What is True Love ?

“True love cannot be found where it does not exist nor can it be hidden where it truly does.”
“This is true love. Do you think this happens everyday?
A memory of true love is like a favorite song; no matter how many times it plays again, you never get tired of it.”
“True love is knowing a person’s faults, and loving them even more for them.”
“True love is when you’re still dancing, long after the music has stopped.”
“True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about but few have seen.”

If love is so important to have that one doesn’t want to lose it, why is it when we find true love we often don’t notice it?”
“True love can only be exprseed when both partners love each other.”
“True love is the strongest emotion that cannot be broken.”
“True love is like a rainbow in the sky who always have different colors.”
“True love is unconditional and everlasting, it is established over time and validated with memories of the past.”
“The true love is only in the mind… never to be real unless it flows in the heart.”
“If you really love someone, you’re willing to let go even if it hurts so bad. And when he/she comes back to you, that’s TRUE LOVE.”
“If love is so important to have that one doesn’t want to lose it, why is it when we find true love we often don’t notice it?”
“If you truly love her, if you ever break-up, your heart will always go on. That is true love.”
“Countless words, nor countless actions could ever define my feelings for you. True love defies definition.”
“If loves divine, true love you are. If love art mine, then mine you are.”
“Love is like a sweet flower, true love is a sweet rose…”
“True love comes but once. Grab it while you can, for when it will never pass again.”
“True love is something you feel deep inside, a feeling that you find impossible to hide.”
“A true friend is a true love.”
“True love endures, if it does not, then it was never true.”
“No matter how hard things seem, true love will aide you through it.”
“True love is a high and holy principle, altogether different in character from that love which is awakened by impulse and which suddenly dies when severely tested.”

more resources: love-articles.

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How to say ‘I love you’ in a Special Way

 

If you have finally decided to propose here are some ideas to help you make that special moment an occasion to cherish for life. But only get inspired by these ideas and use your own judgement about the way you would like to say ‘I love you’. Do anything that delights your beloved and improve your chances of hearing, “I love you too’ for an answer. Remember, if everything goes well then this moment is going to be recounted a number of times to friends, relatives, children and even grandchildren.

  • Decide how you will deliver the message. If your partner loves text messages or emails, consider a cyber-expression. Else plan a fun-filled evening together.
  • Choose the time of meeting with care. Select a time when your partner is relaxed and happy. Avoid choosing a time when the person is stressed or upset.
  • Select a romantic place for the meeting. A place that is liked by both of you would be a better option.
  • Set a romantic tone for the meeting. Give subtle hints to your partner about what is about to come and create a feeling of excitement in him or her.
  • Don’t make the setting too overwhelming for the person. Keep it simple and focus on moment.
  • Be calm. Try to hide your nervousness.
  • Propose in your own charming style. Don’t hold yourself and do anything you feel like doing to express your feelings for your partner.
  • You may write a romantic poem for him or her. If you are feeling too nervous you may record your voice in cassette. You can send it or play it before the person and watch the reaction.
  • It is seen that whispering those three golden words has a magical effect. You may try the trick.
  • Back the ‘I Love You’ message with solid and genuine reason why you love your partner. This will have a greater impact.
  • Be ready for a celebration with flowers or champagne when you hear a ‘YES’ for an answer.

If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don’t, they never were.

- Kahlil Gibran

more resources: ST Valentine’s Day

Communication: The Art Of Listening

When a relationship goes sour, one of the first things to suffer is communication. If you can’t communicate with each other, then there is no possible way to salvage the relationship. The thing to do is to prevent communication from ever being a problem. One of the most important aspects of this is to learn how to be a good listener. Listed below are a few guidelines to help you achieve this.

  • Give Them Your Undivided Attention
    When your lover wants to talk, put everything else out of your mind and actually be there with them while they are talking. You cannot possibly listen to them if you are thinking about other things you would rather be doing, or have to do.
  • Listen To What Is Actually Being Said
    This is especially true if you are in a disagreement. It is very easy to pick out the things in what your partner is saying that you want to hear and can throw back at them. This is not some high school debate class where you score points for winning an argument, this is your sweetheart and your actions here and now will dictate the course of the rest of your life together!
  • Look At Them When They Are Talking To You
    Have you ever tried to talk to someone that refused to make eye contact with you? It is very disheartening, especially when you have something important to say. When talking with your sweetie, actually look at them and not around the room.
  • Notice The Hidden Emotional Tone Of Your Partner
    Very often, your partner won’t say exactly what is on their mind straight away and it is up to you to draw them out. By looking for their emotional tone, through their body language, voice inflections etc., you will get a very good indicator of what is actually bothering them and also how it is affecting them.
  • Acknowledge Your Partner
    A correct acknowledgement can very often completely resolve a dispute in one go. It has a two-fold effect: 1. It tells your partner that you have heard and understand what they are saying and 2. It makes them feel better by releasing some of the emotional baggage that may have built up on the subject. A good rule of thumb when there is a lot of emotional baggage attached to a situation, is to acknowledge them by repeating in your own words what they have just said to you.
  • Remain Calm
    If your sweetheart is angry, very often they will lash out at you because you are there and are someone they can take their frustration out on. While this may not be pleasant and the most ideal way to handle a situation, I’m afraid it is part of the job description of being a sweetheart. Realize that it is just a way for your sweetie to vent and resist the urge to get angry back, it will only make things worse.

more resources: Loving You home page.

Chocolate as A Gift of Love

Facts on Chocolate

I believe you enjoy chocolate just as much? It always feels so nice to have it melted in your mouth, delivering its wonderful taste right through your tongue, doesn’t it?

Well its wonderful taste aside, chocolate contains phenylethylamine – the same chemical that is released in your brain when you fall in love; leading to that increase in the pounding of your heart, feeling of a sudden gush of excitement. “Love Chemical” is what some would call it. It is also believed by researcher that phenylethylamine in turn causes the brain to release mesolimbic dopamine in the pleasure centers of the brain, another chemical where its presence is at peak during an orgasm.

Nevertheless, the sweetness from chocolate also triggers the release of endorphins. Think about those blissful feeling you had after a wonderful session of lovemaking. That is the effect from the production of endorphins in your body. Perhaps that is why some women actually remarked that they felt a feeling of elation when eating chocolate.

Well, a perfect gift for your love, chocolate will be. Just like buying roses during Valentine’s Day, chocolate can never go wrong. In fact, the both could be the best combination ever. Do you know that roses also contain the “Love Chemical”, Phenylethylamine? That explains for its distinct scent.

Giving of chocolate, as gifts of love has been long popular in Japan since the late 1950s. A bit different though; during Valentine’s Day, the ones doing the giving are the women instead and usually, chocolates were sent as gifts to confess their love for that special guy. Heart-shaped chocolates would usually be given. To nevertheless balance out this unique custom, “White Day” was later invented in Japan. On 14th of March it falls, one month after Valentine’s Day exactly. During this day, guys who received the chocolate will be given the chance to reciprocate their valentine gifts with soft, fluffy marshmallows. This would be the happiest day for girls who receive their fluffy gifts. Isn’t it so lovely?

Well, giving of chocolate as a gift of love has today, definitely become more and more popular. Along with the greeting card, your message of love will be delivered. Filled with your most genuine love, each chocolate will contain. Melting one’s heart as they melt in the mouth, warming up their heart as sweetness run through their tongue.

So, Guys..

Why not send some to your loved ones today, brightening up their day with a chocolate so full of love.. ;-)

more resources: Love Letter Box home page.

 

Love and Sex

Love is an intense positive feeling towards a person, place or thing that involves showing that feeling in a positive way towards the object of the love. True Love is explained elsewhere and involves more.

Sex are the actions animals (we will leave plants and other forms of life out of this for now) do to satisfy the basic ingrained drive to reproduce and make more of themselves. Since humans are animals (nope, not minerals or vegtebles), we have varying degrees of sex drive.

When you have sex it does not mean there is love. Some people just have sex because it brings them pleasure or attention … or both. Some do it just because they are bored, need money, enjoy sex, want attention, want acceptence, or are drunk. The best way to have sex is with someone you LOVE, when the time is right.

Make sure you know the difference! Do not confuse someone you Love to have sex with (meaning you love the sex action) with someone who you love.

When you love someone, it does not mean you need to have sex. When you are a loving couple, you do not need to have sex. If one or both of a couple want sex, then it is becomes a factor of a relationship. For a couple of age who love each other sex is a normal part of a relationship.

So, Guys…Love and sex are different things! ;-)

more resources: Love is Great blog page.

Loving Without Losing Yourself!

You are in love and it feels wonderful. This love is different and you are prepared to do anything to make it last. To prevent this ship from sinking you work hard to steer this relationship into a safe harbor. In the process you lose yourself and your romantic relationship becomes all-consuming!

When in love, how do you preserve your identity and course in life when? Here is the number one reason for losing yourself in a relationship: Your belief that love is something you either deserve or not! Your misguided belief leads you to counterproductive efforts to do almost anything to get love and even more to hold onto it:

  • You modify your identity to gain approval and love from your partner.
  • You hold back intimacy to protect your vulnerability.
  • You have a need to manipulate your partner and the course of this relationship.
  • Your fear of abandonment paralyzes you

Yet, in reality, love either exists or it doesn’t. There is nothing you have to be, or do, to earn it. When it is love, there is very little if anything you can do to destroy it. If there is no love, there is nothing you can do to force it. Love is something that you deserve and if you can believe that, you will accept that:

  • You can be loved even if you are not perfect
  • You can be loved just as you are
  • You can be loved while keeping your course in life
  • You can be loved without getting lost in love
  • You can be loved while pursuing your life’s dreams
  • You can be loved, let go and let be

Love is the most powerful human lesson you are ever to learn. It is about overcoming the past and realizing your human potential, a purposeful interdependence through which you become so much more than on your own.

Once you can understand that love is not something to be found, rather it is in you to be shared, you can love wholeheartedly without fear. Don’t turn your back on love every time it touches you, because when you give up on love you give up on yourself.

posted by: Allie Ochs.

Thoughts On Love

Love is the word that makes one go into dreams of bliss and the word that can take one into pain. It all depends, how your love turned out. If you were stabbed in the back, pain will be the result and if you got loyalty, it will be pleasure. When one looks at the scenes of destruction of ones love, when one revisits the places where love had blossomed, below the flowering trees, one goes in to the memories of the lost love. It hurts and it hurts very badly. Similarly the love that enriches us can be invaluable. It gives a new breath, a new life. Love can give life and when lost, life may be lost. Call it addiction to love or whatever, love is a feeling that cannot be described in words. it has to be felt.

We hear about many break-ups and separations. What happened to the love that brought the couple together in the beginning? How can ex lovers talk of revenge? In love, there is no revenge. If your beloved stabs you in the back, you will not ask for revenge, because you loved and you still love. As I have yet to talk to someone who stabbed the beloved, I do not know about his or her thinking, but it must be that of – how could I do this? Or may be they are so evil that they applaud themselves for their backstabbing!

Love is sublime. Love gives power. Love gives determination. In love, many lovers do what they could never dream of. Empires have been sacrificed for love. Battles have been fought for love. Love has ruled mankind since ages. Those who experience love are truly lucky.

more resources: Your Romance Guide Home page.

What Is Perfect Love?

Perfect love is gentle and teachable, kind and easy to be entreated. It enters the school of Christ, as a pupil, not as a master, realizing how much is yet to be learned, rather than how much has been attained.

Perfect love shows us our ignorance and begets the inextinguishable desire to disipate that darkness, and to enter the realm of real and reliable knowledge. If you find yourself growing wise above all your teachers, inclined to become dogmatic, to criticize your fellow disciples and set yourself up as a standard for the whole church, you have no little reason to fear that you are not controlled by the Spirit of God.

Self-wisdom may easily assume the place of divine wisdom; and Satan may appear as an angel of light even in one who concerns himself with the most holy things. In no way are his ends more effectually secured than by inducing people to promote the subject of holiness by exceptional methods, and in an unteachable and arrogant spirit.

more resources: auburn article.

How to say I Love You in 100 Languages

 

Here are the ways to say “I love you” in many languages

  • English – I love you
  • Afrikaans – Ek het jou lief
  • Albanian – Te dua
  • Arabic – Ana behibak (to male)
  • Arabic – Ana behibek (to female)
  • Armenian – Yes kez sirumen
  • Bambara – M’bi fe
  • Bangla – Aamee tuma ke bhalo baashi
  • Belarusian – Ya tabe kahayu
  • Bisaya – Nahigugma ako kanimo
  • Bulgarian – Obicham te
  • Cambodian – Soro lahn nhee ah
  • Cantonese Chinese – Ngo oiy ney a
  • Catalan – T’estimo
  • Cheyenne – Ne mohotatse
  • Chichewa – Ndimakukonda
  • Corsican – Ti tengu caru (to male)
  • Creol – Mi aime jou
  • Croatian – Volim te
  • Czech – Miluji te
  • Danish – Jeg Elsker Dig
  • Dutch – Ik hou van jou
  • Esperanto – Mi amas vin
  • Estonian – Ma armastan sind
  • Ethiopian – Afgreki’
  • Faroese – Eg elski teg
  • Farsi – Doset daram
  • Filipino – Mahal kita
  • Finnish – Mina rakastan sinua
  • French – Je t’aime, Je t’adore
  • Gaelic – Ta gra agam ort
  • Georgian – Mikvarh ar
  • German – Ich liebe dich
  • Greek – S’agapo
  • Gujarati – Hoo thunay prem karoo choo
  • Hiligaynon – Palangga ko ikaw
  • Hawaiian – Aloha wau ia oi
  • Hebrew – Ani ohev otah (to female)
  • Hebrew – Ani ohev et otha (to male)
  • Hiligaynon – Guina higugma ko ikaw
  • Hindi – Hum Tumhe Pyar Karte hae
  • Hmong – Kuv hlub koj
  • Hopi – Nu’ umi unangwa’ta
  • Hungarian – Szeretlek
  • Icelandic – Eg elska tig
  • Ilonggo – Palangga ko ikaw
  • Indonesian – Saya cinta padamu
  • Inuit – Negligevapse
  • Irish – Taim i’ ngra leat
  • Italian – Ti amo
  • Japanese – Aishiteru
  • Kannada – Naanu ninna preetisuththene
  • Kapampangan – Kaluguran daka
  • Kiswahili – Nakupenda
  • Konkani – Tu magel moga cho
  • Korean – Sarang Heyo
  • Latin – Te amo
  • Latvian – Es tevi miilu
  • Lebanese – Bahibak
  • Lithuanian – Tave myliu
  • Malay – Saya cintakan mu / Aku cinta padamu
  • Malayalam – Njan Ninne Premikunnu
  • Mandarin Chinese – Wo ai ni
  • Marathi – Me tula prem karto
  • Mohawk – Kanbhik
  • Moroccan – Ana moajaba bik
  • Nahuatl – Ni mits neki
  • Navaho – Ayor anosh’ni
  • Norwegian – Jeg Elsker Deg
  • Pandacan – Syota na kita!!
  • Pangasinan – Inaru Taka
  • Papiamento – Mi ta stimabo
  • Persian – Doo-set daaram
  • Pig Latin – Iay ovlay ouyay
  • Polish – Kocham Ciebie
  • Portuguese – Eu te amo
  • Romanian – Te ubesk
  • Russian – Ya tebya liubliu
  • Scot Gaelic – Tha gradh agam ort
  • Serbian – Volim te
  • Setswana – Ke a go rata
  • Sign Language – ,,,/ (represents position of fingers when signing ‘I Love You’)
  • Sindhi – Maa tokhe pyar kendo ahyan
  • Sioux – Techihhila
  • Slovak – Lu’bim ta
  • Slovenian – Ljubim te
  • Spanish – Te quiero / Te amo
  • Swahili – Ninapenda wewe
  • Swedish – Jag alskar dig
  • Swiss-German – Ich lieb Di
  • Tagalog – Mahal kita
  • Taiwanese – Wa ga ei li
  • Tahitian – Ua Here Vau Ia Oe
  • Tamil – Nan unnai kathalikaraen
  • Telugu – Nenu ninnu premistunnanu
  • Thai – Chan rak khun (to male)
  • Thai – Phom rak khun (to female)
  • Turkish – Seni Seviyorum
  • Ukrainian – Ya tebe kahayu
  • Urdu – Mai aap say pyaar karta hoo
  • Vietnamese – Anh ye^u em (to female)
  • Vietnamese – Em ye^u anh (to male)
  • Welsh – ‘Rwy’n dy garu
  • Yiddish – Ikh hob dikh
  • Yoruba – Mo ni fe

more resources ; Knowledge Base Script blog page.

What is Love??

The word love has many different meanings. Just as there are many types of lovers, there are many kinds of love. According to many philosophers, the only goal of life is to be happy. And there is only one happiness in life: to love and be loved. Love is essentially an abstract concept, much easier to experience than to explain.

Here are some things I found about what love is…

  • Love is based on more than just physical attraction. Sure, attraction is a factor, but love goes deeper than that. Love is based on caring, friendship, commitment and trust.
  • Love is a shared feeling between two people who have a vested interest in one anothers happiness.
  • Love is the total surrender of your heart to another person with the security of knowing they will treat it better than you will.
  • Love should make you want to be a better person.
  • Love should make you feel happy, secure and appreciated.

If you have love in your life, it can make up for a great many things you don’t have. If there is no love in your life, whatever else there is has a lot less meaning.

Keep Peace, Love and Respect Guys!!!

More resources: Teen Advice.