We were classically in love, holding the classic beliefs: Everything is possible between us, we can authentically care for each other through not just the coming days but… the numerous busy decades to come.… It's in no way denigrating to admit what we all know: This time comes and then it goes.

—Jane Shapiro

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He didn't say, Why had I gone. He didn't say, When would I return. He didn't ask anything about my plans, or tell me anything about him. Instead, when at last he spoke, Dennis said, "I'd be curious to know what you think marriage is. If the word marriage has any meaning for you?"
What an excellent question! It was elegant, succinct, dignified, painful, and utterly shaming—a beautiful response.
On the highway trucks blew past. I stood in a hot wind, clutching the receiver, trying, against daunting odds, to compose the felicitous answer his query deserved. Nothing would do. Not the intimidated child's "I don't know." Not the political campaigner's "I'm glad you asked." Not the overextended adulterer's "Please don't question me now." After a long, potentially fertile, but finally unproductive silence, I said, "I think when you and I got married, we felt we really loved each other."
And canny Dennis said, "I ain't talking about love.

—Jane Shapiro

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The best thing against worry is to take care of others right away.

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To embrace the child may threaten the adult who values information above wonder, entertainment above play, and intelligence above ignorance. If we were really to care for the child, we would have to face our own lower natures—our indomitable emotions, our insane desires, and the vast range of our incapacity.

—Thomas Moore

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The more we take the welfare of others to heart and work for their benefit, the more benefit we derive for ourselves. This is a fact we can see. And the more selfish we remain and self-centered, the more selfish our way of life is, the lonelier we feel and the more miserable. This is also a fact we can see.

—14th Dalai Lama

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What we cultivate and care about inwardly either freshens or poisons the bloodstream of humanity.

—Robert Corin Morris

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The sick do not ask if the hand that smoothes their pillow is pure, nor the dying care if the lips that touch their brow have known the kiss of sin.

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We were classically in love, holding the classic beliefs: Everything is possible between us, we can authentically care for each other through not just the coming days but . . . the numerous busy decades to come. . . . It's in no way denigrating to admit what we all know: This time comes and then it goes.