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The Magic of Love Take time
Love is like magic, and it always will be,
For love still remains life’s sweet mystery.
Love works in ways that are wondrous and strange,
And there’s nothing in life that love cannot change!
Love can transform the most commonplace
Into beauty and splendour and sweetness and grace.
Love is unselfish, understanding and kind,
For it sees with its heart, and not with its mind.
Love is the answer that everyone seeks;
Love is the language that every heart speaks.
Love can’t be bought, it is priceless and free.
Love, like pure magic, is life’s sweet mystery! Take time to be gentle to each other
Remember, words harshly spoken trouble the spirit,
heart and mind.
Take time to talk to each other
The secret to understanding is in open communication.
Don’t be afraid to speak your mind, but listen in return
and listen careful, wisely and not selfishly.
Take time to remember why you chose one another,
and don’t try and change one another, but learn to grow
and value one another.
Take time to show respect, and be a friend to each other
Admiration can be seen by others, by that look, by that
smile, by that touch.
Be a good teacher, be a good student
You each have so much to share and offer one another.
Take time to be alone, so that you can gather your
innermost thoughts, and then share them with each
other when you’re together again.
Take time to disagree with one another. It clears the air,
and the lungs, and agree never to carry a row over to
tomorrow.
Remember, there are others in this world, don’t live only
for each other.
You are also part of family and have friends, don’t block
their love.
Lastly, take time to be loving, it’s what everyone needs
every hour, every day and for the rest of your lives.
Love each other, as we love you, today and always.
And go on your way, knowing there are others here today,
who love you almost as much as you love one another.
Helen Steiner Rice
From a Native
American Indian Ceremony
Anonymous
May the sun bring you new energy by day;
May the moon softly restore you by night.
May the rain wash away your worries
And the breeze blow new strength into your being,
And all the days of your life may you walk
Gently through the world and know its beauty.
Now you will feel no rain, for each of you will be shelter
for the other.
Now you will feel no cold, for each of you will be warmth
to the other.
Now there will be no more loneliness,
Now you are two persons, but there is one life before you.
Go now to your dwelling to enter into the days of your
life together,
And may your days be good and long upon the earth.
Anonymous
The Amber Spyglass
Phillip Pullman
“I will love you forever; whatever happens. Till I die
and after I die, and when I find my way out of the land
of the dead, I’ll drift about forever, all my atoms, till I
find you again… I’ll be looking for you, every moment,
every single moment. And when we do find each other
again, we’ll cling together so tight that nothing and
no one’ll ever tear us apart. Every atom of me and
every atom of you… We’ll live in birds and flowers and
dragonflies and pine trees and in clouds and in those
little specks of light you see floating in sunbeams…
And when they use our atoms to make new lives, they
won’t just be able to take one, they’ll have to take two,
one of you and one of me.”
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