Receive monthly newsletters - shopping specials, new articles, and more. I'm not certain where I first heard this story, but it has become one of my favorites. The boundless nature of human love is definable only when you have a child. And only after we have children can we truly understand the truth of the statement.
Children open our hearts.
I heard a quote recently that likened having children to growing a new heart and allowing it to walk along on its own. To go to kindergarten, to fall in love, to experience the thrill of leaving home for the first time. All the while making our own heart completely vulnerable to entities and forces we never even experience firsthand. When we have children, our perspective broadens. No longer do we look at the world in terms of our own lives and well-being, but of that of another.