Thomas Unterkircher
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Thomas Unterkircher
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 had not only forsaken their marriage but given up hope. Each child became a consecration, further commitment to stay put and be happy. And they often were.
Angela Flournoy • The Turner House
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 use the present tense and only the second person. Only now, only you.
Andrew Sean Greer • Less
That’s the very reason they put rubbers on the end of pencils... because people make mistakes.
– Phoebe Waller-Bridge
"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 happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes too near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their
... See moreIn meditation, you may feel loving or calm. If so, wonderful — enjoy. Or you may feel annoyed or self-conscious. Also no problem. If these latter occur, have a sense of humor about the backfiring hilarity of this meditative situation, and send that sense of humor down and into your black, black heart. Compassion by another name. There's always a... See more
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