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John Joseph Powell Quote on Self-Worth and How Interactions Are A Mirror For What’s Within

    “It is an absolute human certainty that no one can know his own beauty or perceive a sense of his own worth until it has been reflected back to him in the mirror of another loving, caring human being.”

    John Joseph Powell, The Secret of Staying in Love

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    Mirrors allow us to see our external self. Human interaction allows us to see our internal self. Without mirrors, we wouldn’t be able to truly know how we looked. We can get a sense of how we look and we might be able to guess, but it is only through the reflection of a mirror that we can ever be sure. Without human interaction, how might we ever truly grasp the content of our character?

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    Buddha Quote on Life and Understanding The Difference Between “I Like You” and “I Love You.”

      “When you like a flower, you just pluck it. But, when you love a flower, you water it daily. One who understands this, understands life.”

      Buddha

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      “Liking” is superficial. “Loving” is deep. “Liking” is occasional and when it’s convenient. “Loving” is regular and prioritized. “Liking” keeps you the same. “Loving” helps you grow. One who understands the difference between “liking” and “loving” in life understands the difference between “existing” and “living” in life.

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      NF Quote from “Only” on Trust

        “If you made a list of people that you trusted/

        Would you put your name down?”

        NF, Only

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        When I heard this line in NF’s song it stayed with me. It brilliantly orients an issue that so many of us confront on a regular basis—trust. Trust is the foundation of every relationship in our lives. Without trust there cannot be a stable relationship. Just like without a proper foundation there cannot be a stable building. Why is trust so important? Because trust is the key that unlocks and opens a person’s vulnerable side. And until a person is vulnerable and open to another—no true relationship can form.

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          “When you deny emotional pain, everything you do or think as well as your relationships become contaminated with it. You broadcast it, so to speak, as the energy you emanate, and others will pick it up subliminally. If they are unconscious, they may even feel compelled to attack or hurt you in some way, or you may hurt them in an unconscious projection of your pain. You attract and manifest whatever corresponds to your inner state.”

          Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now (Page 222)

          Merle Shain Quote on How Loving Someone Should Help Them To Be More Themself

            “Loving someone means helping them to be more themselves, which can be different from being what you’d like them to be, although often they turn out the same.”

            Merle Shain, Some Men Are More Perfect Than Others

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            Never forget that who you want someone to be is none of your business. Love doesn’t manipulate. Love doesn’t control. Love doesn’t place expectations. Love doesn’t try to change people for who they are. Love is never selfish. Love is a pure manifestation of presence, compassion, gratitude, and joy that is shared with the world. Love is patient. Love is free. And love is always kind.

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            Eckhart Tolle Quote on Love and How Love Isn’t Selective or Exclusive

              “Love is not selective, just as the light of the sun is not selective. It does not make one person special. It is not exclusive. Exclusivity is not the love of God but the ‘love’ of ego. However, the intensity with which true love is felt can vary. There may be one person who reflects your love back to you more clearly and more intensely than others, and if that person feels the same toward you, it can be said that you are in a love relationship with him or her. The bond that connects you with that person is the same bond that connects you with the person sitting next to you on a bus, or with a bird, a tree, a flower. Only the degree of intensity with which it is felt differs.”

              Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now (Page 155)

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              This is an important distinction to make. One that many people in relationships fail to recognize. Love is not selective. Love is not an emotion that is rightly reserved for but one person. Love is a way of being. It is an overflowing. It is a contentment, a joy, an excitement, an appreciation, a curiosity, a gentleness, a passion, a presentness that is free of mind and is connected to all that is life.

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                “The greatest catalyst for change in a relationship is complete acceptance of your partner as he or she is, without needing to judge or change them in any way. That immediately takes you beyond ego. All mind games and all addictive clinging are then over. There are no victims and no perpetrators anymore, no accuser and accused. This is also the end of all codependency, of being drawn into somebody else’s unconscious pattern and thereby enabling it to continue. You will either separate—in love—or move ever more deeply into the Now together—into Being. Can it be that simple? Yes, it is that simple.”

                Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now (Page 154)

                  “You are ‘in love’ with your partner. This is at first a deeply satisfying state. You feel intensely alive. Your existence has suddenly become meaningful because someone needs you, wants you, and makes you feel special, and you do the same for him or her. When you are together you feel whole. The feeling can become so intense that the rest of the world fades into insignificance. However, you may also have noticed that there is a neediness and a clinging quality to that intensity. You become addicted to the other person. He or she acts on you like a drug. You are on a high when the drug is available, but even the possibility or the thought that he or she might no longer be there for you can lead to jealousy, possessiveness, attempts at manipulation through emotional blackmail, blaming and accusing—fear of loss. If the other person does leave you, this can give rise to the most intense hostility or the most profound grief and despair. In an instant, loving tenderness can turn into a savage attack or dreadful grief. Where is the love now? Can love change into its opposite in an instant? Was it love in the first place, or just an addictive grasping and clinging?”

                  Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now (Page 149)

                    “how you love yourself is

                    how you teach others

                    to love you”

                    Rupi Kaur, Milk and Honey (Page 186)

                      “there is a difference between

                      someone telling you

                      they love you and

                      them actually

                      loving you”

                      Rupi Kaur, Milk and Honey (Page 162)

                        “you must enter a relationship

                        with yourself

                        before anyone else”

                        Rupi Kaur, Milk and Honey (Page 150)

                          “what i miss most is how you loved me. but what i didn’t know was how you loved me had so much to do with the person i was. it was a reflection of everything i gave to you. coming back to me. how did i not see that. how. did i sit here soaking in the idea that no one else would love me that way. when it was i that taught you. when it was i that showed you how to fill. the way i needed to be filled. how cruel i was to myself. giving you credit for warmth simply because you had felt it. thinking it was you who gave me strength. wit. beauty. simply because you recognized it. as if i was already not these things before i met you. as if i did not remain all these once you left.”

                          Rupi Kaur, Milk and Honey (Page 138)

                            “you mustn’t have to

                            make them want you

                            they must want you themselves”

                            Rupi Kaur, Milk and Honey (Page 96)

                              “love will come

                              and when love comes

                              love will hold you

                              love will call your name

                              and you will melt

                              sometimes though

                              love will hurt you but

                              love will never mean to

                              love will play no games

                              cause love knows life

                              has been hard enough already”

                              Rupi Kaur, Milk and Honey (Page 60)

                                “i do not want to have you

                                to fill the empty parts of me

                                i want to be full on my own

                                i want to be so complete

                                i could light a whole city

                                and then

                                i want to have you

                                cause the two of us combined

                                could set it on fire”

                                Rupi Kaur, Milk and Honey (Page 59)

                                  “he placed his hands

                                  on my mind

                                  before reaching

                                  for my waist

                                  my hips

                                  or my lips

                                  he didn’t call me

                                  beautiful first

                                  he called me

                                  exquisite”

                                  Rupi Kaur, Milk and Honey (Page 54)

                                  Milk and Honey [Book]

                                    Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur

                                    By: Rupi Kaur

                                    From this Book:  19 Quotes

                                    Book Overview:  #1 New York Times bestseller Milk and Honey is a collection of poetry and prose about survival. About the experience of violence, abuse, love, loss, and femininity. The book is divided into four chapters, and each chapter serves a different purpose. Deals with a different pain. Heals a different heartache. Milk and Honey takes readers through a journey of the most bitter moments in life and finds sweetness in them because there is sweetness everywhere if you are just willing to look.

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