How can love be worthy of its name if one selects solely the pretty things and leaves out the hardships? It is easy to enjoy the good and dislike the bad. Anybody can do that. The real challenge is to love the good and the bad together, not because you need to take the rough with the smooth but because you need to go beyond such descriptions and accept love in its entirety. Elif Shafak
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Saying you love is easy, but loving someone is not as easy as you think. For instance, I love chocolate ice cream and I watch a lot of TV. But, I don’t even know which is a better example. I could say I love watching a lot of TV because it makes me feel good about myself, while saying that I love chocolate ice cream makes me feel bad about myself because I’m fat.

So what does love really mean? My point here is that if you are in love, then you should be able to accept all the good and bad things that come to your mind when you are in love. Just like how people are supposed to go through the bad times with their love because they are in love with their significant other.

Source: The Forty Rules Of Love

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