Many Kinds of Love

Love…
…means understanding, not agreement. It means forgiveness, not forgetting. It means the memories last, even if contact is lost. Love like energy can not be created or destroyed. Once it is, love always is.

From “Anna Karenina by Russian writer Leo Tolstoy
shadow heart…if it is
true that
there are
as many
minds as
there are
heads, then
there are
as many
kinds of love
as there
are hearts.

Life After Life

Love…
…felt familiar from the moment I began to fall for you. It didn’t feel like a new spark, but rather a dormant one I had always carried. A sleeping ember was only waiting for your breath to awakened it and set a fire in my heart.

First non-European to win Literature Nobel Prize Rabindranath Tagore
05prom.600I seem to have
loved you in
numberless
forms,
numberless
times,
in life after
life, in age
after age
forever.

Most Sought After

Love…
…makes everyone a daydreamer either about the love he or she has found or hopes for. Anyone who says otherwise is not telling the truth. Loving and being loved is the most sought after prize on Earth.

Brazilian lyricist and novelist Paulo Coelho
I_dream_of_love_by_WildRainOfIceAndFireTell your
heart that
the fear
of suffering
is worse
than the
suffering itself.
And no
heart has
ever suffered
when it
goes in
search of
its dream.

So This Is Love

Love…
…is taking me where I’ve not been before. At times you leave me barely able to speak. At others you inspire me to write about my love for you with a depth and quantity I have never expressed to anyone before.


From “So This Is Love” from Cinderella (David/Hoffman/Livingston)

original editSo this
is love.
So this
is what
makes life
divine.
I’m all
aglow,
And now
I know
the key
to all heaven
is mine.

Long Lost Puzzle Piece

Love…
…is easy when it is meant to be. Each fits to the other like a long-lost puzzle piece that neither knew was missing. There is no perfection, but true love comes close.

Robert Browning to Elizabeth Barrett Sept 12, 1846
truelove222EDITI look back,
and in every
one point,
every word
and every gesture,
every letter,
every silence,
you have
been entirely
perfect to me.
I would not change
one word,
one look.

I’ll Wait For You

Love…
…makes my heart yours. Hindsight always seems so clear while what’s ahead appears to be obscured in fog. Time is slowly vaporizing like hazy mist in the morning sun and one day, I too, will evaporate back to where I once came from. If I am the first to go, I’ll wait for you there.

Dialogue from the movie “Moulin Rouge”
middle-aged-couple2Listen
to my
heart,
can you
hear it
sing:
Come
back
to me
and forgive
everything.

The Power To Love

Love…
…is a suit of armor for the spirit and a strengthener of will and fortitude. Love amplifies and makes better all that is good and it diminishes and makes the bad easier to bear.

American poet and greeting card producer Susan Polis Schutz
strengthlovegm1This 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.
Take the power
to walk in the forest
and be a part of nature.
Take the power to control
your own life. No one else
can do it for you.
Take the power
to make your life happy.

Whether We Want It To Or Not

Love…
…never forgets. It is always remembered. When true love comes it carves out a space deep within us that will forever remain whether we want it to or not.

From the book “Different Directions” by Donna L. Jones
-JESSI~1Your sweet
scent will
forever be
with me,
reminding me
of the love
we once
shared.
I will
breathe in
the memories
until we
meet again.

All The Barriers Within

Love…
…is the only true “blood” that that keeps people together. It’s stronger than genetics, ancestors, or kin. Love has the power to make “family” of any two people anywhere, anytime.

13th-century Persian Muslim poet and Sufi mystic, Rumi
2256066221_d710b7ffeeYour task
is not
to seek
for love,
but merely
to seek
and find
all the barriers
within yourself
that you
have built
against it.

As No Other Force

Love…
…stirs as no other force can. It is as if the heart was first created for loving and for moving blood through the body afterward.

Little is known about the author, Robert Tizon
4478208983_e51be2b2d1I would rather
have eyes that
cannot see;
ears that
cannot hear;
lips that
cannot speak,
than a heart
that cannot love.