The more familiar two people become, the more the language they speak together departs from that of the ordinary, dictionary-defined discourse. Familiarity creates a new language, an in-house language of intimacy that carries reference to the story the two lovers are weaving together and that cannot be readily understood by others.

Must being in love always mean being in pain?

Never too late to learn some embarrassingly basic, stupidly obvious things about oneself.

Forgiveness requires a sense that bad behaviour is a sign of suffering rather than malice.

what we call a home is merely any place that succeeds in making more consistenly available to us the important truths which the wider world ignores, or which our distracted and irresolute selves have trouble holding onto." (p123) Architecture of Happiness

Rather than getting more spoilt with age, as difficulties pile up, epiphanies of gratitude abound.

So many complaints boil down to the belly ache of the fragile, mortal, ignored ego in a vast and indifferent universe.