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About me and who I'm looking for

About me:

This quote best describes my feelings on love and and serves as a good reminder of why i'm looking for it.

"Love takes time. It needs a history of giving and receiving, laughing and crying... Love never promises instant gratification, only ultimate fulfillment. Love means believing in someone, in something. It supposes a willingness to struggle, to work, to suffer, and to rejoice. Satisfaction and ultimate fulfillment are by-products of dedicated love. They belong only to those who can reach beyond themselves; to whom giving is more important than receiving. Love is doing everything you can to help others build whatever dreams they have. Love involves much careful and active listening. It is doing whatever needs to be done, and saving whatever will promote the other's happiness, security, and well-being. Sometimes, love hurts. Love is on a constant journey to what others need. It must be attentive, caring and open, both to what others say and to what others cannot say. Love says no with empathy and great compassion. Love is firm, but when needed it must be tender. When others have tried and failed, love is the hand in yours in your moments of discouragement and disappointment. Love is reliable. Love is a choice and commitment to others' true and lasting happiness. It is dedicated to growth and fulfillment. Love is not selfish. Love forgives, knowing the intentions are good. Love does not attach conditions... Genuine love is always a free gift. Love realizes and accepts that there will be disagreements and disturbing emotions... There may be times when miles lay between, but love is a commitment. It believes, and endures all things. Love encourages freedom of self. Love shares positive and negative reactions to warm and cold feelings. Love, intimate love, will never reject others. It is the first to encourage and the last to condemn. Love is a commitment to growth, happiness, and fulfillment of one another." Barb Upham

I'm looking for:

I would like to find someone who is gracious and kind, giving and loving to all and especially to those in her inner circle. Someone serious about life and their place in it, yet realizes the important balance of work and play. I think Nietzsche said it best: "One should live their life with the seriousness of a child at play." Someone like me with an overjoyed heart in need of the proper outlet. A person to share passion, compassion, warmth, intimacy, empathy, wisdom, learning, joy, hope, work, play, pleasure, pain, all of life's mysteries and revelations, and reciprocity. All the simplicities and complexities of life, sunrises and sunsets, and all the moments in between our memories and dreams. A woman of infinite layers and endless revelations.

A woman of genuine affection who likes to cuddle and hold hands, bundle up close for a movie or in front of a fire, to share food, thoughts, feelings, passionate kisses and embraces, and life in general. A patient person of inspiration to others and likewise inspired. A benefactor of humanity somehow always seeking refinement and enlightenment.

"Love given or love taken is never lost, once you've loved someone, the love is always there, even after they're gone. Love is the only thing that endures. I think love is like a ray of sunlight, traveling for all eternity through space, deeper and deeper into infinity; like that ray of light, it never ceases to exist. Love endures. It's a binding force in the universe, like the energy within a molecule is a binding force. Without the cohesive energy in a molecule, without gravity, without love-chaos. We exist to love and be loved, because love seems to me to be the only thing that brings order and meaning and light to existence. It must be true. Because if it isn't true, what purpose do we serve?" Dean Koontz
I look forward to so many things, a loving relationship being high on the list.