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FindCenter Quotes ImageTo love well is the task in all meaningful relationships, not just romantic bonds.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageThe practice of love offers no place of safety. We risk loss, hurt, pain. We risk being acted upon by forces outside our control.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageIndividuals who want to believe that there is no fulfillment in love, that true love does not exist, cling to these assumptions because this despair is actually easier to face than the reality that love is a real fact of life but is absent from their lives.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageOne of the best guides to how to be self-loving is to give ourselves the love we are often dreaming about receiving from others.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageLove is an action, never simply a feeling.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageWe fear that evaluating our needs and then carefully choosing partners will reveal that there is no one for us to love. Most of us prefer to have a partner who is lacking than no partner at all. What becomes apparent is that we may be more interested in finding a partner than in knowing love.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageA generous heart is always open, always ready to receive our going and coming. In the midst of such love we need never fear abandonment. This is the most precious gift true love offers—the experience of knowing we always belong.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageLove is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageMany people want love to function like a drug, giving them an immediate and sustained high. They want to do nothing, just passively receive the good feeling.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageAll too often women believe it is a sign of commitment, an expression of love, to endure unkindness or cruelty, to forgive and forget. In actuality, when we love rightly we know that the healthy, loving response to cruelty and abuse is putting ourselves out of harm’s way.

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