Who knows? Lightning could strike.

This is an excerpt from my all-time favorite movie, Meet Joe Black.

SUSAN
You're not listening --

PARRISH
Oh yes, I am. Not an ounce of excitement, not a whisper of a thrill, this relationship has all the passion of a pair of titmice.

SUSAN
Don't get dirty, Dad --

PARRISH
Well, it worries me. I want you to get swept away. I want you to levitate. I want you to sing with rapture and dance like a dervish.

SUSAN
That's all?

PARRISH
Be deliriously happy. Or at least leave yourself open to be.

SUSAN
'Be deliriously happy'. I'm going to do my upmost --

He smiles.

PARRISH
I know it's a cornball thing but love is passion, obsession, someone you can't live without. If you don't start with that, what are you going to end up with? I say fall head over heels. Find someone you can love like crazy and who'll love you the same way back. And how do you find him? Forget your head and listen to your heart. I'm not hearing any heart.
(a moment)
Run the risk, if you get hurt, you'll come back. Because, the truth is there is no sense living your life without this. To make the journey and not fall deeply in love -- well, you haven't lived a life at all. You have to try. Because if you haven't tried, you haven't lived.

SUSAN
Bravo.

PARRISH
Aw, you're tough.

SUSAN
I'm sorry. But give it to me again. The short version.

PARRISH
Stay open. Who knows? Lightning could strike.

Love....actually.

Every person will need to find four people in their lives.

The first person is You.
The second person is the one you love most.
The third person is the one who loves you most.
And the fourth is the one you spend the rest of your life with.

In life, firstly you will meet with the one you love most, and learn how love feels.


Because you know how love feels, so you can find the person who loves you most. When you have experienced the feeling of loving others and being loved, you will then know what it is
you need most. Then you will find the person who is most suitable for you, to be able to spend the rest of your life with.


Sadly, in real life, these three people are usually not the same person.
The one you love most doesn't love you.
The one, who loves you most, is never the one you love most.
And the one you spend your life with, is never the one you love most or the one who loves you most.
He is just the person who happens to be at the right place at the right time.


Which person are you in other people's life?


No person will purposely have a change of heart. At the point in time when he loves you, he really loves you. But when he doesn't, he really doesn't love you anymore. When he loves you, he can't deny it.

Same goes, when he loves you no more, there's no way he can pretend he loves you.


When a person doesn't love you and wants to leave you, you must ask yourself if you still love him.

If you also don't love him anymore, do not keep him just to save your pride. If you still love him, you should wish him happiness, and hope that he will be with the one he loves most, not stop him from it.

If you stop him from finding true happiness with the one he loves, it shows you already don't love him. And if you don't love him, what rights do you have to blame him for a change of heart?


Love is not possessive.

If you like the moon, you can't just take it down and put it in your basin.

But the moonlight still shines upon you.

In other words, when you love a person, you can use another method of possessing the person. Let him become a cherished memory in your life.


If you really love a person, you must love him for what he is.
Love him for his good points, and the bad. You can't wish for him to become like what you like him to be just because you love him. If he can't change to become what you like him to be, you don't love him anymore.

When you really love a person, you cannot find a reason why you love him, you only know that no matter when and where, good mood or bad mood, you will wish to have this person be with you.


Real love is when two people can go through the toughest problems without asking for promises or listing criteria.

In a relationship, you have to put in effort and give in at times, and not always be on the receiving end. Being away from each other is a type of test. If the relationship isn't strong, then you can only admit defeat.

Real love will never become hate.


Always remember that we can only move on if :

We accept the things that we fear,

Learn the things we don't want to know

and let go of the memories we can't live without.

Love chooses YOU.

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 that person, 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 lives and ways are different.


If you fall in love with another, and that person falls in love with you, and then 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 your 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 anyway you can.


This 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 cools, they revert to seeing their love as need.
They cease to be someone who generates love and instead become someone who seeks love.
They forget that the secret of love is that it is a gift, and that it can be made to grow only by giving it away.


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 staying.
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 always has been and always will be a mystery.


Be glad that it came to live for a moment in your life.

Don't deny love just only you don't want to be hurt.