apparently I was trying to be thoughtful...

[wallcrallr]

Life must be embraced as though it is someone you love. You don’t accept it because it’s perfect. It never can be. If it were perfect you’d suspect that something were seriously wrong with it beneath the surface. You would suspect something was just waiting to rot it out from the inside and destroy it completely. But life, like a lover, is full of

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[tibbsy]

Love is not blind; that is the last thing that it is. Love is bound; and the more it is bound the less it is blind.

Men did not love Rome because she was great. She was great because they had loved her.

Both quotes from G.K. Chesterton's Orthodoxy chapter 5.