the essence of love is... annoyance?
Brian Cloutier and added
To say that love is our essence has a consoling ring. But it can fill us with terror when we feel unloved. Not to be loved or responded to as lovable then becomes the equivalent of having no essence, being all alone in the world.
David Richo • How to Be an Adult in Love: Letting Love in Safely and Showing It Recklessly
True love includes a sense of responsibility and accepting the other person as she is, with all her strengths and weaknesses. If you only like the best things in a person, that is not love. You have to accept her weaknesses and bring your patience, understanding, and energy to help her transform.
Jason DeAntonis • How to Love (Mindful Essentials)
simon added
Love is a verb.
love can be fairly well summed up in a single word: patience.
Eknath Easwaran • Passage Meditation - A Complete Spiritual Practice: Train Your Mind and Find a Life that Fulfills (Essential Easwaran Library Book 1)
Talking about love is one of the grand traditions of being alive: what it means to fall in and out of it, how to keep it, how to grieve it, how to live for ourselves and toward another .1
Evana • Birthday letters (III)
only the internet, where you got to know people backward, soul-first
Katherine Dee • Computer Love
gabriel added
sublime.app