{"quotes":[{"text":"Real love is always chaotic. You lose control; you lose perspective. You lose the ability to protect yourself. The greater the love, the greater the chaos. It’s a given and that’s the secret.","author":"Jonathan Carroll","tags":["chaos","real-love"],"id":4687,"author_id":"Jonathan+Carroll"},{"text":"And once Ive learnt to hold my own heart, I can conquer the feeling of yours.","author":"Nikki Rowe","tags":["love","real-love","true-love"],"id":6897,"author_id":"Nikki+Rowe"},{"text":"Real love feels less like a throbbing, pulsing animal begging for its freedom and beating against the inside of my chest and more like, 'Hey, that place you like had fish tacos today and I got you some while I was out', as it sets a bag spotted with grease on the dining room table. It's not a game you don't understand the rules of, or a test you never got the materials to study for. It never leaves you wondering who could possibly be texting at 3 am. Or what you could possibly do to make it come home and stay there. It's fucking boring, dude. I don't walk around mired in uneasiness, waiting for the other shoe to drop. No parsing through spun tales about why it took her so long to come back from the store. No checking her emails or calling her job to make sure she's actually there. No sitting in my car outside her house at dawn, to make sure she's alone when she leaves. This feels safe, and steadfast, and predictable. And secure. It's boring as shit. And it's easily the best thing I've ever felt.","author":"Samantha Irby","tags":["happiness","love","love-is-boring","real-love","security"],"id":8764,"author_id":"Samantha+Irby"},{"text":"Taking responsibility for oneself is by definition an act of kindness.","author":"Sharon Salzberg","tags":["kindness","kindness","love","love","personal-growth","personal-responsibility","real-love","responsibility"],"id":11360,"author_id":"Sharon+Salzberg"},{"text":"As we explore new ways of loving and being loved by others, we need to equip ourselves with open, pliant minds; we need to be willing to investigate, experiment, and evaluate as we approach a topic we thought we knew so much about.","author":"Sharon Salzberg","tags":["love","love","real-love","real-love"],"id":14035,"author_id":"Sharon+Salzberg"},{"text":"As we explore new ways of loving and being loved by others, we need to equip ourselves with open, pliant minds; we need to be willing to investigate, experiment, and evaluate as we approach a topic we thought we knew so much about.","author":"Sharon Salzberg","tags":["love","love","real-love","real-love"],"id":14035,"author_id":"Sharon+Salzberg"},{"text":"I am not a day dreamer, I am a believer, that after every painful love I have gone through, it is just an experience to crack open the deepest parts of my core and allow to me to delve into a passion so rare, that I will find a love that was almost, never meant to be.","author":"Nikki Rowe","tags":["deep-love","destiny","fate","hope","love","love","meant-to-be","passion","rare-love","real-love","true-love","wisdom","wise-words","words"],"id":18504,"author_id":"Nikki+Rowe"},{"text":"So often, fear keeps us from being able to say yes to love—perhaps our greatest challenge as human beings.","author":"Sharon Salzberg","tags":["challenges","love","meditation","real-love","real-love"],"id":18623,"author_id":"Sharon+Salzberg"},{"text":"So often, fear keeps us from being able to say yes to love—perhaps our greatest challenge as human beings.","author":"Sharon Salzberg","tags":["challenges","love","meditation","real-love","real-love"],"id":18623,"author_id":"Sharon+Salzberg"},{"text":"Keeping secrets is a consequential act for all involved.","author":"Sharon Salzberg","tags":["meditation","mindfulness","real-love","real-love","secrets"],"id":18961,"author_id":"Sharon+Salzberg"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":344,"pages":35,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}