Beautiful words from an essay by Harper Lee:
…all of us at one time or another–be it for an instant or for our lives–have departed from ourselves: we have loved something or someone. Love, then, is a paradox: to have it, we must give it. Love is not an intransitive thing–love is a direct action of mind and body.
This reminds me of what Gila Manolson wrote: love is a behavior. Or what Maria von Trapp sings to Liesl: “Love isn’t love ’til you give it away.”
Wishing you a beautiful, loving day!
