Patrick

“If their happiness was best served by leaving me, how would I feel about it?" This reveals the degree to which we are trying to restrict and control the other person--which is attachment and not love.”
― David R. Hawkins, Letting Go: The Pathway of Surrender

“He cannot become old, for he has never been young; he cannot become young, for he has already become old; in a way he cannot die, for he has never lived; in a way he cannot live, for he is already dead.”
― Søren Kierkegaard, Either/Or: A Fragment of Life

“Within ten days you will seem a god to those to whom you are now a beast and an ape, if you will return to your principles and the worship of reason.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“Tradition is a set of solutions for which we have forgotten the problems. Throw away the solution and you get the problem back. Sometimes the problem has mutated or disappeared. Often it is still there as strong as it ever was.”
― Donald Kingsbury, Courtship Rite