The Victor

“An alive and loving person simply loves. Love is a natural function. So the second thing to remember is, don’t ask for perfection; otherwise you will not find any love flowing in you. On the contrary, you will become unloving. People who demand perfection are very unloving people, neurotic. Even if they can find a lover they demand perfection, and the love is destroyed because of that demand. Once a man loves a woman or a woman loves a man, demands immediately enter. The woman starts demanding that the man should be perfect, just because he loves her. As if he has committed a sin! Now he has to be perfect, now he has to drop all his limitations—suddenly, just because of this woman? Now he cannot be human? Either he has to become superhuman or he has to become phony, false, a cheat. Naturally, to become superhuman is very difficult, so people become cheats. They start pretending and acting and playing games. In the name of love people are just playing games. So the second thing to remember is never to demand perfection. You have no right to demand anything from anybody. If somebody loves you, be thankful, but don’t demand anything—because the other has no obligation to love you. If somebody loves, it is a miracle. Be thrilled by the miracle.”
― Osho, Being in Love: How to Love with Awareness and Relate Without Fear

“A happy fly
If I live
Or if I die”
― William Blake, Songs of Innocence and of Experience

“Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.” —Norman Cousins”
― Robin S. Sharma, The Saint, the Surfer, and the CEO: A Remarkable Story About Living Your Heart's Desires

“Love the person, but give the person total freedom. Love the person, but from the very beginning make it clear that you are not selling your freedom.”
― Osho, Being in Love: How to Love with Awareness and Relate Without Fear