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Accepting Love



Most of us are better at giving love than accepting it. When fear of hurt or rejection, internalized self-criticism, and other traumas prevent us from feeling worthy of love, we may shut out those who wish to support and connect with us. Close relationships are formed through reciprocity of openness and vulnerability, and being unable to take compliments and other offerings of affection can be read as a sign of distrust or distance. A variety of methods can encourage self-discovery and self-care to make us more willing and able to be vulnerable to those we care about. Learning to accept love can open the door to true intimacy and a deeply connected relationship.

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FindCenterIf we have a friend, or small group of friends, or family who embraces our imperfections, vulnerabilities, and power, and fills us with a sense of belonging, we are incredibly lucky.

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Brené Brown
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FindCenterWe do not need to go out and find love; rather, we need to be still and let love discover us.

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John O’Donohue
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FindCenterLove comforteth like sunshine after rain.

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William Shakespeare
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FindCenterThe most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in. Let it come in. We think we don’t deserve love, we think if we let it in we’ll become too soft. But a wise man named Levin said it right. He said, ‘Love is the only rational act.’

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Mitch Albom
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FindCenterIn order not to suffer, you had to renounce love. It was like putting out your own eyes not to see the bad things in life.

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Paulo Coelho
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FindCenterIn the end, though, maybe we must all give up trying to pay back the people in this world who sustain our lives. In the end, maybe it’s wiser to surrender before the miraculous scope of human generosity and to just keep saying thank you, forever and sincerely, for as long as we have voices.

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Elizabeth Gilbert
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FindCenterUsually adult males who are unable to make emotional connections with the women they choose to be intimate with are frozen in time, unable to allow themselves to love for fear that the loved one will abandon them.

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bell hooks
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FindCenterThe course of true love never did run smooth.

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William Shakespeare
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FindCenterTo be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow—this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.

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Elizabeth Gilbert
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