What is Valentine's Day

To celebrate the Valentine day, I 'd like to post a romantic story I love. It's the one of the way to love, the way to get a partner .
I just want to share my feeling with you. Maybe I'm too old compare to u, so I know u don't like my thinking hic hic, but I love EC and really want to contribute something to make this forum be warmer
Enjoy it
Salty coffee!
He met her on a party, she was so outstanding, many
guys chasing after her, while he was so normal, nobody
paid attention to him. At the end of the party, he
invited her to have coffee with him. she was
surprised, but as he was polite, she promised. They
sat in a nice coffee shop, he was too nervous to say
anything, She felt uncomfortable, she thought,"please,
let me back home". Suddenly he asked the waiter: would
you please give mesome salt? I'd like to put it in my
coffee. Everybodystared at him, so strange! His face
turned red, butstill, he put the salt in his coffee
and drank it.She asked him curiously: why you have
this hobby? He replied: when I was a little boy, I was
living near the sea, I liked playing in the sea, I
could feel the taste of the sea, salty and bite, just
like the taste of the salty coffee. Now every time I
have the saltycoffee, I always think of my childhood,
think of myhometown, I miss my home town so much, I
miss my parents who are still living there. While
saying that, tears filled his eyes. She was deeply
touched. That's his true feeling, from the bottom of
his heart.A man who can tell out his homesick, hemust
be a manwho loves home, cares about home, has
responsibility of home. Then she also started to
speak, spoke about her faraway hometown, her
childhood, her family. That was a really nice talk,
also a beautiful beginning oftheir story. They
continued to date. She found actually he was a man who
meets all her demands: he had tolerance, was kind
hearted, warm, careful...he was such a good person but
she almost missed him! Thanks to his salty coffee!
Then the story was just like every beautiful love
story: the princess married to the prince, then they
were living the happy life... And, every time she made
coffee for him, she put some salt in the coffee, as
she knew that's the way he liked it. After 40 years,
he passed away, left her a letter which said: "My
dearest, please forgive me, forgive my whole life lie.
This was the only lie I said to you----the salty
coffee. Remember the first time we dated? I was so
nervous at that time, actually I wanted some sugar,
but I said salt. It was hard for me to change so I
just went ahead. I never thought that could be the
start of our communication! I tried to tell you the
truth many times in my life, but I was too afraid to
do that, as I have promised not to lie to you for
anything. Now I'm dying, I afraid of nothing so I tell
you the truth: I don't like the salty coffee, what a
strange bad taste.But I have the salty coffee for my
whole life since I knew you, I never feel sorry for
anything I do for you. Having you with me is my
biggest happiness for my whole life. If I can live for
the second time, I still want to know you and have you
for my whole life, even though I have to drink the
salty coffee again." Her tears made the letter totally
wet. Someday, someone asked her: what's the taste of
salty coffee? It's sweet. She replied. SOMETIMES YOU
FEEL YOU KNOW THE PERSON MORE THAN ANYBODY ELSE... BUT
ONLY TO REALISE THAT YOUR OPINION ABOUT THE PERSON
WERE NOT AS YOU ESCRIBED. JUST LIKE THE INCIDENT OF
THE SALTY COFFEE... LOVE MORE AND HATE LESSER...
CAUSE' OMETIMES SALT TASTES BETTER THAN SUGAR...
Take the TIME to know what Real LOVE is

This story was first given to me by my teacher at the university as an exercise on prepositons. She said that this was a very meaningful story (perhaps because she's your age, mh39c1, so she shares your opinion) but actually I donot think I thoroughly understood it. The advice it gave was: "Sometimes you feel that you know a person more than anyone else, but only to realise that you were wrong, just like the story of the salty coffee. Love more and hate less, cause sometimes salt tastes better than sugar". I feel this advice does not match the story and is not persuasive enough. What is the relation between the fact that your opinion about that person is wrong and the advice to love more and hate less? Or is this simply a motto?
Money is not the most important thing on earth.
Love is.
Fortunately,I LOVE MONEY!

Brit không tìm thấy chủ đề what is love nữa nên post luôn vào đây nhé!

"Love is not blind - It sees more and not less, but because it sees more it is willing to see less."
-Will Moss

"Love is like playing the piano. First you must learn to play by the rules, then you must forget the rules and play from your heart."
-Unknown
"You don't marry someone you can live with - you marry the person who you cannot live without."
-unknown
"A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous."
-Ingrid Bergman
"Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies."
-John Donne
"True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen."
-La Rochefoucauld
"Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all."
-St. Augustine
"When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe."
-La Rochefoucauld
"Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never."
-Charles Caleb Colton
"Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time... It tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other."
-Leo F. Buscaglia
"To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best."
-William M. Thackeray​

Forever trust in who you are




And nothing else matter!

Oh, if it be to choose and call thee mine,
Love, thou art every day my Valentine! - Thomas Hood
I claim there ain't Another Saint
As great as Valentine. - Ogden Nash
A lovely heart-shaped box of chocolates was received on Valentine's Day by a coed from her newest date. On the enclosed card was the inscription, "To Helen - with all my allowance." Love me little, love me long,
Is the burden of my song. - Old Ballad
And on her lover's arm she leant,
And round her waist she felt it fold,
And far across the hills they went
In that new world which is the old. - Tennyson
Pickwick Papers
Never sign a Valentine with your own name. - Charles Dickens
Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, *** raises some pretty good questions. - Woody Allen
Let those love now, who never loved before;
Let those who always loved, now love the more. - Anonymous
To do him any wrong was to beget
A kindness from him for his heart was rich-
Of such fine mould that if you sowed therein
The seed of Hate, it blossomed Charity. - Tennyson
The course of true love never did run smooth. - William Shakespeare
No man at one time can be wise and love. - Robert Herrick
To be rich in admiration and free from envy; to rejoice greatly in the good of others; to love with such generosity of heart that your love is still a dear possession in absence or unkindness - these are the gifts of fortune which money cannot buy nothing and without which money can buy nothing. He who has such a treasury of riches, being happy and valiant himself, in his own nature, will enjoy the universe as if it were his own estate; and help the man to whom he lends a hand to enjoy it with him. - Robert Louis Stevenson
And on her lover's arm she leant,
And round her waist she felt it fold,
And far across the hills they went
In that new world which is the old. - Tennyson
Then, must you speak of one that loved not wisely but too well; of one not easily jealous, but being wrong perplex'd in the extreme. - William Shakespeare
There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd. - William Shakespeare
Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, - but not for love. - William Shakespeare
'Tis better to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all. - Tennyson
Drink to me only with thine eyes,
And I will pledge with mine;
Or leave a kiss but in the cup,
And I'll not look for wine. - Ben Jonson
I am not one of those who do not beieve in love at first sight, but I believe in taking a second look. - H. Vincent
A man in love schemes more than a hundred lawyers.- Spain
We always return to our first loves. - America
The eyes have one language everywhere. - Romania
Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other. - Eurpides
Love those who love you. - Voltaire
Love is poleasing but a various elime. - William Shenstone
You are always new.
The last of your kisses was ever the sweetest... - John Keats
If the heart of a man is depressed with cares.
The mist is dispelled when a woman appears. - John Gay
All thoughts, all passions, all delights,
Whatever stirs his mortal frame,
All are but ministers of Love,
And feed his sacred flame. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
All Love is sweet.
Given or returned.
Common as light is love,
And its familiar voice wearies not ever. - Percy Bysshe Shelley
An old man in love is like a flower in winter. - Chinese proverb
In her first passion woman loves her lover,
In all the others all she loves is love. - George Gordon, Lord Byron
And all for love, and nothing for reward. - Edmund Spenser
Two human loves make one divine. - Elisabeth Barrett
Browning
What of soul was left,
I wonder, when the kissing had to stop? - Robert Browning
Is it, in heav'n, a crime to love too well? - Alexander Pope
God is Love - I dare say,
But what a mischievous devil Love is! - Samuel Butler
For aught that ever I could read,
Could ever hear by tale or history,
The course of true love never did run smooth. - William Shakespeare
Loving a woman who scorns you is like licking honey from a thorn. - Welsh proverb
Lord! I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing. - Jonathon Swift
She is not fair to outward view
As many maidens be:
Her loveliness I never knew
Until she smiled on me. - Hartley Coleridge
All, everything that I understand,
I understand only because I love. - Leo Tolstoy
Oh, they loved dearly:
their souls kissed,
they kissed with their eyes,
they were both but one single kiss. - Heinrich Heine
Western Wind, when wilt thou blow,
The small rain down can rain?
Christ if my love were in my arms
And I in my bed again! - Anonymous, 16th Century
Ah! when will this long weary day have end,
And lend me leave to come unto my love? - Edmund Spenser
But to see her was to love her,
Love but her, and love for ever. - Robert Burns
A man in love mistakes a harelip for a dimple. - Japanese proverb
Love is blind, and lovers cannot see
The pretty follies that themselves commit. - William Shakespeare
Love is enough:
though the world be awaning,
And the woods have no voice
but the voice of complaining. - William Morris
Love is like the measles; we all have to go through it. - Jerome K. Jerome
Who so loves believes the impossible. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind... - William Shakespeare
Love is swift of foot:
Love's a man of war,
And can shoot,
And can hit from far. - George Herbert
Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise. - Samuel Johnson
A new commandment I give into you,
That ye love one another. - St John
Love sought is good, but giv'n unsought is better. - William Shakespeare
He who binds to himself a joy
Does the winged life destroy
But he who kisses the joy as it flies
Lives in eternity's sun rise. - William Blake
Were the whole realm of nature mine,
That were a present far too small:
Love so amazing, so divine
Demands my soul, my life, my all. - Isaac Watts
Lips only sing when they cannot kiss. - James Thomsom
Love is the life of every man. - Emanuel Swedenborg
Love lives in cottages as well as in court. - English proverb
posted by LeRomeo (lct83)


Forever trust in who you are




And nothing else matter!

Valentinê?Ts day has warmth of love and sweet of dark chocolate.
Love is caring deeply for someone or something. It is he feeling which could make everything right with the world. ?" unknown.

If you really love something you will be prepared to give it up, you will be willing to set it free. ?" unknown
Giving is an important part of loving. ?" unknown.

ĐỈợc middle_of_nowhere sửa chữa / chuyfn vào 02:58 ngày 13/02/2003

most of people think that Valentine''s day is just for lovers but actually it''s also for friends. I have checked this with my teacher from the US. Last year I got a small gift from her, a very sweet card. Maybe when the day comes to VN, it has changed a bit then everyone has misunderstood it. But it is OK for me just bcz I have no feelings abt the day.
Được britneybritney sửa chữa / chuyển vào 11:56 ngày 01/02/2004