take me home

And when you choose a life partner, you’re choosing a lot of things, including your parenting partner and someone who will deeply influence your children, your eating companion for about 20,000 meals, your travel companion for about 100 vacations, your primary leisure time and retirement friend, your career therapist, and someone whose day you’ll hear about 18,000 times.

Read good books, have good sentences in your ears. Be by yourself as often as you can. Walk. Take the phone off the hook. Avoid too much noise. Protect your time. Feed your inner life.

“The place to improve the world is first in one’s own heart and head and hands, and then work outward from there.”

One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt.

To love everyone unconditionally does not mean to give everyone your unconditional time. Sometimes, to love completely, we must never see someone again. This, too, is love. This is giving someone the freedom to exist and be happy, even if it must be without you.