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The Tasks & Joys of Love
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The Critical Tasks of Love
Task: Understand What People Need
When we understand the needs that motivate our own and others behavior, we have no enemies.
- Marshall Rosenberg
The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity.
- Arthur James Balfour
Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force ... When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold [and come to life ...] and expand. Ideas actually begin to grow within us and come to life .... When we listen to people there is an alternating current, and this recharges us so that we never get tired of each other ... and it is this little creative fountain inside of us that begins to spring and cast up new thoughts and unexpected laughter and wisdom. ...Well, it is when people really listen to us, with quiet fascinated attention, that the little fountain begins to work again, to accelerate in the most surprising way.
- Brenda Ueland
Enjoy everything. Need nothing. Needing someone is the fastest way to kill a relationship .. The greatest gift you can give someone is the strength and the power not to need you, to need you for nothing.
- Neale Donald Walsch (Conversations with God /2)
A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations.
- Bertrand Russell
Task: Be Compassionate
Agape given grows, agape hoarded dwindles.
- unknown
None knows the weight of another's burdens.
- George Herbert
Task: Stand Up For Those Who Can't
It felt like the right thing to say. It probably was the wrong thing to say ... I feel like I have to stick up 4 people who are being bullied.
- Girl In The Café (movie quote)
Task: Know Who Your Enemies Are & How 2 Deal with Them
I have been watching you with great interest and I have come to believe that you have much more potential than anyone so far acknowledged. ~ Pot.ten.it.al, ister? {Beware of undeserved and un.Warren.Ted flattery}
- Earthsea (TV movie quote)
Task: Share Your Love
Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket–safe, dark, motionless, airless–it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.
- C. S. Lewis
Task: Tell Your Loved Ones How You Feel
Darcy: What endearments am I allowed?
Elizabeth : Well, let me think. ‘Lizzie', 4 every day. ‘My Pearl ', for Sun.days. And ‘Goddess Divine' – but only on very special occasions. You may only call me Mrs. Darcy (Mrs. Card.Y) when you are completely ... and perfectly and in.cande/sently happy.
Darcy: And how are you this eve.N.i.ng, Mrs. Darcy? Mrs. Darcy ... Mrs. D.ar.sea ... Miss.US Darcy ...Miss.U.s D.R.C ...
- Pride and Prejudice (movie quote)
People change and forget to tell each other.
- Lillian Hellman
Assumptions are the termites of relationships.
- Henry Winkler
Do not save your loving speeches
For your friends till they are dead;
Do not write them on their tombstones,
Speak them rather now instead.- Anna Cummins
Task: Show Your Loved Ones How You Feel
Once someone touches your heart their fingerprints are there forever.
- Unknown
Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for a while and leave footprints on our hearts. And we are never, ever the same.
- Unknown
Sex can bring magic into a relationship, and anchor it in a way that no amount of talking or doing things together can.
- Thomas Moore (Soul Mates)
Task: Discover Yourself Through Others
Pleasure is produced by the union of excitement and affection.
- Balzac
Falling in love consists in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense[s].
- Helen Rowland
Task: Forgive Gracefully When it is Earned
Life is an adventure in forgiveness.
- Norman Cousins
