When love hurts, you need discipline to stay the course.....

Discipline by Meryl Gordon


I am old and I have had
more than my share of good and bad.

I've had love and sorrow, seen sudden death
and been left alone and of love bereft.

I thought I would never love again
and I thought my life was grief and pain.

The edge between life and death was thin, 
but then I discovered discipline.

I learned to smile when I felt sad, 
I learned to take the good and the bad, 
I learned to care a great deal more
for the world about me than before.

I began to forget the "Me" and "I"
and joined in life as it rolled by: 
this may not mean sheer ecstasy
but is better by far than "I" and "Me.

"I understand now that the vulnerability I’ve always felt is the greatest strength a person can have. You can’t experience life without feeling life. What I’ve learned is that being vulnerable to somebody you love is not a weakness, it’s a strength."
- Elisabeth Shue

From the song 'When A Man Loves A Woman' by Michael Bolton:

When a man loves a woman,
Can't keep his mind on nothing else,
He'd trade the world
For the good thing he has found....
When a man loves a woman,
Deep down in his soul,
She can bring himsuch misery.

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"Love is vulnerability. Happiness is vulnerability. The risk of being vulnerable is the price of opening yourself to beauty and opportunity. Being vulnerable is not about showing the parts of you that are polished; it's about revealing the unpolished parts you would rather keep hidden from the world. It's about looking out into the world with an honest, open heart and saying, 'This is me. Take me or leave me.'"
- Unknown