Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
Interpretation
Love has a healing effect on both the giver and the receiver.
This quote by Karl A. Menninger emphasizes the profound impact of love on individuals. It suggests that love acts as a remedy, not just for those who receive it, but also for those who express it. The act of giving love can foster a sense of purpose and fulfillment, while receiving love can provide comfort and healing in difficult times.
In practice
During a speech about community service at a fundraiser.
People repeat in adult life emotions they experience in childhood. Many of the people whom I spent the last 30 or 40 years treating at so much per minute wouldn't have needed any treatment at all if they had had the right care as children.
We have come to see that just as the child must learn to love wisely, so he must learn to hate expeditiously, to turn destructive tendencies away from himself toward enemies that actually threaten him rather than toward the friendly and the defenseless, the more usual victims of destructive energy.
We need criminals to identify ourselves with, to secretly envy and to stoutly punish. They do for us the forbidden, illegal things we wish to do.
Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.
What's done to children, they will do to society.
Our lives are shaped by those who love us as well as those who refuse to love us.
Anne hoped she had outlived the age of blushing; but the age of emotion she certainly had not.
When you serve others, when you make somebody elseβs life better, when you lift up people, when you help heal those that are hurting, not only are they being blessed, but youβre being blessed.
It is staggering that God should love sinners, yet it is true.
Love is sweet, dearest Ned, but it cannot change a man's nature. -- Lyanna
I'm in love with language again because Luke B. Goebel is not afraid to take us back through the gullet of loss into the chaos of words. Someone burns a manuscript in Texas; someone's speed sets a life on fire; a heart is beaten nearly to death, the road itself is the trip, a man is decreated back to his animal past--better, beyond ego, beautiful, and look: there's an American dreamscape left. There's a reason to go on.
The brain may take advice, but not the heart, and love having no geography, knows no boundaries: weight and sink it deep, no matter, it will rise and find the surface: and why not? Any love is natural and beautiful that lies within a person's nature; only hypocrites would hold a man responsible for what he loves, emotional illiterates and those of righteous envy, who, in their agitated concern, mistake so frequently the arrow pointing to heaven for the one that leads to hell.
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