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The Greatest Irony of LOVE

Tuesday, February 01, 2005

I have this piece of paper which speaks of how ironic love can be, i always keep it on my purse but for some reason, i cudnt find it. Anyways, when a friend emailed me this, which is exactly d same from what i have, i posted it right away on my zorpia journal. And since this is d love month, i thought id share this with u guys as well. :)

'Tis for all of us who have loved and hurt, those who haven't loved at all and those who are just about to discover the beauty of this moving emotion.

~THE GREATEST IRONY OF LOVE~

The greatest irony of love is letting go

when you need to hold on

and holding on when you need

to let go.

When you think of your past love,

you may view it as a failure.

But when you find a new love,

you view the past as a teacher.

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 his or her 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'll never love a person you love

unless you risk 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

and 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 its 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 rejections;

to live is to risk dying,

to hope is to risk failure.

But risk must be taken because
the greatest hazard in life is risking nothing.

To reach for another is to risk involvement,

to expose your feelings is to expose 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

that 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 these were the things

which 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

because every time 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.

The Greatest Irony of LOVE

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