The day of hearts and flowers, sweet notes, diamonds and chocolates is over. Symbols often masquerade as love, and sometimes love sweetly masquerades behind symbols. It fascinates me how many symbols we have for the real thing called love. How many ideas, expectations, definitions. Yes, we all know that love is patient. Love is kind. We've heard all the sentiments about perfect love so many times, and so many times we and our partners, children, parents, friends have and will fall short of the ideal. Thankfully, we don't need perfect love to feel loved. We can thrive on imperfect love. When we look for perfect love, we rarely find it, but when we welcome good-enough love, we find it everywhere. It makes us feel warm and liquid -y, puts a smile on our face, a sparkle in our eyes and a dance in our step.
Here are some post-Valentine's Day thoughts from others, far wiser than I, on the subject of love:
In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person.
— Margaret Anderson
To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
— Lao-Tzu
Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking together in the same direction.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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