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a trained mind is your strongest ally—and an untrained one your worst enemy.’
Love was full of contradictions. Sometimes the person you loved weakened you and sometimes he or she made you a stronger person. But under exactly what conditions did these very different changes occur?
Even if we love them with our entire being, even if we’re willing to commit the most heinous sin for their well-being. We must understand and respect the values that drive them. We must want what they want, not what we want for them.
once mistrust has wounded it mortally, love can’t be fully healed again.
Such is the seduction of love: it makes you not want to think too much. It makes you unwilling to question the one you love.
How entangled love is with expectation, that poison vine! The stronger the expectation, the more our anger towards the beloved if he doesn’t fulfil it—and the less our control over ourselves.
Forgiveness is more difficult when love is involved.
I pondered the word endure, what it meant. It didn’t mean giving in. It didn’t mean being weak or accepting injustice. It meant taking the challenges thrown at us and dealing with them as intelligently as we knew until we grew stronger than them.
