it's not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself
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complete love
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"If you believe yourself unfortunate, because you have loved and lost, perish the thought.  One who has loved truly, can never lose entirely.  Love is whimsical and temperamental.  It comes when it pleases, and goes away without warning.  Accept and enjoy it while it remains, but spend no time worrying about its departure.  Worry will never bring it back.

Dismiss, also, the thought that love never comes but once.  Love may come and go, times without number, but there are no tow love experiences which affect one in just the same way.  There may be, and there usually is, one love experience which leaves a deeper imprint on the heart than all the others, but al love experiences are beneficial, except to the person who becomes resentful and cynical when love makes its departure." (173)

-Napolean Hill, Think and Grow Rich
"We conceive of [love] falsely- as a feeling, as novelty, as bound up with youth and beauty.  We fall into domestic habits and routine relationships and assume that love will take care of itself, which, of course, it will not. We expect an explosion at the beginning powerful enough to fuel love through all of its ups and downs instead of viewing love as a process over which we have control, a process that tends to increase with time rather than wane."

-Robert Soloman
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