Healthy love, I always think, is... wanting the person you love to be more of themselves. And I think for a parent that's a challenge, because you have to let a baby spread its wings.
Interpretation
Healthy love encourages personal growth and independence.
In this quote, Anne-Marie Duff emphasizes that true love involves supporting someone in becoming their best self. For parents, this often means allowing their children the freedom to explore and develop their own identities, which can be challenging as it requires a balance between nurturing and letting go.
In practice
Using this quote in a parenting workshop to illustrate the importance of encouraging children to be themselves.
That's it really; it's all love, whichever way you look at it, it's all love. How much you can Get from each other and that's determined by how much you're Giving to each other... But it all starts Within our self and then it spreads to those around us, Good & Bad. But basically that's it, I think it's the Love that we can generate is = to the Love that we get back Amen
I used to look in the mirror and feel shame, I look in the mirror now and I absolutely love myself.
Perhaps thou gav'st me, though unseen, a kiss; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss.
The man inside of woman ties a knot so that they will never again be separate.
During the year 1894, Pierre Curie wrote me letters that seem to me admirable in their form. No one of them was very long, for he had the habit of concise expression, but all were written in a spirit of sincerity and with an evident anxiety to make the one he desired as a companion know him as he was.
He thought her beautiful, believed her impeccably wise; dreamed of her, wrote poems to her, which, ignoring the subject, she corrected in red ink.
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