It hurts to love someone and not be able to be loved in return. It's even more painful to love someone and . . . never find the courage to let that person know just how it is you feel.
	Love is two hearts making their dreams become one.
Some chances came and went, and if you missed them, you could spend the rest of your life standing alone, waiting for an opportunity that had already passed you by.

To love is to admire with the heart. To admire is to love with the mind.

"If you're ever going to love me, love me now while I can know
All the sweet and tender feelings which from real affection flow.
Love me now while I am living, do not wait till I am gone . . . "
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It takes a lot of courage to love. . . It takes a brave heart that risk being broken to discover the joy of LOVE.

"Be yourself. Especially do not feign
affection. Neither be cynical about love; for
in the face of all aridity and disenchantment,
it is as perennial as the grass."

"Excellence of the Gift of Love . . . . .
Now I will show you the way which surpasses all the others. If I speak
with human tongues and angelic as well, but do not have love, I am a
noisy gong, a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophesy and, with
full knowledge, comprehend all mysteries, if I have faith great enough
to move mountains but have not love, I am nothing. If I give everything
I have to feed the poor and hand over my body to be burned, but have not
love, I gain nothing.

Love is patient; love is kind.
Love is not jealous,
it does not put on airs.
it is not snobbish.
Love is never rude,
it is not self-seeking,
it is not prone to anger;
neither does it brood over injuries.
Love does not rejoice in
what is wrong
but rejoices with the truth.
There is not limit to love's forbearing,
to its trust, its hope, it's power to endure.

Love never fails . . . When the perfect comes, the imperfect will pass
away . . . There are in the end three things that last: faith, hope
and love, and the greatest of these is LOVE. . . . ." -1 Cor. 13

Your relationship should be a place you often retreat to, not a place to hide from. Visit the "LOVE BEARS" for more on this.

"There is only one path to Heaven. On Earth, we call it Love." - K. Goldman

Reflections on Love
Love ... is the one treasure that multiplies by division: It is the one gift that grows bigger the more you take from it. It is the one business in which it pays to be an absolute spendthrift; give it away, throw it away, splash it over, empty your pockets, shake the basket, turn the glass upside down, and tomorrow you will have more than ever.
To love is to give oneself to the loved one without reservations or a second thought.	The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough of is love.	True love should be lived like an imperfect circle that has its bumps but never ends.
"Every moment of your life you are offered the opportunity to choose - love or fear - to tread the earth, or to soar the heavens. Fear would walk you on a narrow path, promising to take you where you want to go. Love says, 'Open your arms and fly with me.'"		Love is being there, simply being there. It is simple everyday moments that are laid like bricks, one atop another until they formed a foundation so solid that nothing could make them fall. Not rain... not even the faded watercolor memories of a once brushfire passion.
If you have someone special in your life, don't wait to start loving them.	What is so remarkable about love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.
You've experienced true love if you've taken away the feelings, taken away the passion, and taken away the romance. . . only to find that after all that, you still care.	Maybe God wants us to meet the wrong people before meeting the right ones, so when the right one comes along, we'll know how to be grateful & thankful for the gift.	Happiness is having a hand to hold, finding a heart to heal, and leaning into tomorrow with love.
"To laugh with someone because you both think the same things are funny. . . that is the best!"

There's a jolly Saxon proverb that goes pretty much like this,
That a man is half in heaven when he has a girl to kiss.
But there is danger in delaying, for the sweetness may forsake it,
So I tell you bashful lover, if you want a kiss....why, take it.

Never let another fellow steal a march on you in this,
And never let a laughing maiden see you spoiling for a kiss.
There's a royal way to kissing and the jolly ones who make it
Have a motto that is winning, "If you want a kiss....why, take it".

Any fool may face a cannon, anybody wear a crown,
But a man must win a woman if he'd have her for his own.
If you'd have the golden apple you must find the tree and shake it,
If the thing is worth the having, and you want a kiss....why, take it.

Who would burn upon a desert with a forest smiling by?
Who would change his sunny summer for a bleak and wintry sky?
Oh I tell you there is magic and you cannot, cannot break it,
For the sweetest part of loving is to want a kiss.....and take it.

An Angel In Your Pocket

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