On Love and Forgiveness
The highest respect you can show people is to let them take responsibility for their own actions. Love has this power, the power to let people be responsible for hurting us. … When we really love people with respect, we let them be accountable for what they do to us. And then we face the […]
Effective Discipline
Discipline doesn’t work unless it’s founded on the kind of security that comes from knowing you’re loved. — Madeleine L’Engle, A Live Coal in the Sea
Real Love Isn’t Always Kind
… Love, in its own nature, demands the perfecting of the beloved…the mere “kindness” which tolerates anything except suffering in its object is, in that respect, at the opposite pole from Love. — C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain
About Love
If I can speak all the languages on earth and in heaven, but I have no love, I am just a noisy brass instrument, a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy, and can understand every mystery, and if I know all that there is to know; if I have so much faith […]
On Love
Love works no ill against his neighbour; therefore, love is the fulfillment of the law. — The Bible, Romans 13:10
Children and Their Parents
Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them. — Oscar Wilde
On Love
Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real. — Iris Murdoch
What Is the Opposite of Love?
The opposite of love is not hate; it is indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy; it is indifference. And the opposite of life is not death; it is indifference. Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies. — Elie Wiesel
What’s Love Got to Do With It?
Love is not blind — it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less. — Rabbi Julius Gordon
Would Renee Zellweger Find You Attractive?
I like to have nice conversations with a man that teach me something, make me mad, make me curious. Then I find him attractive. — Renee Zellweger in Cosmopolitan, as quoted in Reader’s Digest