When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness. In order for people to be happy, sometimes they have to take risks. It's true these risks can put them in danger of being hurt, but happiness and love are worth it...

If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us least live so as to deserve it.
Immanuel Hermann Fichte

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
Storm Jameson

Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.
The laws of Manu

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885), Les Miserables, 1862

The wise and the foolish realize that love is both constant and fleeting. But to truly feel love, one must give it away, not in hope that it be returned, but for the joy of giving it away..... in doing so it will be returned eventually ten-fold.

"When sailing the seas of love, keep a firm hand on the wheel, for the turmoils of life will blow as often as the winds of passion."

For all those that find and lose love.....

Random thoughts for troubled times...

I don’t think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
Karen Sunde

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.
Jean Anouilh (1910 - 1987)

Love is an irresistable desire to be irresistably desired.
Robert Frost (1874 - 1963)

I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

"A tear for the world's that keep us apart
and a smile for the God's that brought us together."

-- something I learned from a special friend....