“Farewells can be shattering, but returns are surely worse. Solid flesh can never live up to the bright shadow cast by its absence. Time and distance blur the edges; then suddenly the beloved has arrived, and it’s noon with its merciless light, and every spot and pore and wrinkle and bristle stands clear.”
~ Margaret Atwood
Tag Archives: quotations
Negative Thinking
“Holding on to negative feelings and past circumstances is like placing a lock on your soul.”
― Charles F. Glassman
Livid: The Lover’s Dictionary
Pain and Gain
Controlling Others
“Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.”
~ Thomas à Kempis
Affair Help Quotations: Acceptance
Infidelity: No One is Immune
No One is Immune
Peggy Vaughan, author of The Monogamy Myth
The most immediate reason we need to be informed about affairs is because no one is immune from having affairs disrupt their lives or the lives of those they care about; they happen to all kinds of people, in all walks of life. Traditionally our attitude has been that unless it touches us personally, we deal with it by ignoring it, denying it, or condemning it. Unfortunately, this does nothing either to help deter affairs or to deal with their consequences. If we’re to be the kind of caring, compassionate society we aspire to be, we can’t turn our backs on the countless people who are suffering alone.”
Helping Somebody Like You
Because I know something you don’t know …
Because I know something that you don’t know. I know that this is the worst experience of your life, but I also know that someday you’ll move past it and you’ll be fine. And helping somebody like you through the worst experience of her life is incredibly gratifying.”
Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love
