This page of inspirational stories and words is all about
love. It is written for those in love, those who are already in
a mature love relationship, those looking for love, and those
who fear they will never know love.
Do you remember your first love? Is she still fresh in your
mind? Does his name still make goose bumps cover your arm?
Better yet, does your father still curse him or does your mother
still refuse to speak of her? If so, then you have probably
experienced first love for all it is worth.
First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of
curiosity.
~ George Bernard Shaw ~
How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms
of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as
first love?
~ Albert Einstein ~
First love is the most likely to break your heart, and the
most likely to detour you from loving anyone else.
I know they say that first love is the sweetest, but
that first cut is the deepest.
~ Drake ~
The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can
ever end.
~ Benjamin Disraeli ~
While most people move on from first love to find deeper,
more passionate love that comes from a place of experience with
the world, they never forget their very first lover. You will
always remember that very first person who showed you that you
are lovable. That person just stays with you forever.
First romance, first love, is something so special to
all of us, both emotionally and physically, that it touches our
lives and enriches them forever.
~ Rosemary Rogers ~
First love is where you do the exploration that will later
allow you to open up and be vulnerable to someone else. First
love seems made for heartache and pain. It seems like it was
never made for joy, peace, contentment, or old age.
With your first love you tend to over-idealize the other
person as well as the relationship you have with them –
everything seems to be a fairytale of sunshine, rainbows and
happy-ever-afters – and then … surprise, surprise … at some
point the relationship ends, because odds are you are both
immature. Reality kicks in and all your rainbows collapse.
What happened? You experienced the absolute truth of love but
got it mixed up with the very relative truth of needs – both
your needs and the needs of your partner.
Love and needs have very little to do with each
other, but we keep mixing them up – hence all our pain,
misunderstandings and jealousy.
~ Soren Lauritzen ~ , the Personal Development Guy
You could say first-time lovers are the soldiers out on the
front lines, fighting for the right of everyone the world over
to fall in love, and, more importantly simply to feel love.
Fortune and love favor the brave.
~ Ovid ~
These daring soldiers of love are serving their time, but
most will later leave the battle and settle down with less
hurtful, more mature love; love that has a chance of survival.
Our love has been the thread through the labyrinth,
the net under the high-wire walker, the only real thing in this
strange life of mine that I could ever trust.
~ Audrey Niffenegger ~ (from: 'The Time Traveler's
Wife')
Some of love's brave soldiers will be lost in war and never
make it back. Others will be buried before they have the chance
to claim their love. And some lucky few will be with their first
love for most of the rest of their lives.
They will all forever stand proud that they stood up for the
right to love. This page of inspirational stories and inspiring
words is for all of the soldiers braving the front lines so love
can be enjoyed by the masses back home. Soldiers of love unite
… love is worth it!
If you want to be loved, be lovable.
~ Ovid ~
Stupid-in-Love Inspirational Stories for Lovers #1
How many times have you been told "It's not you, it's me" at
the end of a relationship?
Sometimes it is true. But most people know by now that those
words are often meant a soft let down because, sadly, no one
wants to say what they really think or feel is 'not-quite-right'
about you.
Most of us have heard the line (or a similar soft let down) a
time or two, but hearing let downs more than occasionally should
make you pause and think. Is there something about you that is
just not all that lovable?
If you are busy defending yourself and your perceived needs
all the time (in short, identifying with
your ego) this might come across as … tiring.
We are all extremely lovable in our own way, we really are,
but some of us need to
learn to let go of that which we thought defined us but
which was really just a weird idea, one of those self imposed
limiting beliefs that make us seem less loveable (including
to ourselves).
The hardest things to let go of are the things you
never really had.
~ Inspiring Words about Love ~
If you recognize that there may be things about you pushing
others away, the inspirational stories on this page should nudge
you in the direction of introspection and change. There is
something lovable in you … that is guaranteed! It is just a
matter of overturning the personality 'flaws' that may not be
quite so lovable to the majority of people and moving on with
grace, trust and good cheer.
When we do this
necessary self examination and let go, the result is self
growth, self love and a much greater chance of finding some
'perfect' person who sees the lovable in us (and, mind you,
there are many more than just one person in the world like
that).
Why? Because when we start loving ourselves, others start
loving us.
Here is a bit of funny, inspired poetry about a man who could
really benefit from introspection and change. This is one of
those tragic yet inspirational stories that can make you laugh
… while thinking, "That's not me, is it? Am I that bad?" If
you see any part of yourself reflected in inspirational poems
such as this one, you better, er, get to the preacher before
your spouse does!
The Drunk and the Beautiful Teacher
There was an old drunk who lived in a trailer.
He was married to beautiful school teacher
and to him, she was the most beautiful creature,
because she never complained when he cussed like a sailor.
One day there was a call from the bailer
requesting money from the beautiful teacher
to once again collect the bail, but no one could reach her.
She came home to the quiet trailer, no drunken man cussing like
a sailor.
She returned the call to ask for how much the bailer would
nail her,
wondering: if it were her in jail, would he release her?
Papers to grade sat on the stool, she drove to get her foul
creature,
thinking: she was getting tired of the man, and definitely the
trailer.
When he sprung from the bars, she knew he was ready to nail
her
worse than the bailer, and she was still a teacher
with piles of papers on the stool more important than this
creature.
He followed her home, cussing like a sailor.
Rather than going together into the trailer,
the old man got out of the car, waited on his beautiful
creature,
only to hear the tires squeal away, before he could reach her.
He stood alone on the step, still cussing like a sailor.
Back inside the old trailer,
he kicked his muddy boots up on the papers of the teacher,
and asked himself: "What did I do? I never beats or mistreats
her!"
But the beautiful teacher … well, she ran off with the
preacher.
How about that, huh? 🙂
… we're all crazy, immature, insecure lunatics
sometimes. Especially when it comes to romantic love.
~ DEAR SUGAR,
The Rumpus Advice Column, April 29, 2010
There is an extravagant exultation in being in love,
living always at the extremes of emotion. The problem – which is
never evident to the victim – is that this exultant state
induces mental tunnel vision.
~ MK Wren ~ (from: 'A Gift Upon the Shore')
It's useless to hold a person to anything he says
while he's in love, drunk, or running for office.
~ Shirley MacLaine ~
Oh, the things we are willing to do for love! You probably
know a few hilarious yet inspirational stories that could teach
a lesson on the misfortunes of love, but we wanted to try our
hand at a few as well. All of the following inspirational
stories of the stupid-in-love are true. They all happened to
someone, somewhere in the world. It appears that getting drunk
on love is a preferred pastime all over the world!
When you read the following, just remember … you cannot
hold these people to anything they did because, hey, they were
in love. Shirley MacLaine says so!
Stupid-in-Love Inspirational Stories and Inspiring Words for
Lovers #2
If you happened to venture down Interstate 4 in Orlando,
Florida, in 2009, you might have seen an interesting billboard.
This was a one-of-a-kind billboard offering $1,000 to the lucky
person who could find someone named John a woman to love.
The billboard corresponded to a website, where John decided
he would post the top candidates for his love and allow visitors
to vote on who he should fall in love with.
The website has now been taken down, and it is unknown
whether John met his match in his viewer's favorite pick. The
odds are against him, since we all know love cannot be directed
by mass voters.
If the heart worked that way, there would be a whole new
meaning to arranged marriages – as well as some possible changes
to the way we elect our leaders …
I feel so miserable without you, it's almost like
having you here.
~ Stephen Bishop ~
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Stupid-in-Love Inspirational Stories for Lovers #3
In 2010, a Florida judge gave new meaning to creative justice
when he ordered a Florida woman should never again take
possession of lighters or matches. Why would he need such a
creative sentence?
Well, the woman was charged with aggravated assault after
lighting her boyfriend's crotch on fire as he slept on the
couch.
A protection order was also issued to keep the woman away
from her boyfriend, so it is pretty certain he won't be
proposing to this girlfriend anytime soon.
She said she needed attention. He didn't give it but fell
asleep instead. It is not certain what could be so urgent that
she would need to get a man's attention in this particular
manner. Perhaps he made the mistake of saying something like
this before falling asleep, "I'm tired. Do not wake me up unless
something is on fire!"
He was happily married – but his wife wasn't.
~ Victor Borge ~
This is one of those inspirational stories that make you
smile, laugh, or perhaps cry, right? So what can we learn from
it?
Well, obviously the woman, whose name is Belinda, by the way,
knows something about being assertive. This is almost always a
good thing, right? Furthermore we can learn something about
attention. Giving attention is almost always a good thing while
craving attention is not (you really need to give yourself the
attention you deserve).
I could never learn to like her, except on a raft at
sea with no other provisions in sight.
~ Mark Twain ~
Finally, perhaps the best thing we can take away from this
inspirational story is this: When you read it you realize that
you yourself may have challenges, but you are not that far off
the deep end. You just never know if your lover is, so you might
want to hide the lighters and matches. Especially if you live in
Florida!
Stupid-in-Love Inspirational Stories for Lovers #4
Do you remember
Lorena Bobbitt and John Bobbitt?
A lot of time has passed since this inspirational story
graced (or: disgraced) the newspapers back in 1993, but it is
worth mentioning again. Lorena made headlines when she brought
the old Popeye song to real life:
"Popeye the sailor man,
lived in a garbage can,
he turned on the heater,
burnt off his wiener,
he's Popeye the sailor man!"
The twist is that Lorena was Olive Oil and she was the one
who turned on the heat(er). Oh, and of course, it was a kitchen
carving knife rather than heat. Plus, it wasn't just a burn, but
a completely severed wiener which she proceeded to throw out in
a field to feed the mice! Urgh, to be John Bobbitt!
On the other hand, the reason why Lorena cut off John's dick
was a history of domestic violence, marital rape and general
spouse abuse. She was declared momentarily insane while she did
it, and in her defense she did call 911 when she realized what
she had done.
An extensive search of the field recovered John's missing
wiener and he then had his member surgically re-attached and
went on to … star in porn movies, no less. He was later
convicted of several crimes, including grand larceny and more
domestic violence to his next wife and the one after that as
well.
As inspirational stories go, this one is obviously in the
heavy end. There are indications that John may be pretty far
from the ideal husband, and Lorena undoubtedly took the idea of
'taking matters into your own hand' (and keeping them there
until you throw them out) a bit too far. On the plus side the
small family's public disclosure of dysfunctionality did help
raise public awareness about
domestic violence,
marital rape and
spouse abuse.
There are two dogs inside me. One of the dogs is mean
and evil. The other dog is helpful and good. The mean dog fights
the good dog all the time. Which dog usually wins? The one I
feed the most.
~ Native American Tribal Leader ~
SStupid-in-Love Inspirational Stories for Lovers #5
Obviously inspirational stories don't always have to be
heroic; there is a lot you can learn from the craziness of
others.
Apart from John and Lorena's story there are the more or less
inspirational stories of old, such as good old
Bonnie and Clyde.
Bonnie and Clyde were the lovers of the century back in 1930.
Madly in love and passionate about leaving the world together,
they went on a crime spree in the United States.
They committed everything from robbery to murder and
eventually went down in a flurry of bullets.
There is no better story to exemplify the undying devotion of
love … or perhaps to exemplify the stupidity of devotion to a
twisted kind of love.
Love is the self-delusion we manufacture to justify
the trouble we take to have sex.
~ Daniel S. Greenberg ~
Maybe Daniel S. Greenberg's words would have applied a
century or so ago, but it doesn't fit in most modernized nations
today. Why? Because everything is all mixed up when it comes to
dating and finding love in our modern world:
1. Most men no longer have to fake love, just as women are no
longer content to fake orgasms. Sex without marriage, and even
without love, is commonplace. In fact, it is pretty much
expected by the time you get out of high school. Virtue is no
more, and that is a fact – sad or not.
2. Many women do not want to be loved. They just want to be
screwed. Or maybe they do want to be loved but have given up on
it and now just want their itch scratched instead. Again, virtue
is no more, and having people give up on love is really sad –
though odds are that there are a lot of men out there who
probably don't mind doing the itch scratching.
3. A shot or two (or: a bottle of nice red wine) will
sometimes go much further to getting laid than the words "I love
you." Thus popular song lyrics like "Tequila makes her clothes
fall off." Thanks for telling the world about that, singer Joe
Nichols. We are sure the shots will be lining up for your wife
next time she goes out with the ladies …
Love may no longer be something you have to fake in order to
get laid, but it is something you will hopefully feel at some
point in your life. You may mix it up with the desire to have
sex, but eventually you will figure out that it is a completely
different game. And that the very best game in town is when you
choose to feel the most unconditional love you can and then have
sex to boot.
But until you get to that
mature understanding of love and sex, you might find the
following bit of knowledge inspirational:
Love is the delusion that one woman differs from
another.
~ H. L. Mencken ~
Inspirational Stories with a Twist:
First Time Lovemaking
On that note, let's move on to the next of our inspirational
stories with a funny twist. Here is the true story of Jon, one
man who learned the hard way that you don't need love to get
laid:
The first night away at college, Jon went to a pool hall
frequented by students and sat at the dark bar nursing a beer.
He was waiting for his girlfriend of three years, hoping she had
not changed her mind, for they had something very special
planned.
As the late evening hours ticked into the early morning hours
and she didn't show, he figured he had been turned down. He
downed a few shots, wondering why she had gone back on her word.
Two years before this college meeting, the couple had sat
together on a cheap motel bed, staring into one another's eyes.
He was hoping to lose his virginity, but she was not ready for
that step.
After a few passionate kisses and fondles that ultimately
went nowhere, she promised that once they left home and went off
to college she would be ready. They agreed that their first
night away would be the night.
They had texted excitedly about this meeting for months
leading up to their departure from home, so it was shocking to
Jon that she did not show up at the agreed upon time. As the bar
closed down, he headed for the door.
Then he saw her long blond hair, curvy waist, and that butt
squeezed into blue jeans … yeah, that butt could be no one's
but hers. She was standing in the doorway to the women's
bathroom, leaning on the frame with her back to him. He went up
behind her, slipped his arm around her waist, kissed her,
fondled her and started turning it into the best drunken night
away from home he or she had ever had.
They were more than half undressed inside the cramped
bathroom when he happened to look into her eyes.
In that moment, just before the much coveted act, he opened
his eyes and saw the eyes of a stranger looking back at him.
These eyes were half closed and just as drunk as his own. He
stopped momentarily, and then … carried on.
When his girlfriend texted him more than an hour later to say
she was not ready and had changed her mind, guess what? It no
longer mattered.
He told her he was willing to wait however long it took.
That's true love for you. Of course what he really meant to say
was, "Now that I know there are others who are ready whenever
and wherever, I can wait for you to be ready."
What? Feeling a bit offended – or miffed? Don't be – he got
what he wanted and she got what she wanted. They both got their
perceived needs fulfilled, and what more can you ask for? Well,
love, obviously, but then they had that, too, didn't they?
Inspirational Stories and Inspiring Words with a Twist: Boys
Will Be Boys – Or?
Come live in my heart, and pay no rent.
~ Samuel Lover ~
One of the modern dilemmas in the dating world is how long
you should let someone live with you without paying rent, bills,
or buying at least part of the food they wolf down on a daily
basis. /p>
Roommates who sleep on the couch and go to work by day are
one thing, but what about lovers who seem content to just live
with you and accept your generosity without any motivation to
get up and make something of themselves?
Some modern men would argue that women have been doing this
for years, but many others would disagree. If you are wondering
whether to move forward with a relationship in which you are the
main breadwinner and will probably always be so, you may
appreciate the next of our inspirational stories on love:
Kimberly was sick and tired of paying all of the bills,
struggling to keep food in the kitchen, and then going into the
bedroom to pretend her man was a man. She was raised to believe
that men took care of women.
Men worked hard so that women could raise the babies. That
was the proper division of labor, according to this belief, and
every time her mother came to visit she reminded Kimberly of
this.
One night, after waiting a few hours for her boyfriend to
come home from the golf club – without the bread he was supposed
to pick up for dinner, she lost it.
While he was in the shower she threw all of his clothing out
the bedroom window and doused it with lighter fluid. As he came
into the bedroom with a towel wrapped around his waist and
thoughts of a "happy ending" in mind, she dropped a lit match
out the window.
The match went out before reaching the clothing, but in that
time the boyfriend figured out the game. He dug up some other
clothes and voluntarily left, leaving his clothing doused in
lighter fluid on the ground beneath the window.
Throughout the night, Kimberly sat and absorbed the quiet of
her home. Rather than finding it peaceful as she remembered it
being before she met the boyfriend, she found it to be
depressing. She found herself crying rather than celebrating.
She found her appetite gone, rather than enjoying the meal she
thought she was making for herself.
After a week of missing her boyfriend, and crying over the
silence of her depressing house, she called the boyfriend back
home. The rain had washed the lighter fluid from his clothes,
and together they took them to the Laundromat and rinsed them
out in the large sinks.
Later they tossed them all in the trash cans outside the
Laundromat, because the scent of the fluid just wouldn't go
away.
Guess what happen next? Well, Kimberly found herself
purchasing the boyfriend all new clothes, and living happily
ever after (or, at least they're still together) with the
nagging of her mother in the background, but completely
overshadowed with the very real feeling of love for her
boyfriend and acceptance of him, just the way he is.
Food for Thought: Obviously, traditional roles for men and
women don't necessary have to be the standard today. A lot of
things have changed, and men are now just as capable of being
stay-at-home parents as women are capable of being CEOs and
traveling salespeople.
Before you toss the lover out with the trash, question
whether they are worth taking care of. In many cases, you can
work things out in a similar fashion to what you saw right here
in these inspirational stories. Though you might want to go easy
on the lighters and knives …
Final Words on the Inspirational Stories about Love
We cannot leave without some funny inspirational words from
Nietzsche.
A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed
to cure a person in love.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche ~
And note that he was talking about being in love, which (as
we hinted at the beginning of this page) is only partially the
same as actually loving, because being in love has your needs
mixed up in it, whereas true love just IS, no questions asked,
no demands made.
That is why being in love passes, whereas true love never
does (though it can be overshadowed by negative feelings).
True love stories never have endings.
~ Richard Bach ~
Love will surely bust you wide open
Into an unfettered, blooming new galaxy …
~ Hafiz ~ (from: 'In a Tree House')
Eventually you will come to understand that love
heals everything, and love is all there is.
~ Gary Zukav ~
Take a moment to look at the person you love. Or, simply
think of them. Remember all the reasons you fell in love with
them and, more importantly, all the reasons you love them now.
Picture their face the very first time you laid eyes on them.
Try to remember what they smelled like and tasted like the first
time you came together for a kiss.
… we kiss. And it feels like we have just shrugged
off the world.
~ Jim Shahin ~
Recall, if you can, that swelling, expansive, all-accepting
feeling inside your chest. The light that clicked on inside your
head so that you saw more beauty than ugliness in world; and
felt more love than fear.
All jokes aside, this is what love is about!
Love unlocks doors and opens windows that weren't
even there before.
~ Mignon McLaughlin ~
Inspirational stories can make you laugh and inspiring words
can make you smile … but they can also make you appreciate
what you have.
I want to do with you what spring does with the
cherry trees.
~ Pablo Neruda ~ (from: 'Twenty Love Poems: XIV')
People do crazy things for love, and that is for a reason.
Love is the most intense emotion humans can feel, and it has
incredible power. It can change your life for the (much) better,
and that starts with you; which means that you alone hold all
the power. It is your choice if you want to open up so you can
feel love or not.
The love you desire and crave – it is a feeling, and
feelings take place inside you. This is good news, because it
means that you are in charge. It is for you to open up allow
love – or not. It also means that loving is much more important
than being loved.
~ Soren Lauritzen ~ , the Personal Development Guy
Be quick to accept love into your world, quicker than
accepting sex perhaps, and don't be so quick to toss it out the
door. Living with love can difficult, but so is living without
it.
Hopefully these inspirational stories about love have touched
you in some way. If nothing else, hopefully you got a good laugh
or a smile.
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