A whole lot of love flowing your way!
You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal. E.M. Forrester , A Room With A View
There is no safe investment. To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket — safe, dark, motionless, airless – it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. The alternative to tragedy, or at least to the risk of tragedy, is damnation. The only place outside Heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers and perturbations of love is Hell. C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
Nothing is mysterious, no human relation. Except love. Susan Sontag, As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness. Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness
The more one judges, the less one loves. Honore de Balzac, Physiologie Du Marriage
A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved. Kurt Vonnegut, The Sirens of Time
#PeaceHugs, Jone
Historically, leadership’s purpose, especially public leadership, had a lot to do with higher order love:
service to advance greater societal good for love of country and love for people – especially the vulnerable and voiceless – to create a humane world.
In 2010, the Fetzer Institute benchmarked American’s attitudes on love. In its Survey of Love and Forgiveness in American Society, Americans were asked about “meaningful love” that was expressed in a manner that sounds a lot like a leadership job description:
being compassionate, helping others, sacrifices, acts of kindness, anticipating needs, respect, spending time, and community involvement
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An overwhelming 95% of Americans responded that more meaningful love is needed in the world
