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44 Amazing 'Love Is' Comics by Kim Grove

"Love is..." is a famous comic strip created by New Zealand artist Kim Grove in the late 1960s. Later they were produced by Stefano Casali. These ubber cute series began as a series of little love notes that Kim Grove drew for her future husband, Roberto Casali. Kim Casali died in June 1997. Since then, her son Stefano Casali has maintained the strip although it is always shown as "by Kim Casali" and signed "Kim" instead of Stefano.

Love Is... has been translated in many languages.

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Thought Provoking Life Stories (2)

Welcome to this week's edition of Fantastic Friday, where we talk about happiness and inspiration and everything that goes in between!

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I came across this wonderful site that shares life stories of real people told in the fewest words, each with a subtle lesson for the heart. Here are my five picks for this week's token of inspiration.

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Source: Makes Me Think

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Good luck for each and everyone of them :)

Rise and Shine!

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God: A Love Born of Faith

When do you know someone is listening to your prayers? When was the last time you knew the sorrow you carried in your fragile heart was incurable by every single doctor, surgeon or expert that walks on the face of this planet? Some things are granted by God alone. Like hearing the unsaid, like ridding your heart of fear, like giving you the strength of staying strong, like gifting you the courage to say the bitter truth, like holding your heart when it can easily turn cold, like holding you by your finger and it becomes your lifeline to sanity... like cradling you through nights no one knows you've cried. God and God alone lets you be the best you can be.

And likewise, some things only God knows. He gives you a protected life as a child, with loving parents who watch over you and protect you from all troubles. And when you grow up, God gives you one little bump at a time till you have wings to fly, till your faith becomes so strong you needn't anything else. God and God alone shapes you in the person you are meant to be by teaching you, showing you, loving you, testing you and then rewarding you.

My faith in people has been shaken not because people were untrustworthy, but because only one faith exists in this Universe and that is the faith in Allah. You and I may have different notions for what that Higher Being is but we all look in the same direction, we all look for the same faith, at the same sky. When my heart could turn icy cold, He held in in His Mighty Hands and kept it warm so many painful times. The thinnest chord that led me to Him was the strongest. He taught me, showed me, tested me and then, I believe, He decided to reward me. My heart blooms with His warmth. My faith in Him is my lifeline.

I wish you all a life of Faith, Belief, Love and Miracle that only God can create. Stay blessed.

Love's a Child - Valentines' Day Special

defy what you know

and come with me

on a journey to the unknown.

let your heart answer

your highest calling

may this darkness pass

into one of our brightest

tomorrows.

defy reason

resist distrust

dare logic

the path to me

will be painful of all

but the path to me

will be rewarding of all

for i am the one

who keeps your heart

and i am the one

who knows your heart

come to me darling

for safe keeping

as a child would

his silly notions of love.

the cupid child who

never wants to grow up,

as would love

for love is tainted with

years of wisdom

let love be a child

who sees the world

with the purest eyes

the clearest of hearts

the tenderest of emotions

and let this love between us

grow into something

only a blind cupid would know.

Dedicated to my husband.
Happy Valentines' Day, darling.

Love is... Knowing your heart is in the right place!

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"Love Is..." has been translated in many languages.

More Love Is comics here:

Love is the sparkle he puts in your life

Love is being able to say you're sorry

Love is holding onto every precious moment

I love the places you take me!

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"How do I love thee let me count the ways"

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Text credits: You Make Me Happy: And Other Things I Love About You (Harold's Planet)

Unfinished Stories

Unfinished stories have a way with calling out to you by your name. There is something vulnerable about them that invites nurturing; like a crying child who loses the way home. These unfinished stories want you to cradle them in your arms once more, to soothe them, deal with all their loose ends and complete them. How desperately you want to give in to all this subtle imploring and play the woman, the ever-nurturing mother. But what you don't know is that they want to seep into your system. That's is the only chance they have for survival. Do not let these abandoned tales get to you. They are like slow poison. Run far, far away.

My Lonely City

A lonely city this is. I watch the sun go down with my deep brown eyes. It gives off shadows that spread like dark winged angels on my city that shines as a diamond by the radiant sun. I watch. The tall buildings. I think of the people living in each of them. People with budding hearts, hearts the beat, hearts that resonate with love. One of those hearts belong to me, that darling, silent, unknown heart that I have known for all time.

A lonely city this is. I watch scores and scores of people, and yet, sometimes it seems like a barren, deserted place. A lonely car I see far off, headed towards an unknown destination. An unknown journey. Take me with you, silent rider, and may be in the midst of not knowing, I'll strip off the last layer of camouflage that suffocates my skin, bare myself to you, in the hopes that you will know me for all my ugliness, for all my weaknesses, for all my sorrow.

A lonely city this is. Let's leave its quiet loneliness behind and drive away to our new mysterious stopping point. I want to lose my silence in yours. Tell me all your sorrows and may be, just may be, you can be convinced that I am what your dying heart needs. Your faint heart beat needs two warm hands to hold it and keep it from fading. Let those hands be mine. Then may be, you won't have to leave my lonely city by nightfall like this. May be , the loneliness won't intimidate you any longer, and may be you'll stay. For me.

Life Partners; So You're in it for life!

Women are to be treated as queens. Any man is not a man till he understands and accepts that his respect is due to all the women around him, especially when it comes to his wife.

A wife is every thing from your best friend to your life partner, but make sure you give her the due position and respect she deserves. First and foremost of her rights is love and respect, without condition.

Love her, accept her, help her into her new life with you, and she will surprise you with the way she loves you back. Love her unconditionally, for she leaves her family, friends and her whole life and steps into yours to start a new one, just with you. Do not underestimate any sacrifice she makes for you.

Love her when she sips on your coffee or tea. She only wants to make sure it tastes just right for you.

Love her when she "pushes" you to pray. She wants to be with you in Jannah (Paradise).

Love her when she asks you to play with the kids. She did not "make" them on her own.

Love her when she is jealous. Out of all the men she can have, she chose you.

Love her when she has annoying little habits that drives you nuts. You have them too.

Love her when her cooking is bad. She tries.

Love her when she asks if she looks fat. Your opinion counts, so tell her she's beautiful.

Love her when she looks beautiful. She's yours so appreciate her.

Love her when she spends hours to get ready. She only wants to look her best for you.

Love her when she cries for absolutely nothing. Don't ask, just tell her its going to be okay.

Love her when she suffers from PMS. Buy chocolate, rub her feet and back and just chat to her (trust me this works!)

Love her when whatever you do is not pleasing her. It happens to every one once in a while and hers will pass too.

Love her when she tells you how to drive. She only wants you to be safe.

Love her simply because she is yours. You don't need any other reason more special than that!

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Lights will guide you home, and ignite your bones, and I will try... to fix you...

There must be a perfect love out there somewhere, the kind of love which leaps up into anything and everything for you. I'm sure it's not something out of this world, because there are so many people who have lived their whole lives together and have grown old together. I know at my age, things like love and life are totally overrated. And I also know that at my age, it's gona be just about one of these days that I'll wake up with a thoroughly practical view of how love should be lived in this life. I'll wait for that day when finally my mind will rule my emotions and it will all get easy.

Till that day comes, I guess I'll enjoy this joy ride no matter how absurd it gets. This is a 17 year old speaking from the mouth of a 24 year old: I know there's love out there, the kind that saves you from perdition and restores you to yourself. The kind that holds hands and closes eyes, the kind that leave love notes under the pillow and the kind that gifts flowers. The kind that kisses you to sleep and wake you to more kisses. The kind that makes every happiness worth while and every sadness seem as the passing phase it surely is. The kind that make you feel like a woman and a girl all at the same time, intimate, close and so very dear. There must be a rainbow for each and every one of us; may we all get to see our dreams with that someone special and not without one. You are beautiful to someone.

Good luck. Both of you.

Love Is being able to say you are sorry!

"Love Is... being able to say you're sorry!"
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"Love is..." is a famous comic strip created by New Zealand artist Kim Grove in the late 1960s. Later they were produced by Stefano Casali. These ubber cute series began as a series of little love notes that Kim Grove drew for her future husband, Roberto Casali. Kim Casali died in June 1997. Since then, her son Stefano Casali has maintained the strip although it is always shown as "by Kim Casali" and signed "Kim" instead of Stefano.

Love Is... has been translated in many languages.

More "Love Is..." comics here