MoRe LoVe LuCy

"With loving always comes the possibility of hurting. Just because someone truly loves you does not mean he/she will never hurt you. And why that has to happen perhaps we will never really understand. Maybe it has to do with the truth that the person you love the most is also the same one who can hurt you the deepest. Is it not strange how the love that hurt you can be the same one that can heal you? Not always, maybe, but often enough for it to hold true... 'If there is deep love involved, there is deep responsibility toward it.' I like the sound of that. Especially in a marriage, maybe love is not so much the absence of pain or conflict but the presence of an everyday commitment to make things work."
--- an excerpt from Love Lucy. Lucy Torres-Gomez. www.philstar.com. 02/13/05

"Sometimes you look for love in all the wrong places. You look for something you thought you did not have only to find out you've had it all along. You just did not realize or appreciate it because you got it in constant doses it became so ordinary. But it was never lost, it was just lost on you.... Sometimes you appreciate someone only when you almost lose him/her. Appreciate what you have while you still have it. And I say love deeply. I say love beyond the pain... love through the pain... in spite of... because of... love even when love bites... that is how great love stories are lived out. That is how great love happens. Despite all that has been said and (un)done for love and in the name of love, the fact remains: one of the most wonderful things is still having someone in this world that you love more than yourself."
--- an excerpt from Love Lucy. Lucy Torres-Gomez. www.philstar.com. 02/13/05

"I have always felt that perhaps there is no other human emotion that runs deeper than hope. Even the most pessimistic soul harbors feelings of hope deep within – whether or not he is aware of it, whether or not he acknowledges it. It is not even a choice; it is essentially a natural feeling just waiting to surface. It may be very faint at times but it is always there, ever present."
--- an excerpt from Love Lucy. Lucy Torres-Gomez. www.philstar.com. 06/05/05

"What I do know for sure is that everything is linked. Everything happens for a reason. For every difficult episode in your life I believe there is a secret, custom-made lesson that contributes to your growth as a person. Maybe if we could be more aware of the purpose of all these setbacks, no matter how painful, we can also pay more attention to what they are trying to teach us."
--- an excerpt from Love Lucy. Lucy Torres-Gomez. www.philstar.com. 07/10/05