It's true. The most self-assured, confident person, if they fall really in love, become defenseless! They will often put up with all kinds of crap from the person they love because they simply cannot bear to be without him or her! That happened to me back in the days! After that I swore, never again! That's a path of diminishing returns. And you lose their respect and they end up dumping you anyway! At least one should keep your self-respect.
The actress Ava Gardner brought Frank Sinatra to his knees. He followed her all around Europe. That's an example of the sort of thing I mean. Sinatra could have had any woman he wanted, except the one he really wanted!
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When you are flourishing, prospering, getting all that desired success and happiness, being all so confident, "proud" and great, but suddenly you fall in love with someone that doesn't/cannot love you back, betrays you or dies/is hurt badly and it all fades into nothing.
That is the worst of them all pains. It can grind into dust even the strongest of foundations a person can establish during their life.
100% agree. Once you let someone in to the point you love them they can easily make the most confident person feel insecure and doubt themselves.
Everyone has week points, but some people aren't as fragile as others. It only takes people they value to break them down.
I think it’s true. I see it as even someone with a hard exterior who doesn’t want to let others in, that exterior can be broken with love.
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I actually think it is quite the contrary: when someone is loved, the pride s/he feels is even greater because s/he feels good.
To make that setting accurate, I would change it to "Even the proudest spirit can be broken when there is no love". No matter how strong or unbreakable you think you are, if there is no love in your life (essentially, no reason to live), then you will eventually break.If I lose someone truly really love just for the sake of pride, I'd be jumping to my death when I look back in my past once I grow older. So, yes I would be willing to give up all pride just for the sake of not wanting to lose someone I truly really love because that someone is my life and my motivation to breathe and stay consistent and strong no matter what happens :)
This is something I actually said to my wife early on in our marriage when I realized how awesome she was and how she loved me through some painful things that I had to confront.
"... you assaulted me with love, you laid siege to my heart with kindness... and destroyed the man I was so you could build me up again, stronger and better..."I'd say it's teue
On a side note, you have a pink anon that stalks you and hates on you for some reason.Good Love should be something that makes the sum greater than the parts. Nobody should be broken by love, love should build you up and if the relationship you are in does not then you are in a bad relationship and should leave it.
I think it’s true. I also think that a person who is loved can accomplished great things.
I really like Neil Gaiman but never read that book.
I think it is sort of heartbreaking in that love can be used to break somebody's spirit. It is true I think.It is not always true. There are people who are unable to feel love.
Why would you want to break someone's spirit and personal pride?
Not convinced and I don't believe in such a quote. Yes everyone deserves to be loved but not everyone is meant to be in love or in any exclusive relationship.
The choice of the work, “broken” is off, but I get what it is saying. Just that even the most stoic can be “gentled” by “love”. How true this is, is arguable.
"breaking a 'spirit'" WHY? Who does that? It sounds WRONG!!
I see no reason to break a spirit.
My affections are ''selective''.I think this quote means even proud people can be humbled and show humility by someone who loves, teaches and inspires them. And
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I think it's idiotic. Love shouldn't break one's spirit.
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What is that even supposed to mean?
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