Love and Being Loved

Love 3

"I've learned that true friendship continues to grow, even over the longest distance. Same goes for true love."

Love 2

May the love hidden deep inside your heart find the love waiting in your dreams. May the laughter that you find in your tomorrow wipe away the pain you find in your yesterdays.    

Love

"We say we love flowers, yet we pluck them. We say we love trees, yet we cut them down. And people still wonder why some are afraid when told they are loved."

For one human being to love another:
that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks;
the ultimate, the last test and proof,
the work for which all other work is but preparation.
Rainer Maria Rilke

From Imagination to Love

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -
That myth is more potent than history.
I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts -
That hope always triumphs over experience.
That laughter is the only cure for grief.
And I believe that love is stronger than death.
                                              ~ Robert Fulghum

Imagination
"You see things, and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were, and say, 'Why Not?'" ~ George Bernard Shaw

Myths
"Myths are clues to the spiritual potentialities of the human mind." ~ Joseph Campbell

Dreams
"Dreams are more real than reality itself, they're closer to the self." ~Gao Xingjian

Hope
Hope is the thing with feathers, that perches in the soul, and sings the tune without words, and never stops at all." ~ Emily Dickinson

Laughter
"Mirth is God's medicine. Everybody ought to bathe in it." ~Henry Ward Beecher

"Laughter is an instant vacation." ~Milton Berle

"Laughter is the shortest distance between two people." ~ Victor Borge

Love
"You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly." ~ Sam Keen

"True love begins when nothing is looked for in return." ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Peace

“True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.”

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.

John Lennon