You know what it’s like getting up every morning? Feeling hopeless, feeling like the love of your life is waking up with the wrong man, but at the same time hoping that she still finds happiness, even if it’s never going to be with you.
- Hitch
The view changes from where you are standing. Words can wound, and wounds can heal. All of these things are true.
- Neil Gaiman
We’re all seeking that special person who is right for us. But if you’ve been through enough relationships, you begin to suspect there’s no right person, just different flavors of wrong. Why is this? Because you yourself are wrong in some way, and you seek out partners who are wrong in some complementary way. But it takes a lot of living to grow fully into your own wrongness. And it isn’t until you finally run up against your deepest demons, your unsolvable problems—the ones that make you truly who you are — that we’re ready to find a lifelong mate. Only then do you finally know what you’re looking for. You’re looking for the wrong person. But not just any wrong person: the right wrong person — someone you lovingly gaze upon and think, “This is the problem I want to have.
- Galway Kinnell
The boy was beginning to understand that intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life, where the histories of all people are connected, and we are able to know everything, because it’s all written there.
