Once upon a time ………
A very poor man lived with his wife. One day, his wife, who had very long hair asked him to buy her a comb for her hair to grow well and to be well-groomed. The man felt very sorry and said no.
He explained that he did not even have enough money to fix the strap of his watch he had just broken. She did not insist on her request. The man went to work and passed by a watch shop, sold his damaged watch at a low price and went to buy a comb for his wife.
He came home in the evening with the comb in his hand ready to give to his wife. He was surprised when he saw his wife with a very short hair cut.
She had sold her hair and was holding a new watch band. Tears flowed simultaneously from their eyes, not for the futility of their actions, but for the reciprocity of their love.
To love …it may be nothing!!!, to be loved is something but to love and to be loved by the one you love, that is EVERYTHING. Never take love for granted.
A store owner was tacking a sign above his door that read ‘Puppies for Sale.’ These signs had a weird way of attracting children. And sure enough, a little boy appeared at the sign. “How much are you gonna sell those puppies for?” he asked.
The store owner replied, “Anywhere from $30-$50.” The little boy reached into his pocket and pulled out some change. “I have $2.37, can I have a look at them?” The store owner smiled and whistled and out of the kennel came Lady, who ran down the aisle of his store followed by five teeny, tiny balls of fur.
One puppy was lagging considerably behind. Immediately the little boy singled out the lagging, limping puppy and said “What’s wrong with that little dog?” The man explained that when the puppy was born, the vet had said that it had no hip socket and would limp for the rest of its life.
The little boy got really excited and said “That’s the puppy I wanna buy!”
The man replied “No, you don’t wanna buy that little dog. If you really want him, I’ll give him to you.” The little boy got quite upset. He looked straight into the man’s eyes, pointing his finger and said, “I don’t want you to give him to me. He is worth every bit as much as the other dogs and I’ll pay the full price. In fact, I’ll give you $2.37 now and 50 cents every month until I have him paid for.”
The man countered, “You really don’t want to buy this puppy. He is never gonna be able to run, jump and play like other puppies!”
To this the little boy reached down and rolled up his pant leg to reveal a badly twisted, crippled left leg supported by a big metal brace. He looked up at the man and said, “Well, I don’t run so well myself, and the little puppy will need someone who understands.”
IN LIFE, IT DOESN’T MATTER WHO YOU ARE, BUT WHETHER SOMEONE APPRECIATES YOU FOR WHAT YOU ARE, ACCEPTS YOU AND LOVES YOU UNCONDITIONALLY
Each day is a little life.
-Schopenhauer
He is happiest who finds peace in his home.
-Goethe
We don’t know who we are until we see what we can do.
-Martha Grimes
Until you make peace with who you are, you’ll never be content with what you have.
-Doris Mortman
Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
-Sophocles
Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
-James Barrie
The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.
-Martha Washington
I don’t think of all the misery, but of all the beauty that still remains.
-Anne Frank
When you look at your life, the greatest happinesses are family happinesses.
-Dr. Joyce Brothers
Believe you can and you’re halfway there.
-Theodore Roosevelt
Life is like a mirror, we get the best results when we smile at it.
-Unknown
The natural state of a human being is dignity.
– Robert F. Kennedy
You may live longer than I do, but I will live more.
-James McConnell
To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
-Unknown
My life is my message.
-Ghandi
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.
-Indian Proverb
Don’t be afraid to fail. Don’t waste energy trying to cover up failure. Learn from your failures
and go on to the next challenge. It’s OK. If you’re not failing, you’re not growing.
-H. Stanley Judd
We can believe what we choose. We ae answerable for what we choose to believe.
-Cardinal Newman
Happiness is a direction, not a place.
-Syndey J. Harris
Our life is frittered away by detail… Simplify, simplify.
-Henry David Thoreau
Life is meant to be lived.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.
-Lady Bird Johnson
I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.
-Franklin Delanor Roosevelt
All of the significant battles are waged within the self.
-Sheldon Kopp
It does not require many words to speak the truth.
-Chief Joseph
People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy after.
-Goldsmith
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.
-Samuel Johnson
Success must be continually practiced or it will take wings and fly away.
-Kenneth Harmon
I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive.
-Henry Ward Beecher
Integrity is one of several paths, it distinguishes itself from the others because it is the right path,
and the only one upon which you will never get lost.
-M. H. McKee
Believe the best of everybody.
-Rudyard Kipling
As a man thinketh so is he, and as a man chooseth, so is he.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-Bart Forbes
Commitment is a line you must cross….it is the difference between dreaming and doing.
-Bernie Fuchs
The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.
-Bill Copeland
Beauty is truth, truth beauty, – that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
-John Keats
Our life is what our thoughts make it.
-Marcus Aurelius
These are the times that try men’s souls.
-Thomas Paine
If you believe in the Lord, He will do half the work: the last half.
-Cyrus Curtis
Ruthlessly compete with your own best self.
-Apollo 13 engineers
Five great enemies of peace inhabit us: avarice, ambition, envy, anger and pride.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Many of our disappointments and much of our unhappiness arise from our forming false notions of things and persons.
-Abigail Adams
Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing on one’s own sunshine.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Alter your life by altering your attitudes.
-William James
We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
-Alfred North Whitehead
There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.
-Shakespeare
Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself.
-Chinese Proverb
No man walks with dignity whose step is rushed.
-Anonymous
Write on your heart that every day is the best day of the year.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Never take away hope from any human being.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
The mere sense of living is joy enough.
-Emily Dickinson
In life, you can never do a kindness too soon because you never know how soon it will be too late.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
The cost of a thing is the amount of life that must be exchanged for it.
-Henry David Thoreau
Life is painting a picture, not creating a sum.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.
-Christopher Morley
And there is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness and truth.
-Leo Tolstoy
Life isn’t a matter of milestones but of moments.
Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
If man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
-Henry David Thoreau
Go – not knowing where. Bring – not knowing what. The path is long, the way unknown.
-Russian Fairy Tale
Try not to be a man of success, but rather try to be a man of value.
-Albert Einstein
For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: “It might have been!”
-John Greenleaf Whittier
Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
“When you’re not here something’s missing… my smile.”
In true love the smallest distance is too great, and the greatest distance can be bridged. – Hans Nouwens
“You and love came into my life at the very same moment.”
“Let no one who loves be called unhappy. Even love unreturned has its rainbow.” ~James Matthew Barrie
“Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it…It really is worth fighting for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don’t risk everything, you risk even more.” – Erica Jong
“Sometimes love is stronger than a man’s convictions.” – Isaac Bashevis Singer
“True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.” ~Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear. ~John Lenno
“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched- they must be felt with the heart.” – Helen Keller
“One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.” – Sophocles
Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves. ~ Albert Einstein
“Love is missing someone whenever you’re apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you’re close in heart.” – Kay Knudsen
“Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.” ~Washington Irving
“It’s hard to tell your mind to stop loving someone, when you’re heart still does.”
As we grow older together, As we continue to change with age, There is one thing that will never change. . . I will always keep falling in love with you. ~Karen Clodfelder
“He’s the cutest, sweetest, nicest, greatest, most romantic, most insensitive jerk I have ever met.” ~Unknown
If you love me, let me know. If not, please gently let me go.
“To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.” – Karen Sunde
“To be is to love, to love you is to be…”
“A love song is just a caress set to music.” – Sigmund Romberg
If rain drops were kisses, I could send you showers. if hugs were seas i send you oceans. and if love was a person I send you me!! ~Anon
“Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.” – Erich Fromm
“I believe that two people are connected at the heart, and it doesn’t matter what you do, or who you are or where you live; there are no boundaries or barriers if two people are destined to be together.” – Julia Roberts
“I often want to cry. That is the only advantage women have over men – at least they can cry.” ~Jean Rhys
This is about “love” in general and can apply to loving a fellow human as well as loving someone in a romantic way.
