In the game of love, it doesn't really matter who won or who lost. What is important is you know when to hold on and when to let go! You know you really love someone when you want him or her to be happy, even if their happiness means that you're not part of it. Everything happens for the best.
If the person you love doesn't love you back, don't be afraid to love someone else again, for you'll never know unless you give it a try.
You have never loved a person you love unless you risked for love. Love strives in hurting. If you don't get hurt, you don't learn how to love. Love doesn't hurt all the time. Though the hurting is still there to test you, to help you grow.
Don't find love, let love find you. That's why it's called falling in love because you don't force yourself to fall. You just fall.
You cannot finish a book without closing it's chapters. If you want to go on, then you have to leave the past as you turn the pages. Love is not destroyed by a single failure or won by a single caress. It is a lifetime venture in which we are always learning, discovering and growing.
The greatest irony of love is letting go when you need to hold on and holding on when you need to let go. We lose someone we love only when we are destined to find someone else who can love us even more than we can love ourselves.
On falling out of love, take some time to heal and then get back on the horse. But don't ever make the same mistake of riding the same one that threw you the first time.
To love is to risk rejection, to live is to risk dying, to hope is to risk failure. But risk must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing! To reach for another is to risk involvement, to expose your feelings is to expose your true self, to love is to risk not to be loved in return.
How to define love? ... fall but do not stumble, be constant but not too persistent, share and never be unfair, understand and try not to demand, hurt but never keep the pain.
Love is like a knife. It can stab the heart or it can carve wonderful images into the soul that always last for a lifetime. Love is supposed to be the most wonderful feeling. It should inspire you and give you joy and strength.
But sometimes the things that give you joy can also hurt you in the end. Loving people means giving them the freedom who they choose to be and where they choose to be. For all the heartaches and the tears, for gloomy days and fruitless years, you should give thanks, for you know, that there were the things that helped you grow.
Loving someone means giving him the freedom to find his way, whether it leads towards you or away from you.
Love is a painful risk to take but the risk must be taken no matter how scary or painful, for only then you'll experience the fullness of humanity and that is love.
Only love can hurt your heart, fill you with desire and tear you apart.
Only love can make you cry and only love knows why.
If you're not ready to cry, if you're not ready to take the risk,
if you're not ready to feel the pain ... then you're not ready to fall in love.
There was a time in our lives when we became afraid to fall in love coz everytime we do, we get hurt, then i figured that's why it's called falling in love.
When you decide to love, allow it to grow. When you promise to love, refuse to let it die!
after reading the above from a friend's mail, i know that i did knew LOVE once... that i felt it sometime ago ... it was the most wonderful feeling when its was starting or while you were at it... but when it ended, you feel like the world has really tumbled on you... and like its the end of the world. you feel a pain that is so inexplicable that you would swear not to love again... you cant eat, you cant sleep, you hate everyone specially yourself. sometimes you get lost and you find yourself just wandering on the streets endlessly... no direction... like you are a living but actually "dead". it was indeed hard to let go when it is time to let go! the more you hold on to something that wants to be free, the harder and more painful it got!
the months passed, and as the saying goes, "time heals wounds"... you come to accept what happened and finally you feel like of moving on. that you feel stronger now that you have experienced a broken heart. all the pain and hatred stops and you sincerely feel happy that your past love is happy whoever it is he/she is with... past love can indeed be a great teacher. you would be more concious of making sure you are not doing what made the past love fail... and would be more careful next time.
and then it becomes easier to say "THANK YOU FOR EVERYTHING" to that person who made you feel LOVE at one time in your life even though you didnt end up together. whatever hatred you had before is now buried together with the past. you can now just smile at all the good times that you had. LOVE is really a good thing... i know it will find me again soon cause now i feel ready! :-)