I think whenever you love something or somebody it means that you have to extend yourself, you have to grow - get a little larger. You can't stay in your little comfortable - spot.
Interpretation
Loving someone requires personal growth and stepping out of your comfort zone.
This quote highlights the transformative power of love, suggesting that to truly love someone or something means to expand oneself beyond familiar boundaries. It emphasizes that love is a dynamic force that encourages individuals to develop and evolve, leaving behind comfort and embracing growth.
In practice
During a speech about the importance of love in relationships.
It is really hard to be lonely very long in a world of words. Even if you don't have friends somewhere, you still have language, and it will find you and wrap its little syllables around you and suddenly there will be a story to live in.
I am looking for the human who admits his flaws Who shocks the adversary By being kinder not stronger What would that be like? We don't even know
I love the solitude of reading. I love the deep dive into someone else's story, the delicious ache of a last page.
A boy told me if he roller-skated fast enough his loneliness couldn't catch up to him, the best reason I ever heard for trying to be a champion. What I wonder tonight pedaling hard down King William Street is if it translates to bicycles. A victory! To leave your loneliness panting behind you on some street corner while you float free into a cloud of sudden azaleas, pink petals that have never felt loneliness, no matter how slowly they fell.
As a direct line to human feeling, empathic experience, genuine language and detail, poetry is everything that headline news is not. It takes us inside situations, helps us imagine life from more than one perspective, honors imagery and metaphor - those great tools of thought - and deepens our confidence in a meaningful world.
I support all people on earth who have bodies like and unlike my body.
So if we love someone, we should train in being able to listen. By listening with calm and understanding, we can ease the suffering of another person. [True Love. A Practice for Awakening the Heart.]
If you want to fall in love, you can't hold everything in. You have to open up, take that risk. You'll be hurt sometimes, but if you don't, you'll never be happy. The one you find may not be the kind of woman you expected to fall in love with, but it wont matter, you'll love her for exactly what she is.
She reflected she must be completely besotted about Peter, if his laughter could hallow an aspidistra.
I think 'The Color Purple' is so bursting with love, the need for connection, the showing of the need for connection around the globe.
It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love.
Women were like rivers, their banks were unreachable, the night often rang with the cries of the drowned.
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