People tend to be somehow dreamy at this time of the year — when Valentine's Day comes. For many of people romance and love go beyond the realm of imagination. Their dreams come true, no matter the circumstances, space, time and distance included.

In our Valentine's Week issue, we bring you two stories about love and distance – and how the real-life characters, or perhaps the circumstances surrounding them, have bridged that geographical gap to bring their lives and hearts together.

One story is about love that started in a plane – where two people were destined to sit beside each other in a true-life tale. Perhaps the idea is not that original, or even trite for a plot romantic novel, but it happened and soon love found its way, linking Luxembourg to the Philippines . The other started in a call center with a trainor from Canada coming to the city and later discovering a brewing excitement in the work place that is leading to a post-Valentine's Day a later date with a bubbly Bacolod girl.

Indeed, it truly works in mysterious ways. No wonder, endless words have been used to express this particular thought and feeling. We checked out some online sources on how love is described by others and we came up with the following choices.

Mother Theresa calls love “the greatest science in the world; in heave and on earth.” Vi Putnam described it this way: “The entire sum of existence is the magic of being needed by just one person”.

It' works on the extreme for Michael Leunig: “Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Contrary to the expression that “love is blind”, someone wrote it is not for “it simply enables one to see things that others fail to see”. What Sam Keen wrote adds substance to that: “You come to love not by finding the perfect person but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly.”

St. Bernard of Clairvaux emphasizes the value of inner peace in love. “We find rest in those we love, and we provide a resting place in ourselves for those who love us.” Jackson Browne puts more meaning when he said. “Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.” As the Bible says, “Love bears all, believes, hopes for and endures all,” with Kahlil Gibran reinforcing the thought with his line: “And think not you can guide the course of love for love, it finds you worthy, shall guide your course.”

St. Paul , in his letter to the Corinthians, reinforces the rhyme and reason of love by writing: Even though I have the gift of all knowledge and faith, providing the poor with their needs but if I have no love in me, I am nothing.