the Capacity to Love is more important than the Desire to Love. When a person has both an open heart and high inner discipline, such a person has the Capacity to pay attention to the real you, to let you have the Floor in conversation, to give to you even though another priority calls.
Can you hold back your own preferences? Can you explain the difference between a Need and a Preference? You persist across time for Self Improvement and to achieve Purposes.
Ray Kroc founder of McDonalds said "Press on," continuing day after day year after year.
Leonardo DaVinci said, "God sells all things for a price." We let go of one possibility to pursue the possibility we want.
Yes, Bruce, we need persistence to achieve our purposes. But we also can change our preferences and purposes according to the situation and to our will.