Love Note for Lovers

• When in the heat of the battle, always remember: a warm hug cools a slow burn. It may be better to temporarily put aside feelings of anger during misunderstandings and express your love in a silent, close embrace. It is at times like these, when tempers are flaring, that words can not only fan the flames, they can be like a flash fire; once the fire rages through, there is not much of anything left. A hug at that moment, would be a shining example of unconditional love. Being angry doesn't mean you are no longer loved or lovable, or that you do not love your love partner. Love stands on its own. It only needs your constant attention if you want it to grow. While it may be difficult to express love in the middle of no agreement, it is possible. Imagine a relationship where love partners, in the midst of a disagreement, can agree to a truce long enough to again call attention to the single thing that keeps them together. . . love. Hold one another, if only for a moment. When things cool down, have a warm and loving conversation that again gives birth to the possibility of agreement. If you can imagine it, you can bring it to pass. What an exciting possibility! Love more quickly heals a slow burn.

• Taking your forever lover for granted drives a wedge between the two of you. Then comes the drifting apart you once feared. You become lonely, anxious and withdrawn. What you take for granted, disappears! You and your lover may still be together physically, however, most likely neither one of you are really there for each other. To avoid the consequences of neglect, you will find that the only solution is the open talk you can allow yourself to have about it. Embrace your concerns. Sharing your true self with your love partner adds a new dimension to your relationship. Allowing your love partner to know your inner-world; to know how you really feel, is sharing at a higher level; perhaps even a spiritual level. You will discover a higher source of strength. Not being afraid of how your love partner will react is a true test of courage. Being willing to share yourself in this manner tells your lover the level of trust you are willing to express. When you lovingly communicate, the depth of connection that comes from this kind of intimate conversation, brings on a deeper experience of love, most desired yet difficult when you are inclined to withhold because of fear. You make the choice. Intimacy or separation. It is only and always in your hands. Talk or be silent and wait for the inevitable; the ultimate separation.

Agnostic Believer

I believed in You
Because I was told to

I believed in You
Because I was taught to

I believed in You
So I prayed to you

I believed in You
So many times I thanked You

I believed in You
And in miracles too

I believed in You
So that day I begged You

I believed in You
But now I doubt You

I guess I still believe in You
Sometimes I'm afraid not to

But if I don't believe in You
Then who in the world am I talking to?

DANCE LIKE NO ONE'S WATCHING

We convince ourselves that life will be better after we get married, have a baby, then another. Then, we are frustrated that the kids aren't old enough, and we'll be more content when they are. After that, we're frustrated that we have teenagers to deal with. We will certainly be happy when they are out of that stage.

We tell ourselves that our life will be complete when our spouse gets his or her act together, when we get a nicer car, when we are able to go on a nice vacation, when we retire. The truth is, there's no better time to be happy than right now. If not now, when? Our life will always be filled with challenges. It's best to admit this to yourself and decide to be happy anyway. One of my favorite quotes "For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin, real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be gotten through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life."

This perspective has helped me to see that there is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way. So, treasure every moment you have. And treasure it more because you shared it with someone special, special enough to spend your time with, and remember that time waits for no one. So, stop waiting until you finish school, until you go back to school, until you lose ten pounds, until you gain ten pounds, until you have kids, until your kids leave the house, until you start work, until you retire, until you get married, until you get divorced, until Friday night, until Sunday morning, until you get a new car or home, until your car or home is paid off, until spring, until summer, until fall, until winter, until you are off welfare, until the first or fifteenth, until your song comes on, until you've had a drink, until you've sobered up, until you die, until you are born again to decide that there is no better time than right now to be happy... Happiness is a journey, not a destination.

"Work like you don't need money,
Love like you've never been hurt,
And dance like no one's watching."

THE STEPS TO HAPPINESS

Everybody Knows:

You can't be all things to all people
You can't do all things well, at once

You can't do all things, better than everyone else
Your humanity is showing, just like everyone else's

So:
You have to find out who you are, and be that

You have to decide what comes first and do that

You have to discover your strengths and use them

You have to learn not to compete with others

because no one else is in the contest of being you

Then:

Then you will have learned to accept your own uniqueness
You will have learned how to set priorities and make
decisions

You will have learned to live with your limitations

You will have learned to give yourself the respect
you deserve and you'll be a most vital mortal

Dare To Believe
That you are a wonderful, unique person
That you are a once in a life time history event
That it is more than a right, but a duty to be
who you are

That life is not a problem to solve but a gift to cherish
and you'll be able to stay one up on
what used to bring you down.

Lover's Dance

Dancing to the beat of the night
Dance with me and hold me tight.
Feel the rhythm of my heart
and lose yourself to the beat.

Electrify the dance on the floor
and drive the passion to the core.
Together we embrace the night
and sway arm in arm in delight.

Dancing under a lover’s charm
The clock rung of the coming dawn.
We didn’t care and danced anyway
and sang a chant up to the sky.

Touch me softly...
and hold me tight...
Carry me gently...
into the night...

Hail to our love with blushing wine
and toast to the rising of the dawn.
These moments we did cherish
where our rhythm of love would not perish.

DESTINY

Follow Your Destiny Wherever It Leads You

There comes a time in your life when you realize that if you

stand still now, you will remain at this point forever.
You realize that if you fall and stay down, life will pass you by.

Life's circumstances are not always what you might wish them to be.

The pattern of life does not necessarily go as you plan.
Beyond any understanding, you may at times be led in different
directions that you never imagined, dreamed, or designed.
Yet if you had never put any effort into choosing a path, or tried to
carry out your dream, then perhaps you would have no direction at all.

Rather than wondering about or questioning the direction your life
has taken, accept the fact that there is a path before you now.
Shake off the "why's" and "what if's" and rid yourself of the confusion.
Whatever was ~ is in the past. Whatever is ~ is what's important.
The past is a brief reflection.The future is yet to be realized.
Today is here.

Walk your path one step at a time, with courage, faith,
and determination.Keep your head up, and cast your
dreams to the stars. Soon your steps will become
firm and your footing will be solid again. A path
that you never imagined will become the most comfortable
direction you could have ever hoped to follow.

Keep your belief in yourself and walk into your new journey.
You will find it magnificent, spectacular, and beyond
your wildest imaginings.

F R I E N D S H I P

Each of us has a hidden place

Somewhere deep within ourselves

A place where we go to get away;

To think things through

To be alone, to be ourselves...

This unique place, where we confront our deepest feelings

Becomes a storehouse of all our hopes

All our needs, all our dreams

and even our unspoken fears.

It encompasses the essence of who we are

And what we want to be.

But now and then, whether by chance or design

Someone discovers a way into that place we thought

was ours alone.

And we allow that person to see, to feel, and to share

All the reason, all the uncertainty

And all the emotion we've stored up there.

That person adds new perspective to our hidden realm

Then quickly settles down in his own corner

of our special place,

Where a bit of himself will stay forever.

And we call that person a FRIEND...

Y O U R L I F E

You have the ability to attain whatever you seek;

Within you is every potential you can imagine

Always aim higher that you believe you can reach..

So often, you'll discover that when your talents are set free

by your imagination...

You can achieve any goal.

If people offer their help or wisdom

as you go through life,

accept it gratefully.

You can learn much from those

who have gone before you.

But never be afraid or hesitant to step off

the accepted path and head off in your

own direction..

If your heart tells you

that it's right way for you.

Always believe that you will ultimely succeed

at whatever you do, and never forget the value

of persistence, discipline, and determination

You are meant to be whatever you dream

of becoming...

ECHOES OF OUR HEARTS

Sometimes we close our eyes and just listen to the echoes to our hearts.

We all fall in love and there are times when we love so much

that we lose ourselves in our own emotions. More often than not

we wonder why they are love that grows and love that grows cold.

We would start to search for answers and try to find where love has gone wrong.

But in the end we find ourselves, where we started for we cannot question

love when it has its own reasons. Love will always be as it always has been ..

silent, mysterious and deeply profound.

Many of us believe that love is forever, that love never dies,

only to be disillusioned in the end when we find our hands empty,

and our hearts longing. We mistakenly have looked at love as a need to be

fulfilled. But love is only a gift given to us. We should not hold it in our hands

for we may never find the strength to let it go when it decides to leave.

We should only embrace its warmth and glow while it last

and then freely open our arms when its time to say good bye.

When we fall in love with someone, we don't want that feeling to end for it is

everything we are, everything that we wanted to be. We pray that

love will stay and grow in our hearts. But, if it doesn't then we should

never let our lives be taken by it, for life should not end where heartaches

begin.

There is always a reason why we have to move on. When we have to say

goodbye to the feelings we wanted to stay forever, let us not wave

our hands with a heavy heart. For love will have to set it wings

free and find the place where it belongs. We may have lost

it but then again, when we close our eyes and listen to the echoes

of our hearts, we will hear that feeling resounding silently forever.

Then we'll know that it has never left us, for the good that we

have become because of love will always stay. It will always

be there reminding us that we should be thankful and happy, not

because we have lost love, but because, for once in our

lives, that feeling lived in our hearts and made us happy.

B E L I E V I N G I N Y O U R S E L F

Standing for what you believe in

regardless of the odds against you

and the pressure that at your resistance

means COURAGE

keeping a smile on your face

when inside you feel like dying

for the sake of supporting others

means STRENGTH

stopping at nothing

and doing what in your heart

you know is right

means DETERMINATION

doing more that is expected

to make another's life a little more bearable

without uttering a single complaint

means COMPASSION

helping a friend in need

no matter the time or effort

to the best of your ability

means LOYALTY

giving more than you have

and expecting nothing

but gratitude in return

means SELFLESSNESS

holding your head high

and being the best you know you can be

when life seems to fall apart at your feet

and facing each difficulty with the

confidence that time will bring

you better tomorrows and never giving up

means BELIEVING IN YOURSELF.

DANCE OF LIFE

There were two hearts who met in a dance.

That moment was magical. There was a sweet song playing

there was harmony and soon, LOVE in the air.

They fell in love and they started building castles in their dreams

and promised forever will all certainty.

But , somewhere in the midst of the fun, they got lost in the dance,

something went wrong but they can never do anything .

They were just drifting away, their fortress falling apart.

There were so many questions, but no one had an answer.

The music stop and then there was silence.

When we truly love someone, we give our best and let that person

see the pureness of our intention. But sometimes that person

makes us cry and hurts us for the wrong reason.

That someone must have love us but he has not loved us

enough to make him stand for what he truly felt.

Now we are faced with the seemingly impossible task of forgetting.

We have burdened ourselves long enough but we still can't

get out of this emotional trap. Let us remember that the more

we try to forget someone we love the more painful letting

go with become.

Sometimes we never had to take that person out of our hearts at all,

for he will always be there, no matter how hard we try to drive him away,

It isn't his presence that makes this difficult. It is our stubbornness to

accept our destiny that aligns forgetting next to impossible. We keep a

cold face but deep in our hearts, there is still that lingering hope for

reconciliation. Somehow we still believe that we can rekindle small

embers and relight the fine that once burned in our hearts.

These thoughts give us hope but it also breeds the seeds of loneliness

and despair.

The only way to forget is to accept and the only way to move on is

to look ahead and let the footprints of the past be blown by the

wind of time. Only then can our hearts find a partner in the dance

of life and hopefully never get lost again.

Isn't it beautiful?
Loving someone and something went wrong, it may be a miscommunication problem. It might just needs a moment in a quiet and pleasant place where both of you can hear each voice loud enough to listen and do something about what's individual's characteristic that upset both of you. There's nothing compares to OPENNESS where you can tell to your husband or wife how dreadful or how fortunate your day was.

I didn't mean to say that all relationship has a fairytale ending where everyone live happily ever after, i am just emphasizing that if you are in a relationship, you know how to GIVE AND TAKE. It ablsolutely won't work if none is willing to collaborate and make things happen.

Just wanna share it to someone out there hope it will make you ya'll think and evaluate on what kind of relationship you're committed to right now. The bottomline is do something about it that you won't regret the rest of your life.