Summary: <p>Listen to episode 135 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Hints for Lovers on Valentine’s Day. Adapted from the book “Hints for Lovers” by Arnold Haultain.</p><br> <p><strong>Inspirational Podcast Excerpt</strong>: <em>It is not well to either confide or to confess too much. A very small rock will wreck a very big ship, and a very small slip will spoil a very long life.</em></p><br> <p><em>The surest test of a waning love is that it begins not to concern itself when it sees its object suffer. The surest test of a dead love is that it forgets how to be jealous.</em></p><br> <p><em>With women, love is a river, ever flowing, from the brook in girlhood to the estuary of womanhood. Like a river, too, a woman's love is fed by all the streams it meets. On the other hand, with man, love is a geyser. The obsession of the male heart by one woman ousts from it all other women. However, to the young woman, men continue to be men. That is to say, a man dives headlong into love. A woman paddles into it. And the woman's hesitation at the brink of the stream exasperates the floundering man. In short, a man's heart is captured wholly and at a stroke. A woman's heart surrenders itself piece by piece.</em></p><br> <p><em>In love, a woman is generally cool enough to calculate pros and cons; a man, in a similar plight, is incapable of anything but folly.</em></p><br> <p><em>In love, as in all things, indecision spells ruination.</em></p><br> <p><em>There is no question too subtle, too delicate, too recondite, or too rash, for human eyes to ask or answer. And he who has not learned the language of the eyes, has yet to learn the alphabet of love. Besides, love speaks two languages: one with the lips; the other with the eyes. The eye tells more than the tongue. If eye and tongue contradict one another, believe the eye.</em></p><br> <p><strong>Related Inspirational Podcasts:</strong></p><br> <p><a title="The Psychology of Love" href="http://podcast.livinghour.org/e/the-psychology-of-love-and-marriage/">Love & Marriage Tips</a></p><br> <p><a title="The Prophet" href="http://podcast.livinghour.org/e/kahlil-gibran-on-love-and-marriage/">Kahlil Gibran on Love & Marriage</a></p>
