What profound reward you must glean from studying the world so closely....Too many people turn away from small wonders, I find. There is so much more potency to be found in detail than generalities, b...
What happened now? he would ask -- another man thoroughly exhausted by me.
What I mean is- find somebody new to love someday. Take the time you need to heal, but don't forget to eventually share your heart with someone
We’re miserable because we think that we are mere individuals, alone with our fears and flaws and resentments and mortality. We wrongly believe that our limited little egos constitute our whole entire...
Well child, you may do whatever you like with your suffering. It belongs to you. But i shall tell you what i do with mine. I gasp it by the small hairs, i cast it to the ground and i grind it under th...
We're already separated that's official but there's still a window of hope left open that perhaps someday we could give things another try.
We must have the stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthless furnace of this world.)
We had more fun waiting in line together at the Department of Motor Vehicles than most couples have on their honeymoons. We gave each other same nickname, so there would be no separation between us. W...
We can change our wives, he said. We can change our jobs, our nationalities and even our religions, but we can never change our team.
We Americans often say that marriage is hard work. I'm not sure that the Hmong would understand this notion. Life is hard work, of course, and work is very hard work -- I'm quite certain they would ag...
Watch the heat of day pass into the cool night. Let go.
Virginia Woolf wrote, Across the broad continent of a woman's life falls the shadow of a sword. On one side of that sword, she said, there lies convention and tradition and order, where all is correct...
Traveling is the great true love of my life...I have always felt that to travel is worth any cost or sacrifice. I am loyal and constant in my love of travel.
Train them to pay attention to their choices. (Reduce, Reuse and Recycle are good ideas, he would lecture, but those three concepts should only be the last resort. What you really need to focus on are...
Those who are ill-prepared to endure the battle for survival should perhaps never have attempted living in the first place. The only unforgivable
There's a reason they call God a presence-because God is right here, right now.
There's a reason the call God a ~ because God is right , right In the present is the only place to find Him, and now is the only time.
Then he asked me to tell him some stories about India, about America, about Italy, about my family. That's when I realized that I am not Ketut Liyer's English teacher, nor am I exactly his theological...
The universe buries strange jewels deep within us all, and then stands back to see if we can find them. The hunt to discover those jewels––that's creative living.
The poet Jack Gilbert (no relation, sadly for me) wrote that marriage is what happens between the memorable. He said that we often look back on our marriages years later, perhaps after one spouse has...