When you love people, you love them as they are, not as you wish them to be, not as you hope to help them become, but as they are. When you love people, you love them because they are who they are; not loving in order to change them, not loving as a way of remaking them. But loving because you love. When you love people,you love them, warts and all.Not blinding yourself to their faults, not denying their imperfections,but loving in spite of.
Loving another person is to commit oneself, with no guarantee of return. To love another is to give oneself,with the risk of rejection. To love another person is to reach out in the hope of love and awaken love in the heart of the other. Love is not dependent on the nature of the one loved but on the nature of the one who loves. Love is not contingent on the beauty of the loved but on the appreciation of the lover. Love is not conditional on the constancy of the beloved but on the fidelity of the one who loves. When you love someone, nothing matters half so much as to accept the other person; to reassure one another; to hear and answer each other; to look deeply into the other's soul and to show your own.
To love someone is to affirm that she is worthy, to bid him to live life freely, to leave her with all her freedom intact, to recognize his dignity as a person, to invite her to grow, to oblige him to be fully what he is, to inspire her to be all that she can be.
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