#love well

[emotional-algebra]

People grow when they are loved well. If you want to help others heal, love them without an agenda.

Mike McHargue

[cliowo]

How to keep your heart safe:

Build walls, the tallest and strongest you can imagine. Fortify it with a moat of ravenous sharks, then go round its perimeter once, twice, thrice with rose bushes. The thorns are for the intruders, and the roses for you, because Aphrodite and heartbroken are not synonyms. Persuade colourful deadly snakes to move in, if you can. Fill the halls with the most unwelcoming items you can think of: booby traps, falling chandeliers, haunted bathrooms.

Watch as a single well-timed bomb tears down your fortress into shreds.

That is to say, you will fail.

That is to say, you can't.

[hongism]

remember to be kind today as well 💖

[chippythedog]

[theglenmonarch]

What thou lovest well remains,

the rest is dross

What thou lov’st well shall not be reft from thee

What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage

Whose world, or mine or theirs

or is it of none?

Ezra Pound, Canto LXXXI

[raewrites]

Practicing love is more critical to our relationships than professing it.

Brené Brown, Men, Women, & Worthiness

[lovesquotes333]

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

Virginia Woolf