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Distinguishing Love from Infatuation

Youth leaders: Take this quote and substitute famous people with which your youth would be familiar. What?s the difference between infatuation and love? Infatuation is when you think that he?s as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Stephen Hawking, as noble as Aleksandr Solhenitsyn, as funny as Robin Williams, and as athletic as Arnold Swartzenegger. Love is when you realize he?s as sexy as Stephen Hawking, as smart as Arnold Swartzenegger, as funny as Aleksandr Solhenitsyn, as athletic as Robin Williams, and nothing at all like Robert Redford, but you take him anyway.

Kids on Making Love Endure

How to make love endure: ?Don?t forget your wife?s name. That?ll mess up the love.? -- Age 8 ?Be a good kisser. It might make your wife forget that you never take out the trash.? -- Age 8 ?If falling in love is anything like learning to spell, I don?t want to do it. It takes too long.? -- Age 7 ?Shake your hips and hope for the best.? -- Age 9 I?m not rushing into love. Fourth grade is hard enough. -- Age 10

Love and Sharing Same Direction

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Loving By Helping Them Love God

To love another person is to help them love God. -- Soren Kierkegaard

Loving as Happiness

To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence. -- Sydney Smith

Children Theorize on Love

LOVE IS: THE LANGUAGE OF LOVE BY CHILDREN A group of professional people posed this question to a group of 4- to 8- year-olds, "What does love mean?" The answers they got were broader and deeper than anyone could have imagined: "When my grandmother got arthritis, she couldn't bend over and paint her toenails anymore, so my grandfather does it for her all the time, even when his hands got arthritis too. That's love." Rebecca - age 8 "When someone loves you, the way they say your name is different. You know that your name is safe in their mouth." Billy - age 4 "Love is when you go out to eat and give somebody most of your French fries without making them give you any of theirs." --Chrissy, age 6 "Love is what makes you smile when you're tired." --Terri, age 4 "Love is when my mommy makes coffee for my daddy and she takes a sip before giving it to him, to make sure the taste is OK." --Danny, age 7 "Love is what's in the room with you at Christmas if you stop opening presents and listen." --Bobby, age 5 "If you want to learn to love better, you should start with a friend who you hate." --Nikka, age 6 "There are two kinds of love. Our love. God's love. But God makes both kinds of them." --Jenny, age 4 "Love is when you tell a guy you like his shirt, then he wears it every day." --Noelle, age 7 "Love is like a little old woman and a little old man who are still friends even after they know each other so well." --Tommy, age 6 "Love is when your puppy licks your face even after you left him alone all day." --Mary Ann, age 4 "When you love somebody, your eyelashes go up and down and little stars come out of you." --Karen, age 7 "You really shouldn't say 'I love you' unless you mean it. But if you mean it, you should say it a lot. People forget." --Jessica, age 8 --Found circulating the Web.

Your Education Has Been a Failure

Your education has been a failure no matter how much it has done for your mind, if it has failed to open your heart. J.A. Rosenkranz

Einstein on Living for Others

?Only a life lived for others is worthwhile.? Albert Einstein

Serving Saved His Son

In the late nineteenth century, a member of parliament went to Scotland to make a speech. En route, his carriage became stuck in the mud. A Scottish farmboy came to the rescue with a team of horses that pulled the carriage loose. Awed by the great man, the boy would accept nothing in return for helping him out. The grateful statesman asked, ?Is there nothing you want to be when you grow up?? The boy said, ?I want to be a doctor.? The man said, ?Well, let me help.? True to his word, the Englishman helped make it possible for the Scottish boy to attend the university to graduate as a doctor. A little more than a half century later, on another continent, another world statesman lay dangerously ill with pneumonia. Winston Churchill had been stricken while attending a wartime conference. But a wonder drug was given to him ? a new drug called penicillin, which had been discovered by Alexander Fleming, Fleming was the young Scottish lad, and the man who had helped sponsor his education was Randolph Churchill, Winston?s father. (Speaker?s Library of Business Stories, Griffith, Joe, Prentice-Hall, Inc., Copyright 1990.)

See Workers as People, Not Fixtures

?A supervisor has to regard those on the line as ?our people,? not a part of the fixtures. If you?re not capable of doing that, I can?t use you. The last thing I need is the Marine-sergeant type, hassling the troops. It?s got to be somebody who can empathize and relate to people. Other kinds of skills we can teach you." (Donald Port, personnel, Gillette Company)

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