkest secrets and past with, who you’ll do insane things for, someone, who is going to turn your life upside down. And when that time comes, don’t ever let them go and do everything in your power to keep them.

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Betting On Our Joy

My Love…
Either we are headed toward the unfolding of a beautifully rich love story or a genuinely horrific tale of heartbreak. The deciding scale is strongly tipped toward your actions and choices. Joy or grief? I’m betting on our joy!

American novelist, playwright, poet, and social critic James Baldwin
key_to_my_heart_2Love
takes
off
masks
that
we
fear
we
cannot
live
without
and
know
we
cannot
live
within.