SOME THINGS TO THINK ABOUT

Love is patient, love is kind and is not jealous.
Love does not brag and is not arrogant.
Love does not act unbecomingly, it does not seek it's own,
is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered.
Love does not rejoice in unrighteousnes,
but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things,
Hopes all things, endures all things.

Let no one who loves be unhappy.
Even love unreturned has its rainbow
James Mathhew Barrie

Love is a promise,
love is a souvenir,
once given never forgotten,
never let it disappear.
John Lennon

A loving heart, a gentle smile,
a warm and tender touch,
We give so many things in life
but nothing means as much.

A little inspiration
when someone loses hope,
A kind word of encouragement
when they no longer seem to cope.

A simple phrase, "I love you"
when no one else is there,
Taking hold onto a hand
in a little heartfelt prayer.

Love is never silent,
It has so much to say,
And it is our greatest blessing
when we give it all away.
Author Unknown

Each moment of a happy lover's hour
is worth an age of dull and common life.
Aphra Behn

I LOVE YOU

I love you, not only for what you are,
but for what I am when I am with you.

I love you, not only for what you have made of
yourself, but for what you are making of me.

I love you for the part of me that you bring out;
I love you for putting your hand into my heaped-up
heart and passing over all the foolish, weak things
that you can't help dimly seeing there, and for drawing
out into the light all the beautiful belongings that no
one else had looked quite far enough to find.

I love you because you are helping me to make
of the lumber of my life not a tavern, but a temple;
Out of the works of my every day not a reproach,
but a song.

I love you because you have done more than
any creed could have done to make me good,
and more than any fate could have done
to make me happy.

You have done it without a touch,
without a word, without a sign.
You have done it by being yourself.
Author Unknown

In the arithmetic of love,
one plus one equals everything,
and two minus one equals nothing.
Mignon McLaughlin

Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.
Japanese Proverb

There's a comforting thought at the close of the day
When I'm weary and lonely and sad
That sort of grips hold of this poor old heart
And bids it be merry and glad.
It gets in my being, and drives out the blues
And finally thrills through and through,
It's just a sweet memory, that chants this refrain,
"I'm glad I touched shoulders with you."

Did you know you were brave?
Did you know you were strong?
Did you know there was one leaning hard?
Did you know that I waited, and listened and prayed?
And was cheered by your simplest word.
Did you know that I longed for the smile on your face?
For the sound of your voice ringing true,
Did you know I grew stronger and better because
"I had merely touched shoulders with you ".

I'm glad that I live, that I battle and strive,
For a place that I know I must fill,
I'm thankful for sorrows, I'll meet with a grin
What fortune may bring, good or ill,
I may not have wealth, I may not be great
But I know I will always be true,
For I have in my life, that courage you gave,
When once, "I touched shoulders with you!"
Author Unknown

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind;
And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
William Shakespeare

We are each of us angels with only one wing,
and we can only fly embracing each other.
Luciano De Crescenzo

A certain man planted a rose and watered it faithfully,
and before it blossomed, he examined it.
He saw the bud that would soon blossom and also the thorns.
And he thought, "How can any beautiful flower
come from a plant burdened with so many sharp thorns?"
Saddened by this thought, he neglected to water the rose,
and before it was ready to bloom, it died.

So it is with many people.
Within every soul there is a rose.
The God-like qualities planted in us at birth
grow amid the thorns of our faults.
Many of us look at ourselves
and see only the thorns and the defects.
We despair, thinking that nothing good
can possibly come from us.
We neglect to water the good within us,
and eventually it dies.
We never realize our potential.

Some people do not see the rose within themselves;
someone else must show it to them.
One of the greatest gifts a person can possess
is to be able to reach past the thorns
and find the rose within others.
This is the characteristic of love,
to look at a person, and knowing his faults,
recognize the nobility in his soul,
and help him realize that he can
overcome his faults.
If we show him the rose,
he will conquer the thorns.
Then will he blossom, blooming forth thirty,
sixty, a hundred-fold as it is given to him.

Our duty in this world is to help others
by showing them their roses and
not their thorns.
Only then can we achieve the love
we should feel for each other;
only then can we bloom in our own garden.
Author Unknown

You may only be one person to the world
but you may also be the world to one person.

I've nothing else to offer,
So it's love to you I'll send
It's nothing that I borrowed,
And it's nothing that I'd lend.
It has no dollar value
And it can't be over used.
It isn't fragile so it will not break,
But often it's abused.

I've given it to others,
But each time it is unique.
It's meaning is always different,
Depending on what you seek.
It's something you can store away
To feel when you're in need;
But never is it on display,
It's beauty can't be seen.

I'm giving it to you,
No Strings Attached,
No Costly Warranty.
Because this love that I am sending
Has A Lifetime Guarantee!

The reduction of the universe to a single being,
the expansion of a single being even to God,
this is love."
Victor Hugo

Love is something eternal;
the aspect may change,
but not the essence.
Vincent Van Gogh

Beloved,
all that is harsh and difficult I want for myself,
and all that is gentle and sweet for thee.
San Juan de la Cruz

Thanks to the many sources and the teachers for this knowledge
and wisdom that is helping us on our journey.