When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real.
Interpretation
True love from a child can transform an adult's perception of reality.
This quote by Margery Williams suggests that the love of a child is profound and genuine, and it has the power to make a person feel truly authentic and real. When children express their love not just as a fleeting emotion but as a deep connection, it brings out the essence of who we are and reflects the importance of nurturing relationships in our lives.
In practice
In a speech about parenting, one might say, 'When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real.'
Real isn't how you are made. It's a thing that happens to you. Sometimes it hurts, but when you are Real you don't mind being hurt. It doesn't happen all at once. You become. Once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand. Once you are Real you can't become unreal again. It lasts for always.
Real isn't how you are made," said the Skin Horse. "It's a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real." "Does it hurt?" asked the Rabbit. "Sometimes," said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful. "When you are Real you don't mind being hurt.
He didn't mind how he looked to other people, because the nursery magic had made him Real, and when you are Real shabbiness doesn't matter.
When you are Real, shabbiness doesn't matter.
Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand.
When your hands leap towards mine, love, what do they bring me in flight?
All you need in the world is love and laughter. That's all anybody needs. To have love in one hand and laughter in the other.
And the coolness of your smile is stirringofbirds between my arms
But when it comes to being loved, she's first/That's how I know_x000D_ _x000D_ The first cut is the deepest.
Dogs have given us their absolute all. We are the center of their universe. We are the focus of their love and faith and trust. They serve us in return for scraps. It is without a doubt the best deal man has ever made.
Could fulfillment ever be felt as deeply as loss? Romantically she decided that love must surely reside in the gap between desire and fulfillment, in the lack, not the contentment. Love was the ache, the anticipation, the retreat, everything around it but the emotion itself.
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