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11-01-2010, 05:33 AM
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Location: Vermont
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Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
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11-01-2010, 07:17 AM
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Location: Orlando, Florida
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Love this proverb!! It should be the 'saying of mothers' everywhere. It would also hold a few marriages together as well.
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11-01-2010, 08:26 AM
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It goes with "I'm only as happy as my least happy child."
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11-01-2010, 09:29 AM
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Location: Out there somewhere...a traveling man.
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Originally Posted by MistyVT
Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
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So very true. Love this one...  |
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11-01-2010, 10:05 AM
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Location: Neither here nor there
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Absolutely!!!! Good proverb, Misty. |
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11-01-2010, 11:31 AM
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Originally Posted by MistyVT
Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
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This proverb puts forth the two suppositions. First, love equals happiness. Second, love is only demonstrated when one's happiness is predicated upon another's. In either case the it is false. Love doesn't equal happiness, if it did people in love would never be unhappy and the divorce rate would not be so high  . Furthermore, you can love someone who is unhappy and still be happy yourself. Anyone parenting teenagers?  They are often unhappy, but a parent loves them anyway while managing to be happy. Love is superior to happiness in every way; yet, happiness makes loving easier even though it is an inconstant emotional state. One maybe happy one moment and depressed the next, but LOVE is rock steady baby. "Love knows no burden and burdens no man." Making another person's happiness essential to your own is not love. It sounds more like co-dependence. Love is more powerful than that.  |
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11-01-2010, 01:04 PM
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Location: South Central Texas
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True, but sometimes it seems they aren't happy unless I'm not!  |
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11-01-2010, 01:36 PM
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Location: NW Indiana
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An interesting one today. I don't quite agree with it. Sometimes it is simply impossible to make a loved one happy. That does preclude us being happy in our own lives.
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11-01-2010, 02:20 PM
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Location: Mid-Atlantic
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Originally Posted by PJ8
An interesting one today. I don't quite agree with it. Sometimes it is simply impossible to make a loved one happy. That does preclude us being happy in our own lives.
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Sometimes it is impossible to make a loved one happy. I can't say that I am "happy" when a loved one is going through a difficult time. |
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11-01-2010, 03:55 PM
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Location: Abilene, Texas
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Originally Posted by satx56
True, but sometimes it seems they aren't happy unless I'm not! |
Yeah, I've been in that situation before as well!...lol
I want all my loved ones to be happy, however, I try not to make my own personal happiness totally contingent on the happiness of others. |
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