SUMAYA’s Reviews > All About Love: New Visions > Status Update

“love was the good feeling you got when family treated you like you mattered and you treated them like they mattered. Love was always and only about good feeling.”

“So many of us long for love but lack the courage to take risks. Even though we are obsessed with the idea of love,”

“It took me a long time to recognize that while I wanted to know love, I was afraid to be truly intimate. Many of us choose relationships of affection and care that will never become loving because they feel safer. The demands are not as intense as loving requires. The risk is not as great.”

“I wanted to know love but I was afraid to surrender and trust another person. I was afraid to be intimate.”

“Embracing a definition of love that was clear was the first step in the process,”

“To truly love we must learn to mix various ingredients-care, affection, recognition, respect, commitment, and trust, as well as honest and open communication.”

"the will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth."

“Men often write about love through fantasy, through what they imagine is possible rather than what they concretely know.”

“ending patriarchy is one step in the direction of love.”

“my first thought as I waited for test results was that I was not ready to die because I had not yet found the love my heart had been seeking.”