One rarely falls in love without being as much attracted to what is interestingly wrong with someone as what is objectively healthy.

Alain De Botton
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We all want to be loved for who we are, not because we pretend to be someone else. We all want to find our soulmate. The one person who can bring out the best in us and give us the kind of happiness that we were looking for. So often, however, we fall in love with a person - a person that is objectively healthy - only to later discover that what they have going for them is very little indeed.

They may have a great job or a nice house or a nice car or lots of friends or a lot of money. What they don’t have is an adventurous spirit, a sense of humor, or a willingness to try new things. In other words, what they don’t have is what makes us unique and beautiful.

It is often when we fall in love with someone with no flaws at all that we realize how beautiful it is to be uniquely ourselves.

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