Carrie Contey on Worrying
“Worrying is not a tool, it’s an alarm system. Allow it to serves as a warning that you need to come back to the present.” -Carrie Contey Carrie Contey – The Secret to Making Everything, and I mean...
View ArticleOvid on Love and Idleness
“Qui nolet fieri desidiosus, amet! Let who does not wish to be idle fall in love!” Ovid – Amores (The Loves), I, ix, 46.
View ArticleTerry Real on Sarcasm
“Sarcasm eats intimacy.” Dr. Terry Real author of The New Rules of Marriage
View ArticleFrank Pittman on the Real Secret of Happiness
“Happy people learn that happiness, like sweat, is a by-product of activity. You can only achieve happiness if you are too busy living your life to notice whether you are happy or not.” - Frank Pittman
View ArticleAnne Lamott on Why Things Go Wrong All at Once
“It turned out this man worked for the Dalai Lama. And she said gently-that they believe when a lot of things start going wrong all at once, it is to protect something big and lovely that is trying to...
View ArticleTerry Real on Why Couples Become Disconnected
“The degeneration of connection that spans years is made up of thousands of tiny incidents of disconnection that span mere moments.” Terry Real – How Can I Get Through to You?
View ArticleHow Our Family Teaches Love
“It is inside the family that we first learn a ‘technology’ that respects the dignity of the weak and vulnerable.” - David L. Schindler Ordering Love
View ArticleSt. Gregory on the Proof of Love
“The proof of love is in the works. Where love exists, it works great things. But when it ceases to act, it ceases to exist.” - St. Gregory the Great
View ArticleTolerance for Vulnerability
“When we lose our tolerance for vulnerability, joy becomes foreboding.” Brené Brown on why we feel fear when things seem to be going too well.
View ArticlePoet Stephen Dunn on Marriage
It would be a lie to say I must choose between happiness and art. I can live with many things. Just to admit that I’ve been married for 35 years means that I’ve experienced joy and diminution and quiet...
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