An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?

6 Types of Love

angelicheraldofdeath:

Eros
a passionate physical and emotional love based on aesthetic enjoyment; stereotype of romantic love

Ludus
a love that is played as a game or sport; conquest; may have multiple partners at once

Storge
an affectionate love that slowly develops from friendship, based on similarity

Pragma 
love that is driven by the head, not the heart

Mania
obsessive love; experience great emotional highs and lows; very possessive and often jealous lovers

Agape
selfless altruistic love; spiritual.

(Source: Wikipedia)

Sometimes the things you want the most don’t happen, and what you least expect happens. I don’t know - you meet thousands of people and none of them really touch you. And then you meet that one person, and your life is changed.

My heart longs to tell you how I feel towards you. I wish I could tell you just how much you have touched me. Just how much you have taught me. Just how much you’ve made me happy. Just how when you hold me, my body tingles. Just how when you smile at me, it touches my heart in such a way that no one else can ever come close to. Just how the way you love me makes me want to be a better person. Just the way I want nothing more than to be able to hold you everyday of my life, and how that alone would be enough. But, I can’t tell you all these; the way I truly feel them, because there aren’t enough words in this world that can truly explain just how I love you.

It’s hard to accept, but you can’t change the past. You can’t go back and manipulate things to the way you wanted them to happen. Because life’d be meaningless and boring and just not worth living. But you can change the future and that’s a beautiful thing about life. Yes, you will make mistakes. And yes, you will have bad days - but as long as you let the past go, you’ll have such a gorgeous and bright future ahead of you. Knowing that things were meant to happen. Knowing that each day you will learn something so that you keep growing to be a better person. Life is like a rope, twined in all its complexities and yet weaved into one marvelous stream that you have the chance you use something amazing from. So grab hold of it.

If Only

The family.  We were a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing toothpaste, coveting one another’s desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms, inflicting pain and kissing to heal it in the same instant, loving, laughing, defending, and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together. 

- Erma Bombeck

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Bouquet ideas

What is family? They were the people who claimed you. In good, in bad, in parts or in whole, they were the ones who showed up, who stayed in there, regardless. It wasn’t just about blood relations or shared chromosomes, but something wider, bigger. We have many families over time. Our family of origin, the family we created, and the groups you moved through while all of this was happening: friends, lovers, sometimes even strangers. None of them perfect and we couldn’t expect them to be. You can’t make any one person your world. The trick was to take what each could give you and build your world from it.

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Love cannot be forced. It comes out of heaven, unasked and unsought.

fuckyeahmovieclub:

Paige: I vow to help you love life, to always hold you with tenderness, and to have the patience that love demands. To speak when words are needed, and to share the silence when they’re not. To agree to disagree on red velvet cake, and to live within the warmth of your heart and always call it home.

Leo: I vow to fiercely love you in all your forms, now and forever. I promise to never forget that this is a once in a lifetime love. I vow to love you, and no matter what challenges might carry us apart, we will always find a way back to each other.

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Wedding Vows?

• Many people spend their lives searching for their soulmate, their one true love. Some people are lucky to find the person they can truly call the better half of themselves, while others spend the rest of their lives searching and never finding. I am happy to count myself among the lucky ones, because I certainly found you. I love you, (name of spouse). I know that you are the only one for me, my one true love. I am happy and I am grateful that you came into my life, that where others have spent their entire lives looking for the one, I have found you. And now that I have found you, I shall never let you go. I promise you, (name of spouse), that I shall hold you and cherish you and give you my heart, that I shall support you and care for you. Faithfully, I shall always stand steadfast at your side with your hand in mine, regardless of what life would bring to us. I take you now as my wife/husband, and I shall remain so for the rest of my life.
• I, (name), take you, (name of spouse), to be my [opt: lawfully wedded] (husband/wife), my constant friend, my faithful partner and my love from this day forward. In the presence of God, our family and friends, I offer you my solemn vow to be your faithful partner in sickness and in health, in good times and in bad, and in joy as well as in sorrow. I promise to love you unconditionally, to support you in your goals, to honor and respect you, to laugh with you and cry with you, and to cherish you for as long as we both shall live.
• I (name), take you (name of spouse) to be my (husband/wife), my partner in life and my one true love. I will cherish our union and love you more each day than I did the day before. I will trust you and respect you, laugh with you and cry with you, loving you faithfully through good times and bad, regardless of the obstacles we may face together. I give you my hand, my heart, and my love, from this day forward for as long as we both shall live.
• I, (name), take you, (name of spouse), to be my partner, loving what I know of you, and trusting what I do not yet know. I eagerly anticipate the chance to grow together, getting to know the (man/woman) you will become, and falling in love a little more every day. I promise to love and cherish you through whatever life may bring us.

Sources: A & B & C

Best Idea: Write my own, from the heart.

─ Wedding ─

theprettybrasstacks:

A wedding is an extremely personal thing. It’s about two people committing to stick together, through good and bad, but also through all the mediocre life hands out in between. It is a celebration of two people forming a union. It’s all about the love. Or at least, that’s what it should be about.

 

Beyond the sentimentality of the day and what it means, there is a multi million dollar a year industry churning out wedding after wedding. Even the most clear headed bride with a detailed vision of her day can easily get confused when picking vendors, putting together elements of the decor, and deciding which personal touches to add. Aside from the commitment itself, the most important thing about a wedding is not about how extravagant it is and how many dollars you spend, but that it speaks to your personality and that of your groom. Whatever your taste- modern, vintage, traditional, or rustic, whether your wedding is in a ballroom or your living room— your guests should walk away clearly seeing the vision you intended, with elements of your unique story interwoven throughout. After all, those little details are what will make your celebration different from millions of other weddings and make it stand out in your guests’ mind. Most of all though, it will make your love story come alive and create a one-of-a-kind expression of the promises you are making to one another on the most significant day of your lives.

(Source: theprettybrasstacks)