“Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable; it keeps no record of wrongs; it does not rejoice in wrongdoing but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.” (1 Corinthians 13: 4-7)
“To love is to will the good of the other as other.” -Saint Thomas Aquinas
“Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.” -Gustave Flaubert
“You know when you’re walking in the woods on a dark night…and you see a light shining far off in the distance…and you think to yourself: even though I’m tired and it’s dark and the branches are scratching my face…everything is gonna be okay…because I have that light? And I’ll get there eventually? Well, I work–you know this–I work harder than anyone else in this county. I mean, I’m beaten down, Sonya, I suffer unbearably…but I have no light in the distance. I can’t see anything up ahead.” -Astrov to Sonya in Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov (adaptation by Annie Baker)
True love is reckless love.
It’s not “What’s in it for me?”. It’s “What’s in it for THEM?”
True love is not transactional. Not rational. Not logical. It’s out of line with most worldly thinking.
It requires putting yourself wholly out there. Going out on the ledge. Walking blindly through the forest.
That’s reckless.
But when it comes to love and art, it’s the only way to be.
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