How to Love Better Quotes

“My actions are my only true belongings. I cannot escape the consequences of my actions. My actions are the ground on which I stand. —Thich Nhat Hanh’s translation of the Anguttara Nikaya 5.57”
― Yung Pueblo, How to Love Better: The Path to Deeper Connection Through Growth, Kindness, and Compassion

“Love is soft and nourishing, but it is also hard and revealing. It will show you the sides of yourself that you need to work on.”
― Yung Pueblo, How to Love Better: The Path to Deeper Connection Through Growth, Kindness, and Compassion

“Love and growth need to go hand in hand for harmony to be a real possibility in a partnership.”
― Yung Pueblo, How to Love Better: The Path to Deeper Connection Through Growth, Kindness, and Compassion

“Love is the primary domain of a mind that has freed itself from suffering. It is the home of sages who have witnessed ultimate truth. In this sense, love and freedom are synonymous. This apex of love is only possible when the mind has risen above the attachments of ego and finally understood that true peace is found in letting go.”
― Yung Pueblo, How to Love Better: The Path to Deeper Connection Through Growth, Kindness, and Compassion

“Slowing down is how you ground yourself. It is how you reconnect with your peace and intuition. Slowing down helps you understand yourself and other people. Slowing down opens the door to deeper learning. It is how you reaffirm the way you want to show up in the world. Slowing down is necessary if you want to live intentionally. It is the only way you can make sure that you are moving in the right direction.”
― Yung Pueblo, How to Love Better: The Path to Deeper Connection Through Growth, Kindness, and Compassion

“The magic happens when two people who are in the process of, or at the very least are open to, developing their own inner thriving come together as a couple and realize that the success of their relationship is dependent on the success of their personal development.”
― Yung Pueblo, How to Love Better: The Path to Deeper Connection Through Growth, Kindness, and Compassion

“If there is intentional development of self-awareness, over time it will become easier to see ourselves and examine where our true motivations are coming from. Am I speaking and acting from a place of attachment or a place of love?”
― Yung Pueblo, How to Love Better: The Path to Deeper Connection Through Growth, Kindness, and Compassion

“give those you are interacting with more of your genuine attention opens the possibility for more joy to arise within you. Both peace and joy and their counterparts”
― Yung Pueblo, How to Love Better: The Path to Deeper Connection Through Growth, Kindness, and Compassion

“love is more than a feeling; it’s a practice that needs intention”
― Yung Pueblo, How To Love Better: The Path to Deeper Connection Through Growth, Kindness and Compassion

“Too much compassion toward yourself can make you selfish, and too much for your partner can make you set aside your personal needs and wants in a relationship and lead to burnout.”
― Yung Pueblo, How to Love Better: The Path to Deeper Connection Through Growth, Kindness, and Compassion

“Instead of looking for someone who is “perfect,” look for someone who is not scared of growing.”
― Yung Pueblo, How to Love Better: The Path to Deeper Connection Through Growth, Kindness, and Compassion

“Love has the shape
and feel of water.

It is simultaneously
flexible and powerful.

It can adapt and roar;
it can also be silently nourishing.”
― Yung Pueblo, How to Love Better: The Path to Deeper Connection Through Growth, Kindness, and Compassion

“Love has the shape and feel of water. It is simultaneously flexible and powerful. It can adapt and roar; it can also be silently nourishing.”
― Yung Pueblo, How to Love Better: The Path to Deeper Connection Through Growth, Kindness, and Compassion

“Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. Fill each other’s cup but drink not from one cup. Give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf. Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone, Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music. ………………………………………. And stand together yet not too near together: For the pillars of the temple stand apart, And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other’s shadow.”
― Yung Pueblo, How to Love Better: The Path to Deeper Connection Through Growth, Kindness, and Compassion

“have trouble loving others as they are, rather than as we want them to be, and we may withhold our love and approval if they don’t meet our expectations. This type of love is conditional rather than unconditional. I believe we should live our lives first and foremost for ourselves and follow the path we feel is right while also doing our best to skillfully and gently handle these core relationships in our lives.”
― Yung Pueblo, How to Love Better: The Path to Deeper Connection Through Growth, Kindness, and Compassion

“Going with the flow does not mean you sit back passively and expect everything to work out. Going with the flow means you don’t cause yourself stress by fighting changes that are out of your control.”
― Yung Pueblo, How to Love Better: The Path to Deeper Connection Through Growth, Kindness, and Compassion