Love Chooses

If you find yourself in love with someone who does not love you,
be gentle with yourself.
There is nothing wrong with you.
Love just didn't choose to rest in the other person's heart.

If you find someone else in love with you and you don't love him,
feel honored that love came and called at your door,
but gently refuse the gift you cannot return.
Do not take advantage, do not cause pain.

How you deal with love is how you deal with you,
and all our hearts feel the same pains and joys,
even if our life and ways are different.

If you fall in love with another, and he falls in love with you,
and the love chooses to leave, do not try to reclaim it or to assess blame.
Let it go. There is a reason and there is a meaning.
You will know in time.

Remember that you don't choose love. Love chooses you.
All you can really do is accept it for all its mystery when it comes into our life.
Feel the way it fills you to overflowing,
then reach out and give it away.

Give it back to the person who brought it alive in you.
Give it to others who deem it poor in spirit.
Give it to the world around you in any way you can.

There is where many lovers go wrong.
Having been so long without love, they understand love only as a need.
They see their hearts as empty places that will be filled by love,
and they begin to look at love as something that flows to them rather than from them.

The first blush of new love is filled to overflowing,
but as their love cool,
they revert to seeing their love as need,
they cease to be someone who generates love and instead become someone who seeks love.

Remember this, and keep it to your heart.
Love has its own time, its own seasons, and its own reason
for coming and going.

You cannot bribe it or coerce it,
or reason it into saying.
You can only embrace it when it arrives
and give it away when it comes to you.

But if it chooses to leave from your heart
or from the heart of your lover,
there is nothing you can do and there is nothing
you should do.

Love has always been, and will always be a mystery.
Be glad that it came to live for a moment, in your life.

If you keep your heart open, it will come again.

Cinta Yang Agung

Adalah ketika kamu menitikkan air mata
dan masih peduli terhadapnya
Adalah ketika dia tak mempedulikanmu
dan kamu masih menunggunya dengan setia

Adalah ketika dia mulai mencintai orang lain
dan kamu masih bisa tersenyum sembari berkata
"Aku turut berbahagia untukmu"

Apabila cinta tak berhasil bebaskan dirimu
Biarkan hatimu kembali melebarkan sayapnya
dan terbang ke alam bebas lagi
Ingatlah bahwa kamu mungkin menemukan cinta
dan kehilangannya

Tapi ketika cinta itu mati
kamu tidak perlu mati bersamanya
Orang terkuat bukan mereka yang selalu menang
Melainkan mereka yang tetap tegar ketika mereka jatuh

(Kahlil Gibran)

The Feeling In My Heart and In My Mind

The first time we talked there was something about you
As we talked on the phone you had my full attention
I lingered on your voice hoping you would say those five words
And when you did I was so overwhelmed I missed it

The next day when I got to hang out with you was more than I ever expected
When I looked into your eyes I knew there was nowhere else I wanted to be
Lying in your arms I realized that I might never get the chance to feel this way again
So I decided that if being with you was a risk then I was willing to take it

After I left that night so many thoughts ran through my head
I wondered if you were feeling exactly the same way I was
I wanted to know what it was that was going on inside your head
I was hoping that what I was feeling was more than just butterflies in my stomach

I spent the whole night wondering what would happen next
I realized that nothing was like I ever expected it to be
Even though I had put up a wall to keep all those others on the outside
You found the one little crack and seemed to work your way inside

Once I figured out what was truly going on inside my heart
There were so many things that I wanted to say to you
I wanted to let you know how much you truly meant to me
I wanted to tell you that I wasn’t sure if I could make it without you

But at first I just couldn’t find the words to say exactly how I feel
I was afraid to let you know that you had found a way inside
I was worried that if I let you know how I felt you wouldn’t feel the same way
But I took a risk and let you know how much you truly meant to me

Now that you know how I feel I’m so scared that you’ll just fade away
But no matter what happens I want you to know something
I need you to know that I would never trade you for anything in the world
I would take a thousand painful moments just to spend the rest of my life with you