There Are Some Decisions In Life That

It Takes Great Generosity To Accept Generosity.

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.

Marriage Is Supposed To Do Everything, Like Duz, Which Is More Than Half Its Problem. It Is Said To Save Us, Define Us, Give Us Purpose, Keep Us From Loneliness, And Incidentally Balance Our Diet And Wash Our Socks, And When It Doesn't, We Get Divorced.

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

The Job Of A Friend Is Not To Decide What Should Be Done, Not To Run Interference Or Pick Up The Slack. The Job Of A Friend Is To Understand, And To Supply Energy And Hope, And In Doing So To Keep Those They Value On Their Feet A Little Longer, So That They Can Fight Another Round And Grow Strong In Themselves.