by angela on August 27, 2009
This bears repeating and applies to all relationships (spouses, parents, children, relatives, & friends) :
1. Real love is development of self love first. Toxic love is development or obsession with the relationship.
2. Real love wants everyone to grow. It gives love room. Toxic- Security, comfort in sameness; intensity of need seen as proof of love [...]
by angela on April 2, 2009
Friend, there’s a window that opens from heart to heart, and there are ways of closing it completely, not a needle’s eye of access. Open or shut; both ways are sometimes appropriate.
Mevlana Rumi (1207 – 1273)
by angela on April 1, 2009
“Whereas the Greeks gave to will the boundaries of reason, we have come to put the will’s impulse in the very center of reason, which has, as a result, become deadly.”
Albert Camus
by angela on March 31, 2009
It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.
~ Betty Friedan
by angela on March 30, 2009
Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible to see the other whole against the sky.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke