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Friday, November 27, 2009

Why Love Quote?

Love quote has always been part of my life and I have always enjoyed sharing the positive power and wisdom of love quote with family, friends and people around me.  I started collecting love quotes more than 7 years ago. I was preparing a gift for a special girl and was running out of gift idea. It could have been easier to just buy something, but it would not be 'special'. Finally, the most brilliant idea flashed across my mind; at least I thought it was. I counted the remaining number of days from the day I was to give her the gift to the end of that year which worked out to be 272 days.

So the search in the internet for 272 love quotes started and it took me several days to compile all the love quotes. After that, I started to write each and everyone of the love quote onto a small piece of paper (about 2cm x 2cm) and then folded each piece of the paper into a paper rabbit. When I was done with the writing and folding, I bought a crystal like apple, put all folded rabbits into it and added in dried flowers to give it a scent of 'romance'. The day when I passed her the gift, I told her, "if ever you are unhappy, just take out a rabbit, unfold it and read the love quote inside."

When we were talking recently , I asked her if she ever unfold a rabbit and read the love quote inside. She replied very surprise, "are there love quote inside the rabbits?" We had a good laugh.

Ever since I love collecting and sharing love quotes and also inspirational quotes with family and friends. And I have always received words of 'thank you' from them telling me how much some of these quotes have helped them along their life. I remember a quote which I came across a few years back, "The ability to share and to give yield greater pleasure than to receive." So based on this, I created Symphony of Love (with a very different touch) to share with you the Positive Power and Wisdom of Love Quotes.

Why Love Quotes?

Love Quotes can Spice up your Love Life
A lot of time, soft words of love can easily melt the toughest heart and make you a romantic if you are not one. Not only that, your relationships would surely spice up with a few quotes on love. It is said that love can make a poet of you. However, it is quite possible that you may be in love and yet not able to write any love poetry. If you do wish to be able to write something beautiful, love quotes could certainly be a good source of inspiration. Symphony of Love would give you your heart's fill of some of the most romantic thoughts and words.

Love Quotes can help in the Revival of your Love Life
Some love quotes have become great because they have infused and inspired the feelings of love in many people. Love quotes are sure to stir up not only love and romance in your heart but also in the hearts of those you love. As what Leo Buscaglia said, "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." Certain love quotes that we come across in a song, book, or movie have also change our attitude towards love and many of these love quotes have become universally accepted truths and common thoughts or ideas.

Love Quotes are the Wisdom of others
Love quotes are the insights of people, who like us, have learnt through their experience. Some of these love quotes are universally applicable precious words of wisdom from which lessons can be learnt. And we can continue to share this wisdom from love quotes with people around us so that they can benefit from love quotes too. Just as what Mother Teresa said, "We can do no great things; only small things with great love."

Love Quotes can make expressing the feeling of Love easier
Some said, "It is easy to fall in love." However, a lot of us would find expressing the feeling of love a whole lot more challenging than being in love. Are you one of those who experience the challenge too? Love quote makes it a whole lot easier for you to express the feeling of love. Love quotes inspire you to write something beautiful to express the feeling of love. One of the ways to express love is to write a love letter. If you are the creative and poetic type, then writing a love letter is probably effortless. However, if you are ordinary people like me who wants to pen a few lines for our beloved, then love quotes could be of much help. Love quotes help you to rise up to the occasion and fulfill the need of the hour especially when your mind failed to come up with words. One of a few good quotes is, "Love is like playing the piano. First you must learn to play by the rules, and then you must forget the rules and play from your heart."

Love Quotes can bring lovers closer
It is said that absence makes the heart grow fonder. This is probably why lovers who are apart spend most of their time thinking about each other. If you are living away from your beloved, then love quotes bring both of you closer at heart. As what Francois de La Rouchefoucauld said, "Absence diminishes small love and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire."

Love Quotes can bring a smile to your beloved
Love quotes can definitely bring a smile to the face of your family and friends. A few of the sweet and romantic love quotes are by John Clare, "I never saw so sweet a face. As that I stood before. My heart has left it dwelling place and can return no more." by Bill Wilson, "To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world." and by Alfred Lord Tennyson, "If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk in my garden forever." Use these love quotes to bring a smile to your love ones. You might be surprise too by the effect of these sweet love quotes.

Love Quotes can make Marriage Bliss
Most people would do good with a good love quotes at one time or another especially when they are talking to their loved ones. A good love quote uses at the right time can certainly improve the relationship with your beloved. Love quotes are words of wisdom in relationship. A few very good love quotes about marriage and relationship are by Benjamin Franklin, "Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.", by Theodore M. Hesburgh, "Love isn't blind; it just only sees what matters." and by Donald Laird, "To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart."

Love Quotes can heal a broken heart
Love quotes have a special 'healing' power for people
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Julie Marie said, "Love is the best medicine, and there is more than enough to go around once you open your heart." And Helen Keller said, "When one door of happiness closes, another opens: but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which had been opened for us."

Love Quotes can inspire you to live better life
Love quotes are an inspirational source that drives us forward in our life, helping us to stay afloat in rough seas and giving us the courage to pull through difficult times. A few of the inspirational love quotes which I like are: "In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities" by Janos Arnay, "Where there is love, there is life." by Mahatma Gandhi, "Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage." by Lao Tzu and "Who so loves believes the impossible." by Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

Get a free copy of Pictorial eBook of Love Quotes at: http://www.symphonyoflove.net/blog/182/paying-it-forward-at-symphony-of-love.html


Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Add Love Quote of the Day

 Do you want to add a "Love Quote of the Day" to your website or blog? Find out how you can do that at: http://www.symphonyoflove.net/blog/love-quote-of-the-day


Do feel free to give me a buzz if you are having any problem doing that. I would be happy to be of service to you.


Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Thanksgiving by Edgar Albert Guest

Since Thanksgiving is just a few days away. I would like to take this opportunity to wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving. Let us remember to give thanks and to express our gratitudes to our family and friends. As Ella Wheeler Wilcox said,

“…blessings are like friends, I hold, who love and labor near us. We ought to raise our notes of praise while living hearts can hear us.”
It certainly makes more sense for us to give sincere appreciation to our family and friends while they are still around. Read more at: http://www.symphonyoflove.net/blog/1188/thanksgiving-by-edgar-albert-guest.html


Friday, November 20, 2009

Living Happily Ever After Like in Fairy Tales

They met as five-year-old schoolchildren in 1929 and still in love after 80 years. Is this one of those fairy tales which promised ‘happily ever after?’ This is the story of Jim Hadwin and his wife Moira. They have been married for more than 61 years and despite spending their whole lives together, Jim insists they still love each other’s company. Fairy tale does come true in real life and the prince and the princess can live happily ever after.

The reality in life is the prince and the princess do argue like any couple but they also get on very well and know it would be silly to fall out over silly things. Their priority for marriage is the same - making it works.

Amy Bloom said, “Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together…” Like dancing, we need to understand that our partners are individuals with point of views which may differ from ours; a dance step or movement which feels good to us may not feel good to them. Many time we could be affecting our partners without realising it ourselves. Then we started blaming each other for making the “wrong” movements. We need to communicate clearly to each other to make the ‘dancing’ relationship in marriage works.

And marriage is definitely not the ‘end’ of a relationship. It is a lifelong commitment in the other person and the start of a lifelong courtship. There should always be new excitements; plan for little surprises which you know will bring smiles to your partner. Find time to appreciate each other’s presence and to spend time with each other, even when you have children. Continue to go out on dinner or movie dates. No, not with the children, but just the two of you. Find a babysitter or nanny if you have to. Just go on dates as a couple.

And like what Benjamin Franklin said, “Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.” We have to understand that no one is perfect in this world and we must learn to see the perfection in the imperfection of our partners.

Last but not least, I believe that we should also encourage each other to grow individually and to learn new things in life. I have always believe that even when a couple is married, the husband and wife should continue to have their own circle of friends who they can hang out with from time to time. Each should take time to take care of children and things at home and encourage his/her partner to go out with friends and to pick up new things. I believe by doing this, it will encourage personal growth. As in the poem ‘Marriage‘ by Kahlil Gibran, a united soul in two bodies.

What do you think? Should marry couple be bonded together at all time or should they have personal space? How do you keep your marriage going on year after year?


Thursday, November 12, 2009

What is that?

A friend shared this touching short film in Facebook. According to a user who posted the same short film in Youtube, it was made in Greek in 2007. With the help of Google, I found it being shown in the 30th Greek Short Film Festival in 2007.

“What is that?” is a short film directed by Constantin Pilavios about a conversation, between a father and his son, when sparrow landed in front of them.

There was an email, with a very similar story, which I received back in 2006. Whichever came first, I do not know. But I hope, through the conversation of the father and his son, we could all be brought back to the time when we were young. Did our parents not shower us with tender love and patience? Watch the film at: http://www.symphonyoflove.net/blog/1061/what-is-that-by-constantin-pilavios.html



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