"Where do I begin?" said a line of a famous song. Well, let’s start with definition. "Love is like a spice. It can sweeten your life – however, it can spoil it, too," Confucius once said. Kahlil Gibran, author of The Prophet, wrote: "Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; for love is sufficient unto love.
Emma Goldman gives us a clear view of love when she wrote: "Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of all laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful moulder of human destiny… Man has bought brains, but all the millions in the world have failed to buy love. Man has subdued bodies, but all the power on earth has been unable to subdue love. Man has conquered whole nations, but all his armies could not conquer love."
Goldman further elucidated, "Man has chained and fettered the spirit, but he has been utterly helpless before love. High on a throne, with all the splendor and pomp his gold can command, man is yet poor and desolate, if love passes him by. And if it stays, the poorest hovel is radiant with warmth, with life and color. Thus love has the magic power to make of a beggar a king. Yes, love is free; it can dwell in no other atmosphere."
An unknown author once scribbled: "When traveling the path of life, and finding love along the way, everything looks new and different. Little do you know it is the same old landscape you used to see all of the time; love has just given you new eyes."
Ah, love. Indeed, love changes everything. It is impenetrable, inscrutable, and mysterious. Jason Jordan commented, "Love is fire. But whether it’s gonna warm your heart or burn your house down you can never tell."
Indeed, love is a timeless subject. A lot of authors have used love as its theme. "The important thing was to love rather than to be loved," wrote William Somerset Maugham in Of Human Bondage. American poet Robert Frost penned, "Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired."
Ralph Waldo Emerson has this belief: "He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses."
Once upon a time, there was an island where all the feelings lived: Happiness, Sadness, and all of the others, including Love. One day it was announced to the feelings that the island would sink, so everyone repaired their boats and left. Love was the only one who stayed. Love wanted to persevere until the last possible moment. When the island was almost sinking, Love decided to ask for help.
Richness was passing by Love in a grand boat. Love said, "Richness, can you take me with you?" Richness answered, "No I can’t, there is a lot of gold and silver in my boat. There is no place for you here."
Love decided to ask Vanity who was also passing by in a beautiful vessel, "Vanity, please help me!" Vanity answered, "I can’t help you Love, you are wet and you might damage my boat."
Sadness was close by so Love asked for help, "Sadness let me go with you." Sadness replied, "Oh, Love, I am so sad that I need to be by myself!" Happiness passed by Love too, but she was so happy that she did not even hear when Love called her!
Suddenly, there was a voice, "Come Love, I will take you." It was an elder. Love felt so blessed and overjoyed that he even forgot to ask the elder her name. When they arrived at dry land, the elder went her own way. Love realizing how much he owed the elder, asked Knowledge, another elder, "Who helped me?"
"It was Time," Knowledge answered. "Time?" asked Love. "But why did Time help me?"
Knowledge smiled with deep wisdom and answered, "Because only Time is capable of understanding how great Love is."
"You’ll discover that real love is millions of miles past falling in love with anyone or anything," wrote Sara Paddison in Hidden Power of the Heart. "When you make that one effort to feel compassion instead of blame or self-blame, the heart opens again and continues opening."
First they fall in love. They became lovers. Then, they tied the nuptial knot to be together "till death." As years go by, they came to know each other well. As usual, they have their ups and downs. One day they had a big fight over his long working hours and things are falling apart. He was disappointed and she was angry.
After one week of silence treatment from her wife, he approached her with papers and pencils. He suggested that both of them sit down on the dining table and write down on paper what they are not happy about each other. They will then exchange the papers and discuss.
So the wife started to write without looking up because she has a lot to write about her frustration. The husband took a long look at the wife and he too started to write. After fifteen minutes of writing, they look at each other and exchange the papers.
The husband looked at the paper full of complaints. She was angry. When the wife looked at his paper, she was embarrassed and quickly tears away her own paper. On his paper, he wrote for two full pages: "I love you, honey!"
Jason Jordan said it right: "True love does not come by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly."
Emma Goldman gives us a clear view of love when she wrote: "Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of all laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful moulder of human destiny… Man has bought brains, but all the millions in the world have failed to buy love. Man has subdued bodies, but all the power on earth has been unable to subdue love. Man has conquered whole nations, but all his armies could not conquer love."
Goldman further elucidated, "Man has chained and fettered the spirit, but he has been utterly helpless before love. High on a throne, with all the splendor and pomp his gold can command, man is yet poor and desolate, if love passes him by. And if it stays, the poorest hovel is radiant with warmth, with life and color. Thus love has the magic power to make of a beggar a king. Yes, love is free; it can dwell in no other atmosphere."
An unknown author once scribbled: "When traveling the path of life, and finding love along the way, everything looks new and different. Little do you know it is the same old landscape you used to see all of the time; love has just given you new eyes."
Ah, love. Indeed, love changes everything. It is impenetrable, inscrutable, and mysterious. Jason Jordan commented, "Love is fire. But whether it’s gonna warm your heart or burn your house down you can never tell."
Indeed, love is a timeless subject. A lot of authors have used love as its theme. "The important thing was to love rather than to be loved," wrote William Somerset Maugham in Of Human Bondage. American poet Robert Frost penned, "Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired."
Ralph Waldo Emerson has this belief: "He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses."
Once upon a time, there was an island where all the feelings lived: Happiness, Sadness, and all of the others, including Love. One day it was announced to the feelings that the island would sink, so everyone repaired their boats and left. Love was the only one who stayed. Love wanted to persevere until the last possible moment. When the island was almost sinking, Love decided to ask for help.
Richness was passing by Love in a grand boat. Love said, "Richness, can you take me with you?" Richness answered, "No I can’t, there is a lot of gold and silver in my boat. There is no place for you here."
Love decided to ask Vanity who was also passing by in a beautiful vessel, "Vanity, please help me!" Vanity answered, "I can’t help you Love, you are wet and you might damage my boat."
Sadness was close by so Love asked for help, "Sadness let me go with you." Sadness replied, "Oh, Love, I am so sad that I need to be by myself!" Happiness passed by Love too, but she was so happy that she did not even hear when Love called her!
Suddenly, there was a voice, "Come Love, I will take you." It was an elder. Love felt so blessed and overjoyed that he even forgot to ask the elder her name. When they arrived at dry land, the elder went her own way. Love realizing how much he owed the elder, asked Knowledge, another elder, "Who helped me?"
"It was Time," Knowledge answered. "Time?" asked Love. "But why did Time help me?"
Knowledge smiled with deep wisdom and answered, "Because only Time is capable of understanding how great Love is."
"You’ll discover that real love is millions of miles past falling in love with anyone or anything," wrote Sara Paddison in Hidden Power of the Heart. "When you make that one effort to feel compassion instead of blame or self-blame, the heart opens again and continues opening."
First they fall in love. They became lovers. Then, they tied the nuptial knot to be together "till death." As years go by, they came to know each other well. As usual, they have their ups and downs. One day they had a big fight over his long working hours and things are falling apart. He was disappointed and she was angry.
After one week of silence treatment from her wife, he approached her with papers and pencils. He suggested that both of them sit down on the dining table and write down on paper what they are not happy about each other. They will then exchange the papers and discuss.
So the wife started to write without looking up because she has a lot to write about her frustration. The husband took a long look at the wife and he too started to write. After fifteen minutes of writing, they look at each other and exchange the papers.
The husband looked at the paper full of complaints. She was angry. When the wife looked at his paper, she was embarrassed and quickly tears away her own paper. On his paper, he wrote for two full pages: "I love you, honey!"
Jason Jordan said it right: "True love does not come by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly."
