Aug 22 '10 20 Love Quotes to Celebrate the First Day of Spring

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Spring will be here before you know it and love is in the air, so let’s celebrate with 20 great love quotes to announce the arrival of the season on March 20th! The grass will be green soon and the mounds of snow will become a distant memory. The birds will chirp, the butterflies will flutter. Here are 20 wonderful love quotes to celebrate such a wondrous time of year.

1. “O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day; which now shows all the beauty of the sun, and by and by a cloud takes all away.”
~ William Shakespeare

2. “Her love was entire as a child’s, and though warm as summer it was fresh as spring.”
~ Thomas Hardy

3. “Enjoy the Spring of Love and Youth, to some good angel leave the rest; For Time will teach thee soon the truth, there are no birds in last year’s nest!”
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

4. “Love’s gentle spring doth always fresh remain.”
~ William Shakespeare

5. “For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.”
~ Judy Garland

6. “I love you not because of who you are, but because of who I am when I am with you.”
~ Roy Croft

7. “What lies behind us, and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

8. “How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?”
~ Albert Einstein

9. “Love, like a river, will cut a new path whenever it meets an obstacle.”
~ Crystal Middlemas

10. “Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.”
~ D.H.Lawrence

11. “In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.”
~ Janos Arany

12. “In the spring a young man’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love.”
~ Alfred, Lord Tennyson

13. “To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.”
~ Anne-Sophie Swetchine

14. “To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.”
~ David Viscott

15. “When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.”
~ J. K. Rowling

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

17. “Let your love be like the misty rains, coming softly, but flooding the river.”
~Malagasy Proverb

18. “Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense.” ~ Mark Overby

19. “Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.”
~Peter Ustinov

20. “They who meet on an April night are forever lost in love, if there’s moonlight all about and there’s no moon above.”
~E.Y. “Yip” Harburg and Fred Saidy

Get ready for Spring — and get ready for romance! On March 20th we’ll kiss Winter goodbye and say hello to a much sweeter season. The above 20 love quotes will help you prepare yourself for all spring has to offer.

Aug 15 '10 True Love Should Withstand All Just Like First Love

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It is difficult to confidently say true love exists today. This is the age that has experienced the highest rates of divorce in the history of the world. True love sounds like a fairy tale of the yesteryears to the citizens of the developed world. Changing values in life have overridden the traditional values of love, relationships and marriage. Even first love, which is real and a love calculator, is yet to be reincarnated.  This is also the age that has the highest cases of young single parents since the creation and commissioning of this planet. The inhabitants of this world are no longer in touch with reality, they live in utopia. It is a pseudo world. Media rules the world, setting the pace and the trends, fueling peoples imaginations and fantasies to unprecedented levels. Some of the things receiving so much media hype can only happen in Hollywood.

True love still exists, but in some remote pockets of this world. Areas that have withstood the devastating effects of modern technology, changing values, selfishness and media madness. Tradition in these areas has been upheld and family values are still intact. the Orients are good examples of people who do not know of any other love apart from true love. First love is also a reality here as love calculators are well defined. It is such reassuring evidence that shows there is still a ray of hope and people can create love that is pure and true. If only people can discard that mind set that there is no true love. True love is not a preserve of Latino soaps, You can make it happen in your life.

Natural chemistry and compatibility between partners are the most basic ingredients for true love. It makes partners to find a common ground which they can identify with each other. No two people are alike and that is why people who are unlike always attract each other. It is chemistry at work. Differences only serve to bring diversity in a relationship and make it more attractive. The ability to accommodate each other’s weaknesses, failures, faults and shortcomings is the secret behind any true and loving relationship. True love just like first love dwells on the strengths of a partner and magnifies them to overshadow the weaknesses wherever they rear their ugly heads. It is a love that does not look for perfection but rather looks for harmony. A perfect love calculator.

First love is a mimicry of true love. To find cohesion between two people, both partners cede a lot of ground for each other. Personal egos are relegated to the periphery. Some values, interests and perceptions are compromised by both sides until they arrive at a common ground. It is not a master servant relationship but an equal companionship which is a respected love calculator. This is not an easy venture. It calls for resilience, dedication and unwavering patience. True love is nurturing and full of tender loving care. Love that is meant to be waited. It never tires, it always offers room for a second and even third chance. It never dies.

Aug 07 '10 Some Experiences in My First True Love

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Everyone remembers their first true love. Perhaps this is because you did everything special for the first time together. Your first true love would be the first person you ever kissed for the first time. They are probably the ones that made your heart beat loud and fast every time you saw them around and when they touched your hands, you went speechless. They could also be the only ones who made everything stand still. Your first true love could have got you into a lot of trouble. The first time I ever disobeyed my parents was when my first true love came into my life.

My first true love taught me the most memorable of all lessons. I call him my first true love because I truly loved him. You might have noticed that I used the past tense here; this is because I am no longer with my first true love. It is very sad that he left, but let’s not get into that now. First, let me tell you what my true love taught me. My first true love taught me to be patient, understanding and all the good values of life. In fact, when I look back at my life with my first true love, there was never a day that went by without him not teaching me a valuable lesson.

My first true love taught me almost everything and though he is no longer with me, I will always live to appreciate it. Before I met him, I was selfish and self centered. Everything had to be mine. When my first true love came into my life, he slowly started teaching me about love. He made sure that I understood that there were different kinds of love. He taught me that love is never jealous and above all, it is never selfish. Without realizing it, I was learning from him. I was still the bad person that I was and one day he was gone!

My first true love left me, yes he left me. Even though he left, I still call him my first true love. This is because I do believe with all my heart that he was my first true. They say that your true love never leaves, they do. Sometimes you have to let someone go before they realize that you were actually important? That is what my first true love did to me. I never thought he was that important. After he left, I realized that he really was important and I was really hurt. The funny part about all the lessons I learnt from my true love is that. I realized that he was actually teaching me after he left. Before that, I did not see the lessons he was trying to put across. I was just too thick at that time to get it. The people who have come into my life after my first true love have had better treatment from me than my first true love. I look back at our love and wonder why it had to end, but I am not sorry, I learnt a lot from it.

Jul 10 '10 Want True Love? Define It First

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True love. Most of us search high and low for true love in that one ideal relationship. We struggle over it and with it, yearn for it, craft books, music, and poems about it–all without a clear understanding of what we seek or why we want it so desperately.

We’re not even sure what love is. How do we define it? The definition of love is as unique and as varied as every individual who experiences it. That’s a big part of the problem. Love feels different for each person. So how do we tell if the one we love actually returns the favor? After all, our loved one may offer us love that does not quite feel like what we know as love.

To clear up at least some of the confusion, let us establish a basic definition for true love. The truest, purest love is unconditional. Such love is also the simplest form of love because it has no hooks, no standards, no expectations, no conditions attached to it whatsoever. No complications, no hidden clauses or agendas, no restraints or exceptions.

Unconditional love is true love, and unconditional love is healing and uplifting–the ultimate source of all life. True/unconditional love sustains and nurtures life, joy, peace, and freedom. That is why we look so hard for true love. Deep in our souls, we long to be free, loved, and secure.

The very simplicity of unconditional/true love is also the source of its power. Lacking all limitations, unconditional love is limitless and endless. Unconditional love is simply another way of saying God, the infinite, the divine, the source, known by many names. Every major religion, in fact, asserts that God is love.

Unconditional love–God in other words–is so simple that most of us find it very suspicious if not downright impossible to understand or accept. We’re certain there has to be a catch somewhere, just as we’re convinced that some people, somehow and in some way, have done something so horrible or unforgiveable that they no longer merit God’s or anyone else’s love.

Do we damn child abusers? What about terrorists who cause death on a mass scale? Do we condemn corporate polluters? Illegal drug users? Homosexuals? Christian fundamentalists? Those of differing faiths or races?

Our personal litany of the unlovable/unforgiveable says far more about the limitations of our love than about anyone else. It also shows us that the love we give and receive is constricted and diminished by judgments, standards, or expectations. Once we impose even one tiny judgment, standard, or expectation on love, it devolves away from being true/unconditional.

Trapped in the painful web of conditional love, we devote our time and energy to looking for love in all the wrong places. We keep hoping to find true love somewhere–out there–outside of ourselves, in someone else’ eyes.

But that is not the place to find true love. Only when we look within will we find what we truly seek–love that heals and sustains us and can even help heal our world.

Jun 27 '10 Problem-Solving Success Tip: Define the Problem First

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Define the Problem First.
It seems obvious, but how many times have we gone to a problem-solving meeting and the discussion started with either whose fault was it or an assertion about the proper solution?

Explain what the problem is—what went wrong, what are the symptoms, what is the impact on your business and your customer’s business. These are the things that someone knows at this point in the problem solving process. If the someone is not you, and you’re leading the problem-solving effort, you need to do some research to find out. No guesses or assumptions allowed: the problem description must give the facts clearly and accurately.

Write it down. Writing the problem down forces you to describe it carefully, completely and unambiguously. The statement is a valuable tool to help focus your team on the real problem and avoid wasting time on extraneous issues. Everyone who reads it should understand what the problem is and why it’s important. No jumping ahead, either: you don’t know yet what caused the problem much less what you will do to fix it.

The written statement can also be used as a “sales tool” to explain what problem you’re solving and why it’s important. Use it to make sure you have the support you’ll need from management, your customer and any other key players. This is especially important if the significance of the problem is not universally understood or accepted.

The problem is defined when everybody who reads your problem statement, including you, understands what will be different when the problem is solved and your team agrees that it describes the correct problem.

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