How can love be worthy of its name if one selects solely the pretty things and leaves out the hardships It is easy to enjoy the good and dislike the bad. Anybody can do that. The real challenge is to love the good and the bad together not because you need to take the rough with the smooth but because you need to go beyond such descriptions and accept love in its entirety.
To fall in love is easy even to remain in it is not difficult our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.