Can You Say "I love you" Any Better?

What  Love means to a 4-8 year old . . Slow down for three minutes to read this.  It is so worth it.  Touching words  from the mouth of babes.  A  group of professional people posed this question to a group of 4 to 8  year-olds, 'What does love mean?' The answers they got  were broader and deeper than anyone could have imagined.  See what you  think: 'Love  is what makes you smile when you're tired.'  Terri - age  4 'Love  is when my mommy makes coffee for my daddy and she takes a sip before  giving it to him, to make sure the taste is OK.'  Danny - age  7 'Love  is when you kiss all the time. Then when you get tired of kissing, you  still want to be together and you talk more.  My Mommy and Daddy  are like that. They look gross when they kiss'  Emily - age  8 'Love  is what's in the room with you at Christmas if you stop opening presents  and listen.'  Bobby - age 7  (Wow!) 'If  you want to learn to love better, you should start with a friend who you  hate,'  Nikka - age 6  (we need a few million more  Nikka's on this planet)   'Love  is when you tell a guy you like his shirt, then he wears it  everyday.'  Noelle - age 7   'Love  is like a little old woman and a little old man who are still friends even  after they know each other so well.'  Tommy - age  6   'During  my piano recital, I was on a stage and I was scared. I looked at all the  people watching me and saw my daddy waving and smiling.  He  was the only one doing that. I wasn't scared anymore.' Cindy  - age 8   'My  mommy loves me more than anybody  You don't see anyone else  kissing me to sleep at night.'  Clare - age  6   'Love  is when Mommy gives Daddy the best piece of  chicken.'  Elaine-age 5   'Love  is when Mommy sees Daddy smelly and sweaty and still says he is handsomer  than Robert Redford.'  Chris - age  7   'Love  is when your puppy licks your face even after you left him alone all  day.'  Mary Ann - age 4   'I  know my older sister loves me because she gives me all her old clothes and  has to go out and buy new ones.'  Lauren - age  4   'When  you love somebody, your eyelashes go up and down and little stars come out  of you.' (what an image)  Karen - age  7   'Love  is when Mommy sees Daddy on the toilet and she doesn't think it's  gross.'  Mark - age 6   'You  really shouldn't say 'I love you' unless you mean it. But if you mean it,  you should say it a lot. People forget.'  Jessica - age  8   And  the final one -- Author and lecturer Leo Buscaglia once talked about a  contest he was asked to judge.  The  purpose of the contest was to find the most caring  child.  The  winner was a four year old child whose next door neighbor was an elderly  gentleman who had recently lost his  wife.  Upon  seeing the man cry, the little boy went into the old gentleman's yard,  climbed onto his lap, and just sat  there.  When  his Mother asked what he had said to the neighbor, the little boy  said,  'Nothing, I just helped him  cry'

Evening, Wisdom and Beauty

Love is an endless mystery,
for it has nothing else to explain it.
Rabindranath Tagore



Music fills the infinite between two souls.
Rabindranath Tagore



A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.
Robert Frost



Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
Robert Frost



Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.
Robert Frost



Education is hanging around until you've caught on.
Robert Frost

Evening, Wisdom and Beauty

Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.
Rumi



Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. Rumi



Look for the answer inside your question. Rumi



Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.
Rumi



Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.
Rumi

Evening, Wisdom and Beauty

What I need to live has been given to me by the earth. Why I need to live has been given to me by you. ~Author Unknown

 

True love stories never have endings. ~Richard Bach (Thanks, Bonnie)

 

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place. ~Zora Neale Hurston

 

Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. ~Emily Brontë

 

I do not want the peace that passeth understanding. I want the understanding which bringeth peace. ~ Helen Keller

Evening, Wisdom and Beauty

Giving up doesn't always mean you are weak; sometimes it means that you are strong enough to let go.



Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
Phillips Brooks




Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.
Will Rogers



Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
Margaret B. Runbeck



"In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities."
--Janos Arnay



"Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies."
--Aristotle

Evening, Wisdom and Beauty

The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.
Kahlil Gibran

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.
Leo Buscaglia



Comfort me with apples, for I am sick of love.
King Soloman



A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
Fr. Jerome Cummings



Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
Rose Franken

Evening, Wisdom and Beauty

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the gods.



Love means to love that which is unlovable,
or it is no virtue at all;
forgiving means to pardon the unpardonable,
or it is no virtue at all;
faith means believing the unbelievable,
or it is no virtue at all;
And to hope means hoping when things are hopeless,
or it is no virtue at all.
G.K. Chesterton.




Kindness in words creates confidence,
Kindness in thinking creates profoundness,
Kindness in giving creates love.
Lao-Tze.



The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
G. K. Chesterton



Love unexpressed is a crime against the heart.

Evening, Wisdom and Beauty

The foliage has been losing its freshness through the month of August, and here and there a yellow leaf shows itself like the first gray hair amidst the locks of a beauty who has seen one season too many. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes



It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship
and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual
affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it
will not be created for years or even generations.
~ Khalil Gibran ~



We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.



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 a person when you can't let go.
~ Dons ~



Love me for a reason, let the reason be love.

Evening, Wisdom, Love and Beauty

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place. ~Zora Neale Hurston



Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. ~Robert Frost



Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination. ~Voltaire



True love stories never have endings. ~Richard Bach



Love, and a cough, cannot be hid. ~George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum, 1651

Evening Wisdom, Thoughts and Beauty

 

What I need to live has been given to me by the earth. Why I need to live has been given to me by you.
~Author Unknown

 

Life can be found only in the present moment. The past is gone, the future is not yet here, and if we do not go back to ourselves in the present moment, we cannot be in touch with life.
Thich Nhat Hanh

 

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard

 

Trip over love, you can get up. Fall in love and you fall forever.
~Author Unknown

Evening, Wisdom, Love and Beauty

Do I love you because you're beautiful,
Or are you beautiful because I love you?
~Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, Cinderella



Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love. ~Albert Einstein



There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved. It is God's finger on man's shoulder. ~Charles Morgan



You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip. ~Jonathan Carroll, "Outside the Dog Museum"



Forget love - I'd rather fall in chocolate! ~Sandra J. Dykes

Evening Words, Wisdom, Love and Beauty

Life's not always fair. Sometimes you can get a splinter even sliding down a rainbow.
~Cherralea Morgen



Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower. ~Hans Christian Anderson



Love me and the world is mine.
~David Reed



The love game is never called off on account of darkness.
~Tom Masson