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  • #1
    Elizabeth Gilbert
    “Love renders all of our plans and all of our hopes a gamble”
    Elizabeth Gilbert, Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

  • #2
    Elizabeth Gilbert
    “You can measure the happiness of a marriage by the number of scars that each partner carries on their tongues, earned from years of biting back angry words.”
    Elizabeth Gilbert, Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

  • #3
    Elizabeth Gilbert
    “To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow - this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.”
    Elizabeth Gilbert, Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

  • #4
    Elizabeth Gilbert
    “Plant an expectation; reap a disappointment." (Quoting an old adage)”
    Elizabeth Gilbert, Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

  • #5
    Stephen Kendrick
    “The only way love can last a lifetime is if it's unconditional. The truth is this: love is not determined by the one being loved but rather by the one choosing to love.”
    Stephen Kendrick, The Love Dare

  • #6
    Stephen Kendrick
    “There must be a stronger foundation than mere friendship or sexual attraction. Unconditional love, agape love, will not be swayed by time or circumstances. ”
    Stephen Kendrick, The Love Dare

  • #7
    Stephen Kendrick
    “Love chooses to believe the best about people. It gives them the benefit of the doubt. It refuses to fill in the unknowns with negative assumptions. And when our worst hopes are proven to be true, love makes every effort to deal with them and move forward. As much as possible, love focuses on the positive.”
    Stephen Kendrick, The Love Dare

  • #8
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.”
    Rumi

  • #9
    Leo Tolstoy
    “Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.”
    Leo Tolstoy

  • #10
    Mineko Iwasaki
    “Stab the body and it heals, but injure the heart and the wound lasts a lifetime.”
    Mineko Iwasaki

  • #11
    Susan Forward
    “Love is a verb, not a noun. It is active. Love is not just feelings of passion and romance. It is behavior. If a man lies to you, he is behaving badly and unlovingly toward you. He is disrespecting you and your relationship. The words “I love you” are not enough to make up for that. Don’t kid yourself that they are.”
    Susan Forward, When Your Lover Is a Liar: Healing the Wounds of Deception and Betrayal

  • #12
    Rudolf Steiner
    “Just as in the body, eye and ear develop as organs of perception, as senses for bodily processes, so does a man develop in himself soul and spiritual organs of perception through which the soul and spiritual worlds are opened to him. For those who do not have such higher senses, these worlds are dark and silent, just as the bodily world is dark and silent for a being without eyes and ears.”
    Rudolf Steiner, Theosophy: An Introduction to the Spiritual Processes in Human Life and in the Cosmos

  • #13
    Gary Zukav
    “Nonsense is that which does not fit into the prearranged patterns which we have superimposed on reality...Nonsense is nonsense only when we have not yet found that point of view from which it makes sense.”
    Gary Zukav

  • #14
    Charles Bukowski
    “Beasts bounding through time.

    Van Gogh writing his brother for paints
    Hemingway testing his shotgun
    Celine going broke as a doctor of medicine
    the impossibility of being human
    Villon expelled from Paris for being a thief
    Faulkner drunk in the gutters of his town
    the impossibility of being human
    Burroughs killing his wife with a gun
    Mailer stabbing his
    the impossibility of being human
    Maupassant going mad in a rowboat
    Dostoevsky lined up against a wall to be shot
    Crane off the back of a boat into the propeller
    the impossibility
    Sylvia with her head in the oven like a baked potato
    Harry Crosby leaping into that Black Sun
    Lorca murdered in the road by the Spanish troops
    the impossibility
    Artaud sitting on a madhouse bench
    Chatterton drinking rat poison
    Shakespeare a plagiarist
    Beethoven with a horn stuck into his head against deafness
    the impossibility the impossibility
    Nietzsche gone totally mad
    the impossibility of being human
    all too human
    this breathing
    in and out
    out and in
    these punks
    these cowards
    these champions
    these mad dogs of glory

    moving this little bit of light toward
    us
    impossibly”
    Charles Bukowski, You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

  • #15
    Oscar Wilde
    “The things people say of a man do not alter a man. He is what he is. Public opinion is of no value whatsoever. Even if people employ actual violence, they are not to be violent in turn. That would be to fall to the same low level. After all, even in prison, a man can be quite free. His soul can be free. His personality can be untroubled. He can be at peace. And, above all things, they are not to interfere with other people or judge them in any way. Personality is a very mysterious thing. A man cannot always be estimated by what he does. He may keep the law, and yet be worthless. He may break the law, and yet be fine. He may be bad, without ever doing anything bad. He may commit a sin against society, and yet realize through that sin his true perfection.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism

  • #16
    Dean Koontz
    “Fear is useful when it’s on a leash, but it’s always a bad dog when you let it run free in your mind.”
    Dean Koontz, The House at the End of the World

  • #17
    Aleron Kong
    “Assumptions create barriers in your own mind.  By taking shortcuts in logic, you wall yourself off from true enlightenment.”
    Aleron Kong, The Land: Raiders

  • #18
    Aleron Kong
    “Few know this, but there is no greater suffering than a large man who hasn’t eaten.  It was superseded only by a grown man with a cold.”
    Aleron Kong, The Land: Monsters



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