Ruin is a gift. Ruin is the road to transformation.
Psychologists suggest that we must reach back at least three generations to look for clues whenever we begin untangling the emotional legacy of any one family's history.
Plant an expectation; reap a disappointment. (Quoting an old adage)
Only through constant focus can you become independent. Only through independence can you know yourself. And only through knowing yourself will you be able to ask the key question of your life: What i...
One thing I do know about intimacy is that there are certain natural laws which govern the sexual experience of two people, and that these laws cannot be budged any more than gravity can be negotiated...
Marriage survives... because it evolves.
London? Paris? Berlin? Zurich? Maybe Brussels, center of the young union? They all strive to outdo one another culturally, architecturally, politically, fiscally. But Rome, it should be said, has not...
Life goes on, after all, and one must always seek the lesson even through the sorrow. Never remain static; never stop collecting information. And
I only meant that there was a place within my imagination so fathomlessly deep that the light of the real world could never touch it.
Despair is a tedious business and quickly becomes repetitive.
The appreciation of pleasure can be an anchor of one's humanity.
It is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else's life with perfection.
Both pleasure and devotion require a stress-free space in which to flourish...
we must take care of our families wherever we find them.
You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestation of your own blessings.
You were given life; it is your duty (and also your entitlement as a human being) to find something beautiful within life, no matter how slight.
Nobody until very recently would have thought that their husband was supposed to be their best friend, confidante, intellectual soul mate, co-parent, inspiration.
A woman's place is in the kitchen...sitting in a comfortable chair, with her feet up, drinking a glass of wine and watching her husband cook dinner.
When you have only two minutes to say good-bye to the person you love most in the world, and you don’t know when you’ll see each other again, you can become logjammed with the effort to say and do and...
Well... why is a hard question to answer in any language.