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“If you love a person,
you accept the total person.
With all the defects.
Because those defects are a part of the person.
Never try to change a person you love,
because the very effort to change says that you love half,
and the other half of the person is not accepted.
When you love,
you simply love.”
Osho
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If you love someone or something, you need to act LOVING. If you aren’t consistently loving in relationships at best they’ll go stale, at worst there will be mistreatment. That includes the relationship with yourself.
Most importantly, if someone says they love you but treat you like garbage, they don’t. Be loving to yourself and leave.
Incorporating this frame of mind into your thoughts and actions is life changing.
Jul 17, 2024
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“Love isn't a state of perfect caring. It is an active noun like struggle. To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is, right here and now.“
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"When we love a person, we accept him or her exactly as is: the lovely with the unlovely, the strong with the fear-ful, the true mixed in with the façade, and of course, the only way we can do it is by accepting ourselves that way."
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"Everyone longs to be loved. And the greatest thing we can do is to let people know that they are loved and capable of loving."
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“We need to help people to discover the true meaning of love. Love is generally confused with dependence. Those of us who have grown in true love know that we can love only in proportion to our capacity for independence.”
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"Love is at the root of everything - all learning, all parenting, all relationships...love, or the lack of it."
Apr 25, 2024
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On one hand: it just flows. You can't get enough of them. Your eyes, their eyes—could be the only thing that matters in the whole world. Their voice hits you like electricity. When alone, you wonder why you aren't with them. Mundane things, at their side, become adventures. You occupy your own universe that is a secret from all others.
And on the other hand: it is a labor. Your beloved, who stirs and ignites your affection so much, is also the one who most exposes your pride and weaknesses. As you dive into them and truly know them, you discover they are broken and selfish and human. And they discover that about you. The easy slide down the snowy hill of excitement becomes a long drag back up the other side.
But then the two of you put those parts together: combine the thrill and the sparkle with the messiness and the suffering. Your together love becomes something deeper and more enduring. You say: I see you fully but I choose you still, with all my heart and soul.
It becomes something that will withstand any storms that may come, something more mature and tested:
"Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction." —Antoine de Saint-Exupery:
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so broke to actually buy toilet paper also idk what my roommates could have been using either cause they didn’t buy any.
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