Gracie

Love does not lead to an end to difficulties, it provides us with the means to cope with our difficulties in ways that enhance our growth.

“If there was nothing else, reading would—obviously—be worth living for.”

Growing up is, at heart, the process of learning to take responsibility for whatever happens in your life. To choose growth is to embrace a love that heals.

Grief is most often unrelenting when individuals are not reconciled to the reality of loss.

Accepting death with love means we embrace the reality of the unexpected, of experiences over which we have no control.

When we love every day we do not need the eminent threat of sure death to be true to ourselves.

To return to love he had to be willing to sacrifice and surrender, to let go of the fantasy of being someone with no sustained emotional needs to acknowledge his need to love and be loved. We sacrifice our old selves in order to be changed by love and we surrender to the power of the new self.

“If we become obsessed with the idea of death hiding and waiting for us in ambush, we are not making death more real but life less real.

To know and keep true love we have to be willing to surrender the will to power.