Why We Need Love In Our Lives

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‘Love is a surrender. You expose your deepest vulnerabilities and give up your illusions of self-mastery.’- David Brooks

‘Love depends on the willingness of each person to be vulnerable and it deepens that vulnerability.’- David Brooks

‘Love leads you out your natural state of self-love.’- David Brooks

‘Love makes other people more vivid to you than you are to yourself.’- David Brooks

Love is submission, not decision.’- David Brooks

‘Love demands that you make a poetic surrender to an inexplicable power without counting the cost.’- David Brooks

We don’t build love; we fall in love, out of control.’- David Brooks

‘Love asks you to discard conditional thinking and to pour out your love in full force and not measure it by tablespoons.’- David Brooks

‘Love is a state of poetic need; it exists on both a higher and a lower plane than logic and calculation.’- David Brooks

‘Love opens up the facility for spiritual awareness. It is an altered state of consciousness that is intense and overwhelming but at the same time effervescent.’- David Brooks

‘… love provides a glimpse of some realm beyond the edge of what we know. It also in a more practical sense enlarges the heart.’- David Brooks

‘Love is like a plow that opens up hard ground and allow things to grow.’- David Brooks

‘The more you love, the more you can love.’- David Brooks

‘Love expands with use.’- David Brooks

‘Love ennobles and transforms.’- David Brooks

Stop Expecting Things To Be Perfect

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Yes, ‘judge me when you are perfect.’ Are you perfect? If you are not perfect, then why are you expecting others to be perfect?

Why are you expecting things to be perfect? If that is what you want, you are going to be disappointed.

Why is that? Because nothing is perfect. Life is not perfect. People are not perfect. You are not perfect. No one is perfect.

According to Terry L. Paulson, ‘Expecting that everything will go well is not healthy; in fact, unrealistic expectations are a sure road to unhappiness.’

So if you want to grow, don’t worry about being perfect. Instead of striving to be perfect, why not strive for self-improvement?