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doing what is for their good

Loving people means doing what is for their good, not necessarily yours. Love is the greatest thing in the world. It has the power to change lives, and it defeats the devil in his works on the earth. Nothing gives people more joy than feeling loved. We can tell someone we love them, and it is meani…

—p.12 Loving People Who Are Hard to Love: Transforming Your World by Learning to Love Unconditionally The Greatest Thing in All the World (3) by Joyce Meyer
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no matter how they have treated us

Knowing what love is certainly helps us learn to walk in love, but we are also wise to understand what love is not. Many people become confused about love because people tell them they love them and then act in ways totally inconsistent with real love. Love is not talk or theory, and it is not mere…

—p.8 The Greatest Thing in All the World (3) by Joyce Meyer
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pursued a kind of abstract reciprocation

It wasn’t until recently that I paid attention to a line in Blue ’s first song that goes, ‘I love you when I forget about me.’ In the last few years, I’ve come to realise that in the romantic loving I’ve done, I’ve often obliterated my sense of self: I’ve not located my needs, let alone asked for t…

—p.214 Arrangements in Blue: Notes on Loving and Living Alone by Amy Key
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a canyon of want that is impossible to fill

[...] That’s the risk of abundance. It can be easy to find it lacking. A birthday party where you’re sore someone didn’t come rather than delighting in all who did. A canyon of want that is impossible to fill.

—p.214 by Amy Key
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I need to cross a threshold

I need to cross a threshold – from the place I am in now, where I can still feel confused, ashamed, embarrassed, angry even, that romantic love is not part of my life, to a place where I care less about what other people might think about me and don’t punish myself when I do care, judge myself less…

—p.213 by Amy Key