“But the most exciting, challenging and significant relationship of all is the one you have with yourself. And if you can find someone to love the you you love, well, that’s just fabulous.”
— Carrie Bradshaw
“In love relationships…there is a fine line between pleasure and pain. In fact it’s a common belief that a relationship without pain is a relationship not worth having. To some…pain implies growth. But how do we know when the growing pains stop…and the ‘pain-pains’ take over? Are we masochists or optimists…if we continue to walk that fine line? When it comes to relationships…how do you know when enough is enough?” -Carrie Bradshaw
The capacity to be alone is the capacity to love. It may look paradoxical to you, but it is not. It is an existential truth: only those people who are capable of being alone are capable of love, of sharing, of going into the deepest core of the other person - without possessing the other, without becoming dependent on the other, without reducing the other to a thing, and without becoming addicted to the other. They allow the other absolute freedom, because they know that if the other leaves, they will be as happy as they are now. Their happiness cannot be taken by the other, because it is not given by the other.
(Source: satccaptures)
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