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Everything worth having lives on the other side of effort. Everything good requires tending. Everything beautiful demands maintenance. The people who

They forgave each other without sharing the details of their betrayals. They would spend the rest of their lives atoning for those months when they ha

To agree to a marriage is to consent to a mutual act of transformation, to promise to ensure that the versions of yourselves that you will become will

In the end is it not futile to try and follow the course of a quarrel between husband and wife? Such a conversation is sure to meander more than any o

“Here’s the thing about marriage. We commit to sticking together for richer or poorer, through sickness and health and during good times and bad, assu

I first encountered Robin Wall Kimmerer’s book, Braiding Sweetgrass, in the ecology section of my local bookstore.When I bought it, I had little idea

People fall out of love when they lose faith in the story the other person is writing. You wake up one day and think: why am I trapped inside this nar

We think we live in boxes until we look closer and find we’re in fact living in irregular shapes, in big, misshapen accidents.

It has taken me all my life up to now to fall in love with the world, but I've started to feel it in the last couple years.  To fall in love with the

"You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You have to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it

Exploring the internet together should be like exploring a vast old library with your friends. Wandering down different shelves, skimming the pages th

I hope you will find the cracks in the world and wedge them wider, so the light of other suns shines through; I hope you will keep the world unruly, m

maybe this ache in my chest is actually the feeling of my heart growing stronger from its battles. louise kaufmann

wasn’t that itself the miracle—that love really was an obscure and unfathomable connection between individuals, and not an economic contest where ever

Da steht er, ihr Mensch, den sie kennt wie niemanden sonst. So viel Wissen, angesammelt über die Jahre hinweg. Alma hat unter die Dielen und Dachbalke

Alle Männer, die sie vor ihm kennengelernt hatte, hatten etwas von ihr genommen. Kleine Teile, wie Souvenirs, sodass sie nachts, wenn sie in fremden W

Seit der Nacht mit Polina dachte Hannes über die Frage nach, ob er jemals besser verstehen würde, was das ist – Liebe. Vielleicht ist es die Hoffnung

Kiki turned to her husband with a thesis for a face, of which only Howard could know every line and reference.

He kisses - how do I explain it? Like someone in love. Like he has nothing to lose. Like someone who has just learned a foreign language and can only

“Though we live in a world made of gifts, we find ourselves harnessed to institutions and an economy that relentlessly asks, ‘What more can we take fr

People don't want you to be perfect. What they want is to feel connected with you.

There is the kindness of ‘please’ and ‘thank you.’ And the kindness of “I was wrong, I’m sorry.” The small kindnesses that smooth our interactions and

Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.

Ask yourself, next time you’re doing something enjoyable: are you really surrendering to the full enjoyment available here? The answer will often be n