Mars Macapinig

“We treat our encounters with them with carefree casualness. We are certain that our relationships will naturally take care of themselves.”
― Leo Buscaglia, Loving Each Other: The Challenge of Human Relationships

“There comes a time in some relationships when no matter how sincere the attempt to reconcile the differences or how strong the wish to recreate a part of the past once shared, the struggle becomes so painful that nothing else is felt and the world and all its beauty only add to the discomfort by providing cruel contrast.”
― Leo Buscaglia, Loving Each Other: The Challenge of Human Relationships

“When you love someone you do not love them all the time, in exactly the same way, from moment to moment. It is an impossibility. It is even a lie to pretend to. And yet this is exactly what most of us demand. We have so little faith in the ebb and flow of life, of love, of relationships. We leap at the flow of the tide and resist in terror its ebb. We are afraid it will never return. We insist on permanency, on duration, on continuity; when the only continuity possible, in life as in love, is in growth, in fluidity - in freedom”
― Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Gift from the Sea

“When we give ourselves in love we become our most vulnerable. We are never safe. We become open to disappointment and hurt.”
― Leo Buscaglia, Loving Each Other: The Challenge of Human Relationships