Not only are selves conditional but they die. Each day, we wake slightly altered, and the person we were yesterday is dead. So why, one could say, be afraid of death, when death comes all the time?
~ John Updike
Your love is as stable as you are: It's not about how good a person makes you feel, but rather what good you can do for them.
~ Criss Jami
When you are a grown up your brothers become your neighbors and your unconditional brotherhood become your conditional neighborhood.
~ Amit Kalantri
We add caveats to prayers like seasoning to bad sauce. We hope for something else or something more, but we forget. Sometimes life isn’t the pleasure of the taste, rather the nutrition we get from it.
~ Shannon L. Alder
The root systems of these lies we tell ourselves tend to grow together. It’s all connected with the belief human love is conditional. But human love isn’t conditional. No love is conditional. If love is conditional, it’s just some sort of manipulation masquerading as love.
~ Donald Miller
How did you deal with it? How do you stop loving someone?”“The Creator didn’t make love conditional,” Jona said. “Love is what makes us human. What separates us from the corelings. There is value in it, even when it is not requited.
~ Peter V. Brett
Whatever else you set out to do, begin by getting to know God and seeking His will in your life. If you do that, you will find Him. He will lead you. He will bless you. What a wonderful promise! But it is conditional. If you turn your back on the Lord, He will cast you off forever.
~ James C. Dobson
Life has trained many of us to think of love as temporary and conditional.
~ Craig Groeschel
