The answer doesn't lie in learning how to protect ourselves from life-it lies in learning how to become strong enough to let a bit more of it in..

The romantic myth is so strong that it survives the wear and tear of marriage by simply detaching from it and floating up on ahead, and women who are….

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy fro….

Life is like fording a river, stepping from one slippery stone to another, and you must rejoice every time you don't lose your balance, and learn to ….

The job of a friend is not to decide what should be done, not to run interference or pick up the slack. The job of a friend is to understand, and to ….

The roots of love sink down and deep and strike out far, and they are arteries that feed our lives, so we must see that they get the water and sun th….

If there are no endings, there are no beginnings and you see no new lands, so for everything that's lost, there is usually something gained..

The people in your life are like the pillars on your porch. Sometimes they hold you up, and sometimes they lean on you. Sometimes it's enough to know….

One can never change the past, only the hold it has on you, and while nothing in your life is reversible, you can reverse it nevertheless..

Loving someone means helping them to be more themselves, which can be different from being what you’d like them to be, although often they turn out t….

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always cost more..

I'm not sure there can be loving without commitment, although commitment takes all kinds of forms, and there can be commitment for the moment as well….

There are problems connected with infidelity and problems connected with being faithful at any cost, and I am for letting those concerned choose the ….

Friends are like windows through which you see out into the world and back into yourself. If you don't have friends you see much less than you otherw….

One can never change the past, only the hold it has on you..

One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment..

The day you spend hoping, the day you spend waiting, the day you spend in despair, is a day in your life as much as the tomorrow you hope for, but wh….

There are really only two ways to approach life - as victim or as gallant fighter - and you must decide if you want to act or react, deal your own ca….

Until you divest yourself of the notion that you are a collection of needs, an empty vessel that someone else must fill up, there will be no safe pla….

Anger is a passion, so it makes people feel alive and makes them feel they matter and are in charge of their lives. So people often need to renew the….

The conflict between what one is and who one is expected to be touches all of us. And sometimes, rather than reach for what one could be, we choose t….