You love someone knowing you may not be loved…

You love someone knowing you may not be loved in return, but you do it anyway. You trust someone even though you realize you might get hurt or screwed over. That's because to act unconditionally requires some degree of faith-faith that it's the right thing to do even if it results in more pain, even if it doesn't work out for you or the other person.

— from The Flight Plan (Purpose/Wisdom/Risk) · Everything is Fcked: A Book About Hope by Mark Manson*

In the book

The largest risk of all is one we rarely even name as risk: to love. You love another person knowing full well you may not be loved in return, and you do it anyway — and that ordinary courage is the only road to the things that finally make a life worth flying. Adversity carries its own hidden gift here: you cannot control what the sky does to you, only how you respond, and it is precisely there, in the response, that wisdom is forged. — The Flight Plan (Purpose/Wisdom/Risk)

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