Response to prose.

The deeper your scars, the more room there is to fill them up with love. Don't hate your scars, appreciate their depth.

My opinion of the above. As set forth below.

"I require nothing from you but yourself, purely you, not anything of yours, no marriage contract, no dowry, nor did I study how to gratify my own desires, but rather yours, as you know. And if the title of wife seems more saintly or respectable, sweeter for me always is the name of friend, or, if you won't take offense, even concubine or whore, because it seemed to me that the more I was humble the more I would win your favor, and also the less harm I would do to your fame and reputation. You yourself did not completely forget this in your own account; in the letter of consolation I have spoken of above (referring to Abelards autobiography) you did not think it unworthy to set out some of the arguments by which I tried to dissuade you from joining us in an ill-fated marriage, a marriage that is chains... Neither wealth nor power, which depends on fortune, makes a person better. but rather virtue. Not any less, if someone more willing marries a rich man than a poor one, and covets in her husband not himself but what belongs to him, she weighs herself an object for sale. Certainly such a person, drawn into marriage by such desires, is owed wages not favor."

We are responsible to those who love us, to those whom we can make happy, to those who have done what we have asked them to do. Relations based on these obligations are the substance of love. A love based on mutual responsibility and care survives physical disability.

The very nature of the human animal is that which seeks to take advantage of those whom it perceives as weaker. The loftiness of the human ideal seeks to correct those errors inflicted on it by chasing that which inflicted the wounds. whether it be physical or ideal the human experience sets itself up for failure.

Wounds which have been inflicted require healing from with in. A building up of the self. This requires fortitude and courage. If we can not say no to that which would scar us then we have only received that which was our just measurement. To take stock in one's self. To rely on one's self. Is not an act of self-centeredness or the product of a cold heart. Self respect is that which prevents the act of scaring and Self love is that which makes us whole enough to love unreservedly another. To give them the best of ourselves with out reserve.

Any thing less is Sadomasochistic and undeserving of the word love.

I do see how the quote can seem sweet but having been there done that. I can tell you that there is no greater love than that which you hold for yourself. All others should pay court to that and in doing so, show their respect for you. 

Where there is respect, love will follow. 

Love you friends