Solitude

So true. When we fall in love, we are so passionate about it in the beginning that we often forget that there is still tomorrow to think about. You do not go into a relationship with the idea that the fire of your love, the burning love you are feeling for each other, will last forever. The novelty will wear off and what would be left?

A relationship takes hard work. Overwhelming lust can only do so much in the beginning. In the end, your respect for each other, your patience and the hard work it took both of you to reach a long time of being together will be the sustenance of a great relationship.

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they’re still alive.
- O. A. Battista

This is so true. And I’m afraid that it is actually in my family. We grew up with a tough dad. Sure, he shows us he loves us but the words were, and still are, never spoken. For some reason, it feels awkward when we try to speak of what we feel. Actions are more appropriate for our family.

Maybe, in time, we will get more comfortable with the words. For now, actions will do.

If you have love in your life, it can make up for a great many things that are missing. If you don’t have love in your life, no matter what else there is, it’s not enough.
- Ann Landers

The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.
- Thomas Merton

If you aren’t good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you’ll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren’t even giving to yourself.
- Barbara de Angelis

You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have really lived are the moments when you have done things in a spirit of love.
- Henry Drummond

Real love is feeling like being a part of that persons life almost isn’t enough. It’s more like a feeling that you would live in the same skin with them if you could and share every thought, heart beat, and emotion as one.
- Rod Cannon

Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your gold and good health has vanished.
- Og Mandino

As you continue to send out love, the energy returns to you in a regenerating spiral… As love accumulates, it keeps your system in balance and harmony. Love is the tool, and more love is the end product.
- Sara Paddison

At the first kiss I felt something melt inside me that hurt in an exquisite way. All my longings, all my dreams and sweet anguish, all the secrets that slept deep within me came awake, everything was transformed and enchanted, and everything made sense.

We all have our standards when it comes to the person we want to spend the rest of our lives with. But notice that most often than not, we end up with the person who is the complete opposite of what we are. There are those who end up with their ideal partner. They are the exceptions to the norm.

They said that we should wish to be with someone who complements us. So that the weakness of one, can be overcome by the strength of the other.

It’s so funny how we set qualifications for the right person to love, while at the back of our minds we know that the person we truly love will always be an exception.
- Unknown

What do you think?

Let the world stop turning, let the sun stop burning, let them tell me love’s not worth going through. If it all falls apart, I will know deep in my heart, the only dream that mattered had come true… In this life I was loved by you.

If only someone will utter these words to me…

Just indulge me, my dear readers and visitors. It’s raining and the hopeless romantic in me is burning feverishly.

Have a good night everyone!

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
- Louise Hay

Some people mistake love as giving everything in them. Sacrificing everything. Not leaving even a scrap for themselves. Do you know that that is the wrong kind of love? Love should be that you love yourself enough first so that you have more than enough to give to others. It is about self-preservation. It is about letting others love us for who we are, not for what we sacrificed for them.

Ah, love. It is so complicated and has many facets.

Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don’t share it, you don’t give the person that loves you enough chance to love you enough.
- Dinah Shore

But what if you don’t really have someone to share it with other than your family?

Happy weekend!

At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear. It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us. You can love completely without complete understanding.
- Norman Maclean

I do believe that when you love someone, you need not have complete understanding of it. There really is NO complete understanding of it at times.

Why you love the person completely, even though he or she does not really deserve your full devotion.
Why you forgive the person again and again despite the fact that he or she hurts you on purpose.
Why you still worship the ground the person walks on even though your instinct tells you otherwise.

Love is like that. You may not agree with me but I am sure at one point in your lives, you also felt this way.

Am I right?

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
– Robert A. Heinlein

But shouldn’t it be better if you think of yourself as well and not just sacrifice for the other all the time?