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Wise Sayings...or Not
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"To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give it to no one, not even an animal." -- C.S.Lewis
May be true, but it's awfully depressing.
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Well — -- C.S.Lewis
Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in their shoes, that way you’ll be a mile from them and you’ll have their shoes.—Jack Handey
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Remember your first experience at "puppy love" in school? You were head over heels in love. She captured your every thought and you'd do anything just for a moment of her time, a chance to be with her. You were vulnerable. And when the relationship fell apart, you (or her) was absolutely crushed.
You don't have to take the risk of opening yourself up to others and having your heart broken. All you have to do is close yourself off from others. We call it "Seattle nice" around here. It's all surface relationships. We smile and say "Hi, how are you?"...but we really don't want to know how you are. To get that, you need to build walls around you.
But if you open the gates to those walls ...make yourself vulnerable...you have the opportunity to have deep emotionally satisfying relationships.
The greatest joys in life come with the greatest risks. (That's probably a "wise saying" that I read somewhere.)
Chris
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt… Abraham Lincoln
It is much the same as with having a dog or other pet - In my case to love a dog means that you will have to face at some point losing them. I hear so many people that say never again will they have another because losing them is too difficult. I say having a relationship with my dog is so full of love and joy that it outweighs the loss. The simple joy of that relationship brings me so much happiness that I cannot even think about living without my special friend. Do I miss the ones I lost - absolutely - I remember them with such good memories. The dogs I have now just bring so much to my life.Remember your first experience at "puppy love" in school? You were head over heels in love. She captured your every thought and you'd do anything just for a moment of her time, a chance to be with her. You were vulnerable. And when the relationship fell apart, you (or her) was absolutely crushed.
You don't have to take the risk of opening yourself up to others and having your heart broken. All you have to do is close yourself off from others. We call it "Seattle nice" around here. It's all surface relationships. We smile and say "Hi, how are you?"...but we really don't want to know how you are. To get that, you need to build walls around you.
But if you open the gates to those walls ...make yourself vulnerable...you have the opportunity to have deep emotionally satisfying relationships.
The greatest joys in life come with the greatest risks. (That's probably a "wise saying" that I read somewhere.)
Chris
Dan
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Dogs and pets are a great example. Dogs give you all that love and hold nothing back. You'd have to be dead inside not to love in return. But then there's the end of that. We had Oscar for 18 years. Fantastic memories. Except for the last day.
I wouldn't trade those 18 years though to have been "safe". Gotta quit. I'm getting choked up.
Chris
I wouldn't trade those 18 years though to have been "safe". Gotta quit. I'm getting choked up.
Chris
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