I think whenever you love something or somebody it means that you have to extend yourself, you have to grow - get a little larger. You can't stay in your little comfortable - spot.
Interpretation
Loving someone requires personal growth and stepping out of your comfort zone.
This quote highlights the transformative power of love, suggesting that to truly love someone or something means to expand oneself beyond familiar boundaries. It emphasizes that love is a dynamic force that encourages individuals to develop and evolve, leaving behind comfort and embracing growth.
In practice
During a speech about the importance of love in relationships.
It is really hard to be lonely very long in a world of words. Even if you don't have friends somewhere, you still have language, and it will find you and wrap its little syllables around you and suddenly there will be a story to live in.
I am looking for the human who admits his flaws Who shocks the adversary By being kinder not stronger What would that be like? We don't even know
I love the solitude of reading. I love the deep dive into someone else's story, the delicious ache of a last page.
A boy told me if he roller-skated fast enough his loneliness couldn't catch up to him, the best reason I ever heard for trying to be a champion. What I wonder tonight pedaling hard down King William Street is if it translates to bicycles. A victory! To leave your loneliness panting behind you on some street corner while you float free into a cloud of sudden azaleas, pink petals that have never felt loneliness, no matter how slowly they fell.
As a direct line to human feeling, empathic experience, genuine language and detail, poetry is everything that headline news is not. It takes us inside situations, helps us imagine life from more than one perspective, honors imagery and metaphor - those great tools of thought - and deepens our confidence in a meaningful world.
I support all people on earth who have bodies like and unlike my body.
I may say that B-love, in a profound but testable sense, creates the partner. It gives him a self-image, it gives him self- acceptance, a feeling of love-worthiness, all of which permit him to grow. It is a real question whether the full development of the human being is possible without it.
When you are in love, things make even more sense, he thought.
And the merry love the fiddle, and the merry love to dance.
You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.
I may not be a smart man, but I know what love is.
Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.
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