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We’re all seeking that special person who is right for us. But if you’ve been through enough relationships, you begin to suspect there’s no right person, just different flavors of wrong. Why is this? Because you yourself are wrong in some way, and you seek out partners who are wrong in some complementary way. But it takes a lot of living to grow fully into your own wrongness. And it isn’t until you finally run up against your deepest demons, your unsolvable problems–the ones that make you truly who you are–that we’re ready to find a lifelong mate. Only then do you finally know what you’re looking for. You’re looking for the wrong person. But not just any wrong person: it's got to be the right wrong person–someone you lovingly gaze upon and think, “This is the problem I want to have.” I will find that special person who is wrong for me in just the right way.Andrew Boyd
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He's not your prince charming if he doesn't make sure you know that you're his princess.Demi Lovato
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It's a strange thing to discover and to believe that you are loved when you know that there is nothing in you for anybody but a parent or a God to love.Graham Greene
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Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It is the one thing we are interested in here.Leo Tolstoy
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To be deeply loved, means a willingness to cut yourself wide open, exposing your vulnerabilities... hopes, hurts, fears and flaws. Hiding behind the highlight reel of who you are, is the real you and that person is just as worthy of love. There is nothing more terrifying or fulfilling, than complete love, it's worth the risk... reach for it.Jaeda DeWalt
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The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves–say rather, loved in spite of ourselves.Victor Hugo
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Relationships dont always make sense. Especially from the outsideSarah Dessen
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At the core of love is validation. It is what gives love power. For when love is given away, validation seeps in and expands in the heart of the recipient, filling up every empty, dark corner. It is a wonderful, light, consuming feeling we long for, and once found, we hope–even expect–it will forever remain. But there are times when that most precious love is revoked, and a hard scab forms over the empty hole. Though this scab is both healing and protective, it is the reason why validation from future love may not seep in so easily, no matter how wanting the heart.Richelle E. Goodrich
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Being loved is the only thing that is admirable by any stretch of the imagination.AuliqIce
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When you are loved, you can do anything in creation. When you are loved, there's no need at all to understand what's happening, because everything happens within you.Paulo Coelho
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Behind every angry soul is a wounded child that just wanted you to love them for who they are.Shannon L. Alder
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Many people think that love represents chains, bondage, the opposite of freedom. But people who believe such things are simple-minded creatures who have been lied to, and who easily accept the general trend of the lie. It is in fact love that is the only thing powerful enough to set one free from even the most deeply-embedded and thoroughly-wound chains of the soul, the mind, and the body. The fact is that we are born into chains and born into bondages; these things are put upon us by fear, pain and doubt. When you are thoroughly loved by someone in mind and in heart, this has the power to set you so free, more free than you have ever been before. And that is because freedom is not the equivalent of detachment. Freedom is the equivalent of that which sets you free. And when someone loves you the way that only they can, that is what sets you free.C. Joybell C.
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Being loved is the problem, because love is a demand - when you're loved, someone wants more of you.Stephen Grosz
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Loving is giving and being loved is receiving. Loving should not depend on being loved, but to all intents andpurposes, your commitment in a relationship is grossly expressed by how much of yourself you share with your partner.Olaotan Fawehinmi
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Many times in the Old Testament, God refers to human beings as His beloved. But when God called Jesus His beloved, Jesus did something truly remarkable: He believed Him. And He lived every moment of His life fully convinced of His identity.Jonathan Martin
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Now do you understand why it's so important for you to grasp your belovedness? God won't change the world through angels or through ideas; He will change the world through His sons and daughters. If you don't know who you are, if you don’t know your true identity, you won't touch others on His behalf.Jonathan Martin
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The man that is meant to love you will have a million questions about you, but none will ever ask your value.Shannon L. Alder
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When our hearts, minds, and souls are deep within the reality of living loved, we discover that most of those "rules" from Sunday school are simply our new characteristics and our family traits. They are the fruit born of a meaningful, life-changing relationship–they are the flowers of life in the Vine.Sarah Bessey
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You will never be lost to me, Selinne.Emm Cole
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What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!Victor Hugo
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If dual torment is to be my one condition, both of loving and being loved I would quit.Unknown
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Both the giving and receiving of love is encoded within our deepest physiology and is all-important. This must not be taken for granted. Its expressions in our life — or lack and denial thereof — contribute substantially to our ultimate personal success, satisfaction, and quality of life.Connie Kerbs
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Unfortunately, loving someone doesn't obligate them to love you backJ. Matthew Nespoli