http://thoughtcatalog.com/2012/25-things-you-should-know-about-love
## It is possible to love someone who doesn’t love you back.
It’s not a full love, it doesn’t have a whole lot of depth, but it’s still
there.
##People always say that you have to love yourself before
anyone else can love you but that’s not really true. You can be loved even if
you hate yourself. It’s just not going to be healthy. It’s not going to be the best
kind of love.
##Falling in love is nature’s drug and you can OD on
it.
##Emotionally OD. Not, like, actual death. Ew.
##It’s so painful to have loved someone once and then never
again. Sometimes you’ll wish it never happened just so you didn’t know how good
it felt.
##Then you remember that quote “It’s better to have loved and
lost than to have ever loved at all” and you’re like, “okay, fine.”
##You will never love someone quite the same way you do the
first time.
##In most cases, this is a good thing. The first time is
fucking insane.
##It’s a beautiful moment when you realize you are someone
who’s worth loving.
##And it’s an even harder moment when you temporarily forget
it.
##Sex doesn’t always bring people closer. Sometimes it just
exposes the weaknesses in the relationship.
##That being said, a relationship can survive on good sex for
a disturbing amount of time.
##Someone you love will betray you. You can’t go through this
life without it.
##You can’t force yourself to love someone. If it’s not there,
it’s not going to happen. Ever.
##Everyone is an idiot when it comes to matters of the heart.
Love is the great equalizer. Whenever you feel intimidated by someone’s
coolness, just imagine them sobbing in their bedroom after someone broke their
heart. I guarantee it’s happened.
##Love doesn’t always feel like brain orgasms. Sometimes it
feels the best when it’s at its most subtle, like when it’s 3 p.m. on a Sunday
and you’re reading a book with your feet entangled with someone else’s on the
couch. You look around you for a second and realize that you’ve never felt
safer. Ironically, it’s the quieter moments that will leave the most indelible
mark.
##Everyone wants to
be loved. Everyone wants to rely on someone. For a lot of people, it’s
their Achilles heel. Love is the reason why they made most of their mistakes.
##At its best, love can feel better than heroin. At its worst,
it can feel like heroin withdrawal.
##I’ve never done heroin though so this is purely speculation.
##Finding love is the unconscious motivator for a lot of the
things we do. It’s why we work out, it’s why we go to a bar on a Saturday night
when we really don’t want to, it’s why we agree to meet strangers off the
internet.
##Don’t be embarrassed if you’ve never been in love before.
You have a ton of company.
##When you fall in love with someone, be prepared for the
possibility that you might hate them one day.
##You will always have that one
ex who will stick in your mind. They’ll feel like a perpetual dull ache in
your side.
##Love will make you into the best and worst version of
yourself, often in the same night.
##Love is the reason why we’re all here. Well, most of us
anyway. 
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