The ways of love are strange and hard: the love you want is always barred; the love you have you want to change. The ways of love are hard and strange
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Love is paradoxical; desired love is denied while existing love is changed.
- In plain terms
- Love is hard because you want what you can't have.
- What can you take from it?
- Accepting love requires understanding its contradictions.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- Why is love hard?
- Do you change love or accept it?
Another view
It may encourage resignation.
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