From the song 'Love Is A Wonderful Thing' by Michael Bolton:

Love is a wonderful thing,
Make you smile through the pouring rain.
Love is a wonderful thing,
I'll say it again and again.
Turn your world into one sweet dream,
Take your heart and make it sing,
Love, love is a wonderful thing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_ezMbv2sr4

"All, everything that I understand, I only understand because I love."
- Leo Tolstoy

"After observing the loved and the unloved, we found the loved ones rarely tried to manipulate others."
- W. W. Broadbent, Md, PhD

"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage."
- Lao Tzu

"Tell me whom you love and I will tell you who you are."
- Houssaye

"We are shaped and fashioned by those we love."
- Geothe

MainMessageForToday
The ones we love affect, shape and mould us.

Song 'If You Don't Know Me By Now' by Simply Red:

All the things that we've been through,
You should understand me like I understand you.
...
If you don't know me by now,
You will never ever ever know me.

https://youtu.be/zTcu7MCtuTs

"Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known. And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love."
- Holy Bible, 1 Corinthians 13:4-13

"Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough.  Not only have I found that when I talk to the little flower or to the little peanut they will give up their secrets, but I have found that when I silently commune with people they give up their secrets also--if you love them enough."
- George Washington Carver

"They say love is blind, but I call that infatuation or foolishness. True love can see, because if it can't or doesn't, it may very well end up with something that is far from true love."
- Jedley Manimtim

"Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality."
- Viktor Frankl

"I don't pretend to know what love is for everyone, but I can tell you what it is for me; love is knowing all about someone, and still wanting to be with them more than any other person, love is trusting them enough to tell them everything about yourself, including the things you might be ashamed of, love is feeling comfortable and safe with someone, but still getting weak knees when they walk into a room and smile at you."
- Unknown

MainMessageForToday
Loving a person leads to deep knowledge and understanding of that person. Beware of people who use love like a weapon.

Theme for the week 5/8 - 5/14: Love (cont'd).