#conditional

The thing about science fiction is that it's totally wide open. But it's wide open in a conditional way. ↗

— Octavia Butler

#conditional #fiction #open #science #science fiction

Like many men, I am not ashamed to admit that my principal joys are domestic. I love cooking, and I love looking after my children. Indeed, the times that I have with them are the only ones when I feel unconditionally happy. ↗

— Louis de Bernieres

#after #am #ashamed #children #cooking

Mom was the one who taught me unconditional love. With Dad, I'd always felt there was something to live up to - expectations. But in the last year, we had a wonderful relationship. ↗

— Greg Louganis

#conditional love #dad #expectations #felt #had

I've covered a lot of ground geographically and emotionally and for years I lost my connection with my family. But the best comfort you can have, whether you are on the phone or sitting there in the living room with them, is with your parents, and to me family has always meant protection. When you smile you get a smile back, unconditionally. ↗

— Brigitte Nielsen

#back #best #comfort #connection #covered

My mom and dad gave their kids the greatest gift of all - the gift of unconditional love. They cared deeply about who we would be, and much less about what we would do. ↗

— Mitt Romney

#cared #conditional love #dad #deeply #gave

If you make the unconditional commitment to reach your most important goals, if the strength of your decision is sufficient, you will find the way and the power to achieve your goals. ↗

— Robert Conklin

#commitment #decision #find #goals #important

She is mine.' Edward’s low voice was suddenly dark, not as composed as before. 'I didn’t say I would fight fair. ↗

— Stephenie Meyer

#unconditional-love #love

Unconditional love is not affirming another in every decision they make especially when those choices are unhealthy. Unconditional love will risk offending in the name of genuine concern. It will risk relationship for the ultimate well-being of the other. To indiscriminately affirm the unhealthy choices of others is not love at all but perhaps the worst kind of fraud. ↗

— Michael M. Rose

#love #unconditional-love #love

If I were asked to define Motherhood. I would have defined it as Love in its purest form. Unconditional Love. ~~ Revathi Sankaran ↗

— Revathi Sankaran

#mother #motherhood #unconditional-love #love

It was strange that in some sort of Jeffrey Dahmer meets Ghandi way I was able to love myself for hating myself. It seemed like a warped sense of love. But it was love without conditions. ↗

— The Hippie

#cutting #ghandi #love #snowflake-obsidian #unconditional