in this life it takes 3 seconds to say " i love you ," 3 minutes to explain it , 3 hours to demonstrate it , 3 days to appreciate it , + a lifetime to prove it . the hardest part in loving is when you can only view the person you love from a distance & not being able to hold their hand , embrace them tight , & tell them how much you love them , because to them , you're only their friend . watching you from a distance , afraid to get too close , hoping that you'd realize who loved you the most . but unless you open your eyes to the one who's always there , you'll never realize that i'm the one who cares . the test of true love is having all the things go wrong but still having a special way to love despite all the wrong things that may happen . love isn't about becoming somebody else's " perfect person " its about finding someone who helps you become the best person you can be . love until it hurts , and when it hurts , love some more . and when it hurts some more , LOVE EVEN MORE , and when it hurts even more , love until it hurts no more . love is the extremely difficult realization that someone other than oneself is real . you can't make someone love you . all you can do is be someone who can be loved . the rest is up to the person to realize your worth . love is a commitment , not a feeling . romance is not love . if i love you because you're beautiful , that's romance . but if you're beautiful because I love you , that's love . never take love for granted because the best thing in this world is knowing that you are loved . so if you have someone special , hold that person close to your heart . we lose someone we love only when we are destined to find someone else who can love us more than we can . when we are in love , we often doubt that which we most believe . love knows no reason , love knows no lies . love defies all reasons , love has no eyes . but love is not blind , love sees but does not mind . what lips hide , the eyes reveal . people say " i love you " just for the sake of saying it , some just for pity , & some because they promised . when you think real hard , the people who find it so hard to say are usually the ones who mean it . love is everything its cracked up to be . its worth waiting for , worth being brave for , and you know what ? if you don't risk anything , you risk even more . what is love ? those who don't like it call it a responsibility , those who play with it call it a game , those who don't have it call it a dream , those who love call it a destiny . in times of darkness , love sees . in times of silence , love hears . in times of doubt , love hopes . in times of sorrow , love heals . and in all times , love starts within yourself . love is sometimes denied , sometimes lost , sometimes unrecognized . but in the end always found with no regrets , forever valued , kept and treasured . whenever , wherever ,
