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Loving Each Other by Buscaglia

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Life devoid of mystery and risk is only half a life. All I really owned was what I was. Learn to listen. You don't learn anything from hearing yourself talk. If I were living with me, would I stick around? Be polite. Love does not give you the license to be for rudeness. What a grand feeling to have a relationship with someone who is loved not only by you but by many. That means you've made a good choice. Don't think in terms of forever. Think of now, and forever will take care of itself. With each relationship you are not only giving but becoming more. There are times when you may want to give up on a relationship, but never give up on relating. After an argument is over, forget it. Feelings have meaning only as they are expressed in action. Perhaps much happiness is lost in the pursuit of it. We must learn that loving others is to want them to be themselves--painful as it may be--with or without you. Laughter is the closest distance between peo

Aleph by Paulo Coelho

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Life decided to separate us. A loyal adversary who would not let me win a fight I didn't deserve. Only women believe in love. Men don't. I don't see why I shouldn't forgive the man I love. Hating is very wearisome. I will be capable of loving regardless of wether I am loved in return, of giving even when I have nothing, of drying my tears even while I weep. Good fighters use their opponent's energy. Conflicts are for undiscerning souls. A life without cause is a life without effect. Love being stronger than the individual. Yes, but love us made up of choices. I am crying because there is no other way to show what I feel. I am alive. I'm afraid of my fear. Only two things can reveal life great secrets: suffering and love. Our relationship is more alive than ever. I haven't been married for more than 20 years to the same person, because neither she nor I have remained the same that's why I don't expect her to behave as she did we first met. Nor does sh

I Want

I want... a look that does not question us a word that does not pick doubts a touch that does not ask why I feel bad a hug that does not say sorry a kiss that will remind me what's missing I don't want them if all they ever ask is why. I badly need them to tell me how much.