“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind.”— Unknown
“Being a good friend doesn’t mean you always have all the right words to say. Sometimes it means you just know when to be a good listener.”— Katrina Mayer
“You can never completely know anyone, no matter how well you think you do. There will always be some truth about them you don’t ever get to know.”— Susane Colasanti, So Much Closer
“The relevant question in psychiatry shouldn’t be what’s wrong with you, but what happened to you.”— Eleanor Longden
“The other day, lying in bed, I felt my heart beating for the first time in a long while. I realized how little I live in my body, how much in my mind”
-Rodger kamenetz, from Terra infirma
“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
– George Orwell
Truth is that the heart needs more forms of love from your partner than just romantic love. It needs the nurturing and unconditional love like the one that comes from a parent. It needs the love that helps you achieve your maximum potential, that empowers your virtues and is patient with your flaws like that of a teacher. It needs the love of a friend who will listen without judgment, who will laugh with you and be your confidant and accomplice. It needs the devoted love of a healer who will tend to your wounds and hurts and never turn a blind eye to your suffering but rather help the healing process knowing all the time the healing and the timing is all yours. Love is more than just romance and passion, and sooner or later it will die out if you do not nurture all the other faces of love. For if love has a thousand faces, how bland would it be if my love for you were the same one all the time.
e.v.e.
Life’s better when nobody knows anything about you