But Barry, to me, is head and shoulders above everybody.
Ask anyone who has been in a love relationship for a while: nothing is perfect.
When you ask for patience, what you get is a line at the bank. In other words, life gives you the people, places, and situations that are going to allow you to once and for all develop what it is you need.
Loving myself exactly where I am is the only way to get where I'm going
Women with low self-esteem love bad boys. Women who have work to do love bad boys. Women who love themselves love good men.
Caring - about people, about things, about life - is an act of maturity.
All of us, consciously or unconsciously, set out to have the best possible love life. Valentine's Day simply shines a light on the degree to which that didn't - or hasn't yet - materialized.
If any man would come after me, let him deny himself. " The disciple must say to himself the same words Peter said of Christ when he denied him: "I know not this man. " Self-denial is never just a series of isolated acts of mortification or asceticism. It is not suicide, for there is an element of self-will even in that. To deny oneself is to be aware only of Christ and no more of self, to see only him who goes before and no more the road which is too hard for us. Once more, all that self denial can say is: "He leads the way, keep close to him.
Do not be misled by appearances for these are apt to be deceptive.
When I read John Cage's book Silence, I was growing up in Louisville, Kentucky. For me, records were a mode of time travel and geographic travel, interfacing with a much larger world. So it seemed antiquated and backwards that Cage would be so down on them.
She suspected him of infidelity, with and without reason, morning, noon and night.