“Loving someone means
helping them to be more themselves, which can be different from being what you’d like them to be, although often they turn out the same.”
— Merle Shain
Scott Peck wrote in The Road Less Travelled “Love is the willingness to improve one’s self for the benefit of another.”
You Will Rise
“You will rise, and you will fall,
You will get discouraged, you will become encouraged,
But always you will be progressing,
Always,
And so you must simply stick to it
And the day will come
When you will no longer say
‘I hope, I desire, I pray,’
But you will say
‘I know.’”
— Earnest Holmes, from “Love and Law”
I must say, this is one of my favorite quotes.