Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood. Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain. In the face of pain there are no heroes. If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love. ~ 1984 (George Orwell)
A variant of the same philosophy that I read a long long time ago -
ReplyDelete'A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault.'
~ John Henry Newman