“Home is people. Not a place. If you go back there after the people are gone, then all you can see is what is not there any more”.
– Robin Hobb
We Give Thanks for Our Friends
“We give thanks for our friends.
Our dear friends.
We anger each other.
We share this sad earth, this tender life, this precious time.
Such richness. Such wildness.
Together we are blown about.
Together we are dragged along.
All this delight.
All this suffering.
All this forgiving life.
We hold it together.
Amen. ”
– Michael Leunig. Australian writer & cartoonist.
Problems in a Relationship
“Love and war are both conditions of our human brain.
Arguably, though, the brain is wired first and foremost for war, rather than for love.
The brain’s primary function is to ensure we survive … and it is very good at this… but the things we do to keep from getting killed often are exactly the things that keep us from getting into a relationship or staying in one.”
– Stan Tatkin, in Wired for Love.
I Love You
“When I say, ‘I love you’, do I come with a full bowl to be shared, or an empty bowl
to be filled?”
– Old Chinese Proverb.
Loving Someone
“Happy comes and goes.
Loving someone isn’t that crazy infatuation that you feel at first. That passes.
Well, not passes, but it calms down, and then sometimes, when you least expect it, you get a glimpse of the person and it all comes back again, in a big rush.
But even that’s not what you’re looking for.
What you’re looking for is the feeling that no matter what, being with that person is always going to be better than being without that person.
Good times or bad.
That having that person around makes whatever you’re going through better, or at least more tolerable.”
– Robin Hobb.
Listening to Life 