We do learn and develop when we are exposed to those who are greater than we are. Perhaps this is the chief way we mature.

Severe illness isolates those in close contact with it, because it inevitably narrows the focus of concern. To a certain extent this can lead to healing, but not if the circle of concern is so tight that it cannot be broken into, or out of.

The joys of love...last only a moment. The sorrows of love last all the life long.

We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane asylums, but these are the symptoms of our illness and the result of our failures in love.

Because it is the nature of love to create, a marriage itself is something which has to be created, so that, together we become a new creature.

And sometimes when we listen, we are led into places we do not expect, into adventures we do not always understand.

Accepting that we are angry is a healthy and appropriate response as long as we don't get stuck in it. Acknowledging it is one way of going through it.