love..

This sometimes how I feel when I am trying to find the perfect job or love.

Climbing up a cliff vertically, at least with harnesses on! (A photo of a friend)

Sure could do with some inspiration today... Why is it that some days you feel so much energy for living, and other days, you feel sad and really there is no reason for you to feel down. I look inside myself and I do kind of know the reason, but part of me can't seem to fix it. Try to and yet it feels worse in a way. Just feeling down and no explanation, well, that is a different story, but if you really look into yourself, I think you will find the answer, whether it lies in work, friends, family or in a majority of cases, love. Ahh, love, what would we do without it? Love makes the world go around and if there wasn't any love, then heck, we would live in a pretty dismal world.

They say we should give love and not expect any of it back. Perhaps that is what I am not doing; giving love freely.. hmm.. am I charging for it then? Hmm.. how can one charge for true love. If we could buy it, sure, but I think true love is priceless. It is one of those special things in life that we cannot buy (like our health), and love comes to you when you least expect it. Then is love like luck?

I guess, we should never give up on love and always believe in love, as the power of love is so strong that it will come to you no matter how far or distant you may be. How and when it comes to you, is a different story, but the universe knows when and how and you just have to be recipient to it.

That's my three and a half cents for the day. Feel free to write any comments about love to enlighten me with. Always happy to hear stories of love and how it found you.

Free love? As if love is anything but free! Man has bought brains, but all the millions in the world have failed to buy love.

Man has subdued bodies, but all the power on earth has been unable to subdue love.

Man has conquered whole nations, but all his armies could not conquer love.

Man has chained and fettered the spirit, but he has been utterly helpless before love.

High on a throne, with all the splendor and pomp his gold can command, man is yet poor and desolate, if love passes him by.

And if it stays, the poorest hovel is radiant with warmth, with life and color.

Thus love has the magic power to make of a beggar a king. Yes, love is free; it can dwell in no other atmosphere.

Emma Goldman

and I just wanted to add another quote, since I found this one quite good too, and on the topic of love..

Infantile love follows the principle: "I love because I am loved.

"Mature love follows the principle: "I am loved because I love.

"Immature love says: "I love you because I need you.

"Mature love says: "I need you because I love you."

Erich Fromm