The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost. G.K. Chesterton
“The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.” G.K. Chesterton
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There are two damaging mistakes that people sometimes make.
First, they do not let love into their lives. Sad, but true.
Or second, they take for granted the loves they do have in their lives. They neglect to appreciate the essential and life enhancing value that their love has for them. What they need is the wisdom to ask themselves what their life would be like if these loves were suddenly lost.
The way to love anything is first, to feel it, and second, to never stop appreciating it.
“Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.” George Eliot
“Absence lessens ordinary passions and augments great ones, just as the wind blows out a candle and makes a fire blaze.” Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Getting Personal
Think of someone or something that you love, and then imagine that this person or object of your love was suddenly lost. What is the effect on you of this exercise of imagination?
