"To love is to receive a glimpse of Heaven."

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11 Rules to Always Follow:

• Give people more than they expect and do it cheerfully.

• When you say, "I love you," mean it.

• When you say, "I'm sorry," look the person in the eye.

• Believe in love at first sight.

• Love deeply and passionately. You may get hurt, but it's the only way to live life completely.

• Don't judge people by their relatives, or by the life they were born into.

• Marry a person you love to talk to. As you get older, his/her conversational skills will be even more important.

• Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.

• Don't just listen to what someone is saying.  Listen to why they are saying it.

• Don't trust anyone who doesn't close his/her eyes when you kiss.

• Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.

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The Beauty of a Woman

The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears,
The figure that she carries, or the way she combs her hair.

The beauty of a woman must be seen from in her eyes,
Because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides.

The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mole,
But true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul.

It is the caring that she lovingly gives, the passion that she shows,
And the beauty of a woman with passing years -- only grows!

Author Unknown
In Celebration of Women's History Month
Submitted by SassyLD

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Methods of Love

• Kiss on the ear = "I'm Horny"

• Kiss on the cheek = "We're Friends"

• Kiss on the hand = "I Adore You"

• Kiss on the shoulder = "I Want You"

• Kiss on the lips = "I Love You"

• Kiss on everywhere else = "Let's get Busy"

• Holding hands = "We Can Learn To Love Each Other"

• A wink = "Let's Get It On"

• Slap on the butt = "Watch Out"

• Playing with the ear = "I Can't Live Without You"

• Arms around the waist = "I Love You To Much To Let Go"

• Pulling hair on head = "Tell Me You Love Me"

• Looking into each other's eyes = "Let's Get Romantic"

• Holding on tight = "Don't Let Go"

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Natural Highs:   Falling in love.  Laughing so hard your face hurts.   A hot shower. No lines at the Super Walmart.  A special glance.  Getting mail.  Taking a drive on a pretty road.  Hearing your favorite song on the radio.   Lying in bed listening to the rain outside.  Hot towels out of the dryer. Walking out of your last final.  Finding the sweater you want is on sale for half price.  Chocolate milkshake. A long distance phone call.  Getting invited to a dance.  A bubble bath.  Giggling.  A good conversation.  A care package.  The beach.  Finding a $20 bill in your coat from last winter. Laughing at yourself.  Midnight phone calls that last for hours.  Running through sprinklers. Laughing for absolutely no reason at all.  Having someone tell you that you're beautiful.  Laughing at an inside joke.  Friends.  Falling in love for the first time.  Slumber parties.  Accidentally overhearing someone say something nice about you.  Waking up and realizing you still have a few hours left to sleep.   Your first kiss.  Being part of a team.  Making new friends or spending time with old ones.  Playing with a new puppy.  Late night talks with your roommate that keep you from sleeping. Having someone play with your hair.  Sweet dreams.  Hot chocolate.  Road trips with friends.  Swinging on swings.   Watching a good movie cuddled up on a couch with someone you love.  Wrapping presents under the Christmas tree while eating cookies and drinking eggnog.  Song lyrics printed inside your new CD so you can sing along without feeling stupid.   Going to a really good concert.  Getting butterflies in your stomach every time you see that one person.  Making eye contact with a cute stranger.  Winning a really competitive game.  Making chocolate chip cookies!  Having your friends send you homemade cookies!  Spending time with close friends!  Running through the fountains with your friends.  Riding a bike downhill.  The feeling after running a few miles-an accomplishment!  The feeling you get the first time you step on stage.  Seeing smiles and hearing laughter from your friends...Holding hands with someone you care about.  Wearing your boyfriend's shirt that still smells like his cologne.  Running into an old friend and realizing that some things (good or bad) never change.  Discovering that love is unconditional and stronger than time.   Riding the best roller coasters over and over.  Hugging the person you love.   Watching the expression someone's face as they open a much-desired present from you.  Kisses on your forehead from the first and only boy you have ever loved.   Watching the sunrise.  Getting out of bed every morning and thanking God for another beautiful day.

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A Real Man Would Do These Things For His Girl

• Call her the next day.

• Always laugh at her jokes.

• Tell her (truthfully) that you can't  wait to see her again.

• Offer her a back rub, without asking for one in return.

• Call her just to say you were thinking about her.

• Bring her a teddy bear and chicken soup when she's sick.

• Write her a poem.

• Slow dance with her (not only on a dance floor).

• Bring her flowers for no reason.

• Send her a (handwritten) letter just to say hello.

• Always remember your anniversaries and bring her something sweet.

• Kiss her in the middle of a sentence.

• Take her for a walk at sunset and stay to look up at the stars.

• Tell her something about you that no one else knows.

• Remind her that you still think she's beautiful.

• Take a bubble bath together.

• Watch a sappy movie with her.

• Surprise her with a candlelight dinner.

• Never stop trying to impress her.

• Tell her you love her.

• Never forget how much she means to you.

• Give her great big hugs for no reason.

Submitted by Lanzelot

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Love Before Meeting

    John Blanchard stood up from the bench, straightened his Army uniform, and studied the crowd of people making their way through Grand Central Station. He looked for the girl whose heart he knew, but whose face he didn't, the girl with the rose.
    His interest in her had begun thirteen months before in a Florida library. Taking a book off the shelf he found himself intrigued, not with the words of the book, but with the notes penciled in the margin handwriting reflected a thoughtful soul and insightful mind. In the front of the book, he discovered the previous owner's name, Miss Hollis Maynell. With time and effort he located her address. She lived in New York City. He wrote her a letter introducing himself and inviting her to correspond. The next day he was shipped overseas for service in World War II.
    During the next year and one month the two grew to know each other through the mail. Each letter was a seed falling on a fertile heart. A romance was budding. Blanchard requested a photograph, but she refused. She felt that if he really cared, it wouldn't matter what she looked like.
    When the day finally came for him to return from Europe, they scheduled their first meeting - 7:00 PM at the Grand Central Station in New York. "You'll recognize me," she wrote, "by the red rose I'll be wearing on my lapel."  So at 7:00 he was in the station looking for a girl whose heart he loved, but whose face he'd never seen. I'll let Mr. Blanchard tell you what happened:
    A young woman was coming toward me, her figure long and slim. Her blonde hair lay back in curls from her delicate ears; her eyes were blue as flowers. Her lips and chin had a gentle firmness, and in her pale green suit she was like springtime come alive. I started toward her, entirely forgetting to notice that she was not wearing a rose. As I moved, a small, provocative smile curved her lips. "Going my way, sailor?" she murmured. Almost uncontrollably I made one step closer to her, and then I saw Hollis Maynell. She was standing almost directly behind the girl. A woman well past 40, she had graying hair tucked under a worn hat. She was more than plump, her thick-ankled feet thrust into low-heeled shoes. The girl in the green suit was walking quickly away.
    I felt as though I was split in two, so keen was my desire to follow her, and yet so deep was my longing for the woman whose spirit had truly companioned me and upheld my own. And there she stood. Her pale, plump face was gentle and sensible, her gray eyes had a warm and kindly twinkle. I did not hesitate. My fingers gripped the small worn blue leather copy of the book that was to identify me to her. This would not be love, but it would be something precious, something perhaps even better than love, a friendship for which I had been and must ever be grateful. I squared my shoulders and saluted and held out the book to the woman, even though while I spoke I felt choked by the bitterness of my disappointment.
    "I'm Lieutenant John Blanchard, and you must be Miss Maynell. I am so glad you could meet me; may I take you to dinner?"
    The woman's face broadened into a tolerant smile. "I don't know what this is about, son," she answered, "but the young lady in the green suit who just went by, she begged me to wear this rose on my coat. And she said if you were to ask me out to dinner, I should tell you that she is waiting for you in the big restaurant across the street. She said it was some kind of test!"
    It's not difficult to understand and admire Maynell's wisdom. The true nature of a heart is seen in its response to the unattractive. "Tell me whom you love," Houssaye wrote, "And I will tell you who you are."

Author Unknown
Submitted by Bubba

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When love is your greatest weakness, you will be the strongest person in the world. -- Garman Wold

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Don't go for looks, it can deceive. Don't go for wealth - even that fades away.  Go for someone who makes you smile because only a smile makes a dark day seem bright.

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Love is when you take away the feeling, the passion, the romance and you find out you still care for that person.

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The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not twist them with our own image - otherwise, we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.

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Maybe God wants us to meet a few wrong people before meeting the right one so that when we finally do meet the right person, we should know how to be grateful for that gift.

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Just because two people argue, it doesn't mean they don't love each other.  And just because they don't argue, it doesn't mean they do.

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There 
To focus 
In the beauty 
Of your face 
Before me 
For I have found 
Sparkling aglow 
Your starlit eyes 
Didn’t lie 
Upon 
Flickering light 
As I walked 
Into your 
Shadow 
Of love

Author Unknown
Submitted by RH

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There are moments in life when you really miss someone so much that you want to pick them from your dreams and hug them for real.

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"Sprinkle love with forgiveness and forgiveness with love."

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It takes a minute to have a crush on someone, an hour to like someone, and a day to love someone - but it takes a lifetime to forget someone.

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A sad thing about life is that sometimes you meet someone who means a lot to you only to find out in the end that it was never meant to be and you just have to let go.

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Love starts with a smile, develops with a kiss and ends with a tear.

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Love comes to those who still hope even though they've been disappointed; to those who still believe even though they've been betrayed; to those who still need love even though they've been hurt before.

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It hurts to love someone and not be loved in return, but what is the most painful is to love someone and never finding the courage to let the person know how you feel.

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Never say goodbye when you still want to try - never give up when you still feel you can take it - never say you don't love that person anymore when you can't let go.

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Giving someone all your love is never an assurance that they'll love you back!  Don't expect love in return, just wait for it to grow in their hearts; but if it doesn't, be content that it grew in yours.

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I've learned that regardless of how hot and steamy a relationship is at first, the passion fades and there had better be something else to take its place.

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"If you have love, you don't need to have anything else.
If you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have."

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If love isn't a game, why are there so many players?

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"Shawn makes me feel loved all the time. She never stops letting me know that she loves me. She tells me. She shows me. I do silly things, and she doesn't make fun; I do serious things and she makes fun, and I adore it. I never minded aloneness before. If the woman I was with said, 'I'm busy', I'd say, 'Fine', and I really meant it. I always had plenty to do. With Shawn, I don't like to be without her. I miss her. I understand aloneness for the first time, and I don't want it."

-- Larry King, talk show host,
About his wife Shawn Southwick King, a singer and infomercial host.

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Don't cry over anyone who won't cry over you.

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What do you do when the only person who can make you stop crying is the person who made you cry?

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The hardest thing to do is watch the one you love, love somebody else.

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Don't frown, cause you never know who is falling in love with your smile.

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Nobody is perfect until you fall in love with them.

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Most people walk in and out of you life, but only friends leave footprints in your heart.

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An Evening Prayer

Now I lay me down to sleep
I pray for a man, who's not a creep.
One who's handsome, smart and strong.
He's not afraid to admit when he is wrong.
One who thinks before he speaks.
When he promises to call, he doesn't wait 6 weeks.

I pray that he is gainfully employed,
Won't lose his cool when he's annoyed.
Pulls out my chair and opens my door
Massages my back and begs to do more.

Oh! Send me a man who will make love to my mind
Knows what to say when I ask "How fat is my behind?"
One who'll make love till my body's a' itchin'.
He brings me a sandwich TOO when he goes to the kitchen.

I pray that this man will love me to no end
And would never compare me with my best friend.

Thank you in advance and now I'll just wait
For I know You will send him before it's too late.

Amen

Submitted by Seps32

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Romance Mathmatics:
Smart man + smart woman = romance
Smart man + dumb woman = affair
Dumb man + smart woman = marriage
Dumb man + dumb woman = pregnancy

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Thinking of sending roses to a loved one,
but not sure what color to send?

RED is for Love, Passion, Respect and Courage.
WHITE is for Innocence, Purity, Secrecy.
YELLOW is for Joy, Friendship
CORAL is for Desire.
LIGHT PINK is for Grace, Gladness, Joy
DARK PINK is for Thankfulness
LAVENDER is for Love at First Site, Enchantment
ORANGE is for Fascination

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