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Love Quotes can Spice up your Love Life

A lot of time, soft words of love can easily melt the toughest heart and make you a romantic if you are not one. Not only that, your relationships would surely spice up with a few quotes on love. It is said that love can make a poet of you. However, it is quite possible that you may be in love and yet not able to write any love poetry. If you do wish to be able to write something beautiful, love quotes could certainly be a good source of inspiration. Symphony of Love would give you your heart's fill of some of the most romantic thoughts and words.

Love Quotes can help in the Revival of your Love Life

Some love quotes have become great because they have infused and inspired the feelings of love in many people. Love quotes are sure to stir up not only love and romance in your heart but also in the hearts of those you love. As what Leo Buscaglia said, "Find the person who will love you because of your differences and not in spite of them and you have found a lover for life." Certain love quotes that we come across in a song, book, or movie have also change our attitude towards love and many of these love quotes have become universally accepted truths and common thoughts or ideas.

Love Quotes are the Wisdom of others

Love quotes are the insights of people, who like us, have learnt through their experience. Some of these love quotes are universally applicable precious words of wisdom from which lessons can be learnt. And we can continue to share this wisdom from love quotes with people around us so that they can benefit from love quotes too. Just as what Mother Teresa said, "We can do no great things; only small things with great love."

Love Quotes can make expressing the feeling of Love easier

Some said, "It is easy to fall in love." However, a lot of us would find expressing the feeling of love a whole lot more challenging than being in love. Are you one of those who experience the challenge too? Love quote makes it a whole lot easier for you to express the feeling of love. Love quotes inspire you to write something beautiful to express the feeling of love. One of the ways to express love is to write a love letter. If you are the creative and poetic type, then writing a love letter is probably effortless. However, if you are ordinary people like me who wants to pen a few lines for our beloved, then love quotes could be of much help. Love quotes help you to rise up to the occasion and fulfill the need of the hour especially when your mind failed to come up with words. One of a few good quotes is, "Love is like playing the piano. First you must learn to play by the rules, and then you must forget the rules and play from your heart."

Love Quotes can bring lovers closer

It is said that absence makes the heart grow fonder. This is probably why lovers who are apart spend most of their time thinking about each other. If you are living away from your beloved, then love quotes bring both of you closer at heart. As what Francois de La Rouchefoucauld said, "Absence diminishes small love and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire."

Love Quotes can bring a smile to your beloved

Love quotes can definitely bring a smile to the face of your family and friends. A few of the sweet and romantic love quotes are by John Clare, "I never saw so sweet a face. As that I stood before. My heart has left it dwelling place and can return no more." by Bill Wilson, "To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world." and by Alfred Lord Tennyson, "If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk in my garden forever." Use these love quotes to bring a smile to your love ones. You might be surprise too by the effect of these sweet love quotes.

Love Quotes can make Marriage Bliss

Most people would do good with a good love quotes at one time or another especially when they are talking to their loved ones. A good love quote uses at the right time can certainly improve the relationship with your beloved. Love quotes are words of wisdom in relationship. A few very good love quotes about marriage and relationship are by Benjamin Franklin, "Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.", by Theodore M. Hesburgh, "Love isn't blind; it just only sees what matters." and by Donald Laird, "To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart."

Love Quotes can heal a broken heart

Love quotes have a special 'healing' power for people. Julie Marie said, "Love is the best medicine, and there is more than enough to go around once you open your heart." And Helen Keller said, "When one door of happiness closes, another opens: but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which had been opened for us."

Love Quotes can inspire you to live better life

Love quotes are an inspirational source that drives us forward in our life, helping us to stay afloat in rough seas and giving us the courage to pull through difficult times. A few of the inspirational love quotes which I like are: "In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities" by Janos Arnay, "Where there is love, there is life." by Mahatma Gandhi, "Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage." by Lao Tzu and "Who so loves believes the impossible." by Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

Letting Go Of The One Who Got Away

So I always talk about the bad relationships experiences that I have had.  However there were many good ones.  There were ones that I regret or wish that I had taken more seriously.  There were ones who really like me and I did not like them.  And now most of them, if not all, are married and and are living a wonderful lives with their wives or serious girlfriends.

It is so easy to get caught up in the could of would of should of.  But through these relationships are valuable lessons.  The first lesson is that I was not ready for those type of men.  While I can always site what the man has done wrong to me, there were times where I went about the relationships wrong way and was not ready for a real relationship.  Or better yet there was time where I done the man wrong and I was the one who ruined things.

This is why it is so important that we always work on ourselves so that when the right one does come along we do not go about ruining the relationship.  For myself I think this is a lesson I had to learn.  Many of you may think about the one that got away, but there is a reason that they got away.  A reason that both you and them must understand.  And that is why it is important to look inside ourselves to realize what is was about us that caused them to get away and when we realize this, then we are sure not to repeat the same mistakes once the next “one” comes along.

This brings me to my second lesson, stop thinking about the one that got away.  They are gone and if they have moved on then there is a large possibility that they are not coming back.  And therefore to sit and reminiscence about what is not and what is never going to be is utterly pointless and hindering you from moving on.

I am sure that we have have regrets in relationships. I am sure that there are some men out there who regret letting me get away just like there are people out there who I regret letting get away.  But the best remedy for that is just to build a bridge and get over it.  If you are not with that wonderful person there is a reason.  If it was meant to be, then it would be.  And so therefore we cannot live in past relationships, we cannot compare our new relationships to the one that we let get away.

There are a reason for both bad and good relationships that have ended, and the purpose is to learn from them both.  So just to be clear, stop social media stalking that man or woman that has now moved on. Stop wishing that you were with them.  Stop wondering what went wrong and how you can get it back.  Let go and let God.  Move on to your future.  Realize that you messed up, they messed up, or perhaps a combination of both, whatever the reason is; it does not matter.  There is someone else that is better out there for you, better than the one that you left behind.  Your only job is to be sure that you do not bring that past baggage that you had into the new relationship into the old relationship.  Got it.  I hope so.  Until next time folks.

The Mistakes of Your Past Do Not Define You.

As I was recording a video to talk about the lesson I would tell my younger self (click here for it)  I was brought back into the world of bad dates and bad men.  I used to keep a journal for most of my teenage years and into adulthood, and it was there that I was reminded of all all my mistakes and how I brought those mistakes into my adult hood.

I can recall one of the first journals I got, it was a gift from a woman at church and she told me that I should write down all my prayers in it.  The crazy thing is that I used the journal for my soundboard to let out all of my feelings.  I would not have considered them prayers them, but now I know that prayers are simply freely talking to God about all the things that are going on in your life (see my blog here) and that it does not have to be some ritual that we go through.

Before I get too side tracked I have to say that I am thankful for those journals, recalling my past mistakes, looking back and seeing the lessons that God was trying to teach me in those moments.  The relationships and people that He was trying to pull away that I for some reason was bent on keeping in my life.

During that time, the only thing that I thought mattered was the then and there.  I was always in some turmoil about some guy that did not like me or some situation that I was going through that I did not understand.  Life always seemed unfair and things were always against me.  As well as all the other whiny stuff that we seem to tell ourselves.

As I grew older and even until today, things are still unfair and some things in life are still against me, but in between that time and now there were plenty of good things that have happened that has made me a better person.  I now I have come to learn that this is life.

What I learned more than anything is that the seasons we are in, at this specific time really does not last forever.  Just like the bad seasons during those times and the bad relationships in which I thought my heart would  never mend, I got over it.  Not only did I get over but I also saw the reason for it.

I think that we all must realize that God has a reason for doing what He does.  For putting us through trails, tribulations, hardships, heartbreaks, and all the rest of it.  And although we may not understand it we have to trust that things will get better and once they do we will get better because of it.

I can recall thinking about at least 5 or 6 dating experiences and/ or relationships I should have never been in.  Or ones that I stayed in for way too long.  I could probably think of more than that.  I can think about how God tried to pull me out and me fighting every step of the way, saying to myself that I know better and that God was wrong for trying to pull this person away.

As always in retrospect I realize that I was wrong and God was right.  And I think about the years that I wasted on people, relationships, things, jobs, situations that cost so much of my time and so much energy.  Ones that I thought were the only things that matter when in fact God was trying to call me into a better future.

The whole point that I am trying to get at in this post is that we all have a past, but the past does not define us.  And although we should not live in the past, it is better sometimes to remember the past so that we can recall how far God has brought us and so that we know we should never visit that area again.  We should also remember that whatever season we are in, no matter how hard it may be that it is just a season and it does not last forever.  There is a reason for it and perhaps there is something we need to learn from it.  So instead of despising it and cursing God for it, have a relationship with Him and find the reason for it.  Does that make sense?

I would even go so far as to say that no matter what you have done in the past remember that it is not your present nor is it your future, so do not let it define you.  I can only imagine the type of name and harlots I would be if everyone in the world knew about my past. But it is important that I remember that I do not live there any more even if the people that I knew back then still think that I do.

I have learned to see myself like God sees me despite past mistakes and despite people tying to remind me of who I used to be.  But the good thing about a really jacked up person with a really shaky past is that God likes to use them not to glorify them but to glorify Himself.  So everyone can see how jacked up you were and now your not, and therefore everyone will know that it has to be God that fixed you.  And this what we call, ladies and gentleman, a testimony.

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You can be Your Own Worst Enemy

Have you ever not thought that you did not struggle with something, but then suddenly you realize that you do?  I know that this may sound confusing but this has recently happened to me.  I used to pride myself on being confident and not caring about what other people think about me.  But that is really not the case.


I know you may be wondering how this happened and what in the world I am talking about? Well let me just give you a situation so that you can better get a grip on what I mean. I was in one of my PhD classes, many people who were older than my, more experienced then me, or had better careers than me.  All of a sudden this put my in a position to care about what they thought and to look at myself of being inadequate.  In all reality I was not inadequate, but for some reason I viewed myself this way.

So many times I look in the mirror and thing I am too fat, or wish my skin was clearer, or wish I could do something better or be better at this.  And the end result is me trying to make myself into something that cannot be achieve.  It was God that told me that I was my own worse critique.

What is crazy is that I thought I saw myself as God saw me.  But I don’t.  I think that God is proud of me, the way that I am, the things that I have done, and the things that I still want to do.  But it hard for me to look at it this way, the only thing I look at is all the things I have not done and then I get upset about it and beat up on myself about what a worthless person that I am.

I feel I am not finishing my PhD fast enough.  I am not losing weight fast enough, I am not this and I am not that.  I literally am exhausted about thinking about all of my shortcomings.  That I run myself ragged.  As I was speaking to God about it He told me that this was just the trickery of the devil.  He told me that the devil can pick up on just the smallest insecurities that you did not even know were there and run with it.  And if you do not shut it down, then you can fall pray to it and go into this cycle that I have found myself in, which is seeking perfection that does not exist.

I am not saying that you should not try to better yourself, but I am saying that when you are attempting to better yourself, appreciate your efforts and do not beat yourself up because you have not reached the top yet.  As long as you are still making the climb, God is satisfied with you.  And if He is satisfied with you, then you must be satisfied with yourself.

The Bible states

"Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations."  Jeremiah 1:5

God know you, He knew what He was doing when He made you .  Flaws and all, and guess what?  He loves you anyway. So it is about time that you recognize that and start loving yourself.  As imperfect people in an imperfect world we are always a work in progress.  And we always will be, no matter how high you go or how much you better yourself, there is always another set of problems that comes with it.  And if you allow these problems to overwhelm you all the time, then you will miss it.  You will miss the beauty of life that God wants you to see.  Sometimes there are beauty in your flaws.  Sometimes it is the shortcoming about you that set you apart.  So instead of rejecting your shortcoming, embrace them and figure out what God wants you to do with them.  Does that makes sense?  Hope so.