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22 voters
“I don't expect to be happy. I don't imagine that I will find love, whatever that means, or that if I do find it, it will make me happy. I don't think of love as the answer or the solution. I think of love as a force of nature - as strong as the sun, as necessary, as impersonal, as gigantic, as impossible, as scorching as it is warming, as drought-making as it is life-giving.”
― Lighthousekeeping
― Lighthousekeeping
“Подарил мне жизнь.
Чем отдарюсь?
Стихами.
Больше у меня ничего нет.
Да и это — моё ли?
Так ребёнком
я дарила маме
открытки на день рождения:
выбирала сама,
деньги брала у папы.”
― Стихотворения
Чем отдарюсь?
Стихами.
Больше у меня ничего нет.
Да и это — моё ли?
Так ребёнком
я дарила маме
открытки на день рождения:
выбирала сама,
деньги брала у папы.”
― Стихотворения
“There is so little life, and it is fraught with chance. We meet, we don't meet, we take the wrong turning, and still bump into each other. We conscientiously choose the 'right road' and it leads nowhere.”
― Lighthousekeeping
― Lighthousekeeping
“In a relationship, commitment is a choice we make every single day, over and over again. We choose it even when we are tired and overworked and stressed out. We choose it no matter what attractive person crosses our path. We also choose it every time our partner makes a bid for attention and we put down our book, or look away from the television, or up from our smartphone, or stop whatever it is we’re occupied with to acknowledge their importance in our life. This acknowledgement may call for just a smile or for a conversation, but whatever it calls for, we authentically try to deliver. When we make our relationship a priority by showing that it’s a priority, we build trust and demonstrate our loyalty far beyond any words we say in our wedding vows. What the Love Lab found is that it is the small, positive things done often that make the most difference and build that cocoon of trust and safety in our relationships.”
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Elena’s 2025 Year in Books
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