The Price of Love ...

There is so much to love. Where do we begin? Perhaps expanding our view of love. 
My friend Bob Day sent this inspiration on the ‘Wonders’ of love: 

A class of students was asked to list what they considered to be the Seven Wonders of the world. Though there was some disagreement, Egypt’s Great Pyramids, The Taj Mahal, The Grand Canyon, The Panama Canal, The Empire State Building, St. Peter’s Basilica, and China’s Great Wall received the most votes from the students. 

While gathering the votes, the teacher noticed one student, a quiet girl, hadn’t turned in her paper yet. She asked the girl if she was having trouble with her list. The girl replied, "Yes, a little. I couldn’t quite make up my mind because there are so many."
 
"Well, tell us what you have and maybe we can help," the teacher said.
The girl hesitated a little and said, ‘Then I think the Seven Wonders of the world are to touch, to taste, to see, to hear, to feel, to laugh, to love.

The teacher was startled, and the room was so quiet you could have heard a pin drop. The girl challenged them to think a little differently and reminded them that the things we overlook as simple and ordinary, are often the most wonderful, and we don’t have to travel far to experience them.

I say, slow down and touch, taste, see, hear, feel, laugh, and love. and if you are moving fast when you are touching, tasting, seeing, hearing, feeling, laughing, or loving, be fully present for that very precious moment. It works just as well. It’s still love.

I discovered other inspirations on love through these mentions:

The risk of love is loss, and the price of loss is grief, but the pain of grief is only a shadow when compared with the pain of never risking love. -Hilary Stanton Zunin – author

The kind of (loving) friendships when each of us does better because we know each other. -Author unknown

Hate diminishes our greatness. -Lee Robert  
    
The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it’s indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it’s indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it’s indifference.
― Elie Wiesel

Finally, from a Hallmark romantic movie from one woman to another about falling in love again, Be Bold or Grow Old! 

Love,
Hilda