We think our job as humans is to avoid pain, our job as parents is to protect our children from pain, and our job as friends is to fix each other's pain. Maybe that's why we all feel like failures so often - because we all have the wrong job description for love. Glennon Doyle Melton
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We think our job as humans is to avoid pain, our job as parents is to protect our children from pain, and our job as friends is to fix each other's pain. Maybe that's why we all feel like failures so often - because we all have the wrong job description for love. The highest form of love is not having another person's needs come before your own. It's looking out for each other even when it means putting your needs on the back burner.

It's having the ability to put someone else before yourself, even if that means losing yourself. When you truly know that someone else's happiness is more important than your own, you are truly living the best life possible. By helping others, you are also helping yourself.

When you help others, they will often help you too - without needing your help. The idea of loving someone by helping him or her can be quite scary at first glance. However, it is an idea that many people struggle with because they are too afraid to put themselves last in order to ensure the happiness of another person.

Source: Love Warrior

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