8 Rules of Love: How to Find It, Keep It, and Let It Go

by Jay Shetty

“When you like a flower, you pluck it. When you love a flower, you water it daily.”

We have a choice: we can either change our mindset or change what we don’t like. We need to get in the habit of assessing ourselves and making efforts to improve our own lives.

Solitude helps you recognize that there is a you before, a you during, and a you after every relationship, forging your own way even when you have company and love.

We love others in response to the way we’ve been loved by others.

Being attracted to our partners for what they have or what they’ve achieved is not a bad place to start, but it’s not a good place to end. Abilities and achievements don’t matter so much as qualities and actions.

How you handle your differences is more important than finding your similarities.

Your partner is like a mirror held in front of you.

Our goal is simply to help them get to the next step in their journey, not the next step in our vision of what their journey should be.

Dreams don’t have to be big; they just have to be yours.

We may feel empty, lost, broken, and hurt, but the soul is unbreakable.

“If you want happiness for an hour, take a nap. If you want happiness for a day, go fishing. If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime, help someone else.”

Try to love someone for the spark in them, not what surrounds them.