There Are Some Decisions In Life That

I'm Not Sure There Can Be Loving Without Commitment, Although Commitment Takes All Kinds Of Forms, And There Can Be Commitment For The Moment As Well As Commitment For All Time. The Kind That Is Essential For Loving Marriages - And Love Affairs, As Well - Is A Commitment To Preserving The Essential Quality Of Your Partner's Soul, Adding To Them As A Person Rather Than Taking Away.

One Can't Run In A Park Without A Dog Or Make Angels In The Snow Without A Child And There Are Things One Can't Do Without A Lover, So The Loss Of The Lover Is Like An Amputation And The Patient Goes Into Shock.

Until You Divest Yourself Of The Notion That You Are A Collection Of Needs, An Empty Vessel That Someone Else Must Fill Up, There Will Be No Safe Place To Harbor Yourself, No Safe Shore To Reach. As Long As You Think Mostly Of Getting, You Will Have Nothing Real To Give.

But Who Would Rush At A Benighted Man, And Give Him Two Black Eyes For Being Blind?

There Are Really Only Two Ways To Approach Life - As Victim Or As Gallant Fighter - And You Must Decide If You Want To Act Or React, Deal Your Own Cards Or Play With A Stacked Deck. And If You Don't Decide Which Way To Play With Life, It Always Plays With You.