Lessons I Have Learned about LOVE
- from the book The Choice is Yours by John Maxwell -


Love People Now: You never know what’s going to happen tomorrow – or if you will see tomorrow at all. Love people now. It’s said that the bishop of Uganda, during an especially tumultuous time in his country, said, “If you're going to love someone, do it quickly!” That’s the advice each of us needs to take to heart.

Love is Vulnerable: If you love others, then you will be hurt. Because when you open your arms to another, you make yourself an easy target. Do it anyway. Only the pain of never having loved is worse than the pain of having your heart broken.

Love is Powerful: Love has the power to change the world. It was love that prompted God to create the world. It was love that caused Him to send Jesus to save it. When you love others, anything is possible.

Love Only Lasts with Hard Work: No friendship lasts for decades without hard work. No marriage survives half a century without both partners fighting to make it work. No relationship thrives without sweat and tears and toil. If you want a relationship to last, you will have to give up other things for it.

Love is Unconditional: If there are strings attached, then it isn’t really love. A person needs to be loved the most when they deserve to be loved the least. When you love people, you keep on loving them. You make their problem, your problem. You stick with them to the end.