#9 - You Don’t Need to Be Loved to Matter: You Need to Love Like It Matters

31/08/2025 7 min Temporada 1 Episodio 9

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Episode Synopsis

Being loved feels good, but loving with your whole heart is everything. The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is just to love... even when it hurts, even if they don’t say it back, even when it breaks your heart.Being loved isn't enough. Loving transforms you. From Kierkegaard’s view of love as choice, to Nietzsche’s belief that love affirms life, to Simone de Beauvoir’s vision of love as freedom, love shapes identity, courage, and meaning.Love is risk. Love is surrender. Love is the act that defines who you are.(00:00) Lao Tzu Quote (00:28) Loving Someone Changes Everything (01:00) Being Loved vs. Loving: Active vs. Passive (01:31) First Crush in School as Real Love (02:31) Relationships That Stay with You (03:00) Kierkegaard: Love Is a Choice (03:20) Nietzsche: Love Affirms Life (04:01) Helen Fisher: Love Floods the Brain Like a Drug (04:43) The Terrible Truth About Love (05:45) Questions to Ask Yourself About Love (06:10) Love Only Requires One Person, One Direction (06:26) Being Loved Teaches Less Than Loving Someone (07:05) Love with Your Whole Heart or Not at All (07:33) Growth Equation Growth = knowing the risk, and still offering your heartBrick by brick, we’ll get there.-🔸 Build with me:Instagram: ⁠⁠bricktomarblepodcast⁠Website: ⁠bricktomarble.com⁠

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