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.
I think you're a wonder. You're beautiful. You're mature. You are, I admit, vastly more experienced than I am. That's what threw me. I was thrown. Forgive me.
My request is not for bliss of the Garden. I only desire to see You.
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
For the Warrior of Light there is no such thing as an impossible love. He is not intimidated by silence, indifference or rejection. He knows that, behind the mask of ice that people wear, there beats a heart of fire. Without love, he is nothing.
Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That's a gift that you have received from God. Don't waste it.
I fell in love with music by listening to R&B, & it's the core of who I am.
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