It's not that you should never love something so much that it can control you. It's that you need to love something that much so you can never be controlled. It's not a weakness. It's your best strength.
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Patrick Ness
No matter how much you love someone, you still want to have you own way.
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Chuck Palahniuk
The practice of love offers no place of safety. We risk loss, hurt, pain. We risk being acted upon by forces outside our control.
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Bell Hooks
Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.
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Ralph Ellison
You must learn to let go. Release the stress. You were never in control anyway.
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Steve Maraboli
More Quotes By Terrence Real
...changing one's own behavior is a much more promising strategy than insisting on change from the other.
Despite all of their flaws and difficulties, these men don't want to walk out on their own lives, leave their wives and children. They want to come home.
Women are unhappy in their marriages because they want men to be more related than most men know how to be. And men are unhappy in their marriages because their women seem so unhappy with them.
...strength is not the absence of vulnerability. Strength is knowing what your weaknesses are and working with them.
We are so busy attempting to manage the result that we fail simply to run the race.
