#conditional

Learning to have patience and not forcing the relationship is part of the twin soul process. If you are trying to force your will onto the other person, chances are you’re not ready to really connect yourself. There should be no blame here - only deep and unconditional love. ↗

— Chimnese Davids

#love #pain #unconditional-love #love

Speaker calls the Christian counselor to look at each person as soul embodied with unique challenges that move us. This is not, he says, the first step before we get on to important business but vital in and of itself. ↗

— Ed Welch

#business

A mother's love is instinctual, unconditional, and forever. ↗

— Revathi Sankaran

#motherhood #unconditional-love #love

Pero ni los conventos tienen muros bastante elevados, ni las madres tienen cerraduras suficientemente complicadas, ni la religión deberes lo necesariamente estrechos para encerrar a esos encantadores pajarillos en sus jaulas, sobre las cuales apenas nos dignamos a arrojar algunas flores. Y es que ellas sienten irresistibles deseos de conocer ese mundo que tan cuidadosamente se les oculta, anhelan penetrar el enigma que creen tan tentador, escuchan conmovidas la primera voz que a través de los barrotes llega a sus oídos contándoles secretos y bendice la primera mano que alza una pluma del velo misterioso. ↗

— Alexandre Dumas-filss

#unconditional-love #love

If you have realistic ideals and can generally live up to them, your self-esteem will not be threatened. If your ideals are exaggerated and you cannot reach them, your good feelings from successes may be short lived, and you may feel that you are never good enough. The continued hope for the impossible, the expectation that you will or can be unconditionally loved and adored, is not facing reality but rather holding onto an idealized image of yourself and an idealized version of what others can provide. If this is the case, your sense of self may be threatened by shame and its resulting depression, or by feelings of inadequacy for not living up to your unrealistic ideals. A better understanding of shame may help you recognize your tendency to hide what you feel from yourself and others. ↗

— Mary C. Lamia

#ideals #self-esteem #shame #unconditional-love #love

If we could all love each and every person that crosses our path a little bit more, we could attain inner peace with the knowledge that many people on this planet would be hurting a whole lot less. ↗

— Molly Friedenfeld

#happiness #hurting #inner-peace #inspirational-quotes #joy

Most of the slaves, who were thus unconditionally freed, returned without any solicitation to their former masters, to serve them, at stated wages; as free men. The work, which they now did, was found to better done than before. ↗

— Thomas Clarkson

#before #better #did #done #former

The thing about science fiction is that it's totally wide open. But it's wide open in a conditional way. ↗

— Octavia Butler

#conditional #fiction #open #science #science fiction

Love is supreme and unconditional; like is nice but limited. ↗

— Duke Ellington

#like #limited #love is #nice #supreme

Mom was the one who taught me unconditional love. With Dad, I'd always felt there was something to live up to - expectations. But in the last year, we had a wonderful relationship. ↗

— Greg Louganis

#conditional love #dad #expectations #felt #had