Boys and girls should be taught respect for each other's liberty... and that jealousy and possessiveness kill love.
Interpretation
Respect and freedom are essential for healthy relationships, while jealousy harms love.
In this quote, Bertrand Russell emphasizes the importance of teaching boys and girls to respect one anotherβs freedom and autonomy. He warns that feelings of jealousy and possessiveness can stifle love and lead to toxic dynamics in relationships, advocating for a foundation of mutual respect instead of control.
In practice
During a relationship workshop, this quote could be used to highlight the importance of respect.
St. Paul introduced an entirely novel view of marriage, that it existed primarily to prevent the sin of fornication. It is just as if one were to maintain that the sole reason for baking bread is to prevent people from stealing cake.
Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.
Of these austerer virtues the love of truth is the chief, and in mathematics, more than elsewhere, the love of truth may find encouragement for waning faith. Every great study is not only an end in itself, but also a means of creating and sustaining a lofty habit of mind; and this purpose should be kept always in view throughout the teaching and learning of mathematics.
At all times, except when a monarch could enforce his will, war has been facilitated by the fact that vigorous males, confident of victory, enjoyed it, while their females admired them for their prowess.
Moreover, the attitude that one ought to believe such and such a proposition, independently of the question whether there is evidence in its favor, is an attitude which produces hostility to evidence and causes us to close our minds to every fact that does not suit our prejudices.
Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
The bones of the story of 'War Horse' is a love story. That's what makes it universal.
Dorothy was in that state human beings passed through at the beginning of a love affair, in which they desire to say anything and everything to the beloved, to the alter ego, before they have learned what the real Other can and can't understand, can and can't accept.
When mystics use the word love, they use it very carefully - in the deeply spiritual sense, where to love is to know; to love is to act. If you really love, from the depths of your Consciousness, that love gives you a native wisdom. You perceive the needs of others intuitively and clearly, with detachment from any personal desires; and you know how to act creatively to meet those needs, dexterously surmounting any obstacle that comes in the way. Such is the immense, driving power of love.
I'll find you. Don't worry. Just be on your own and I'll find you.
... and she loved a boy very, very much-- even more than she loved herself.
He'll love and hate equally under cover, and esteem it a species of impertinence to loved or hated again.
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