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FindCenter Quotes ImageI want there to be a place in the world where people can engage in one another’s differences in a way that is redemptive, full of hope and possibility. Not this ‘In order to love you, I must make you something else.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageWhen men and women punish each other for truth telling, we reinforce the notion that lies are better. To be loving we willingly hear the other’s truth, and most important, we affirm the value of truth telling. Lies may make people feel better, but they do not help them to know love.

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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 ImageLove is an action, never simply a feeling.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageGiving generously in romantic relationships, and in all other bonds, means recognizing when the other person needs our attention. Attention is an important resource.

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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 ImageUsually adult males who are unable to make emotional connections with the women they choose to be intimate with are frozen in time, unable to allow themselves to love for fear that the loved one will abandon them.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageWhen we face pain in relationships our first response is often to sever bonds rather than to maintain commitment.

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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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