some of the contents that i really liked from the novel "A Bridge Across Forever"
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true.
To bring anything into your life imagine that it’s already there.
The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.
The only thing that shatters dream is compromise.
“That’s what learning is, after all: not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we’ve changed because of it and what we take away from it that we never had before, to apply to other games. Losing in a curious way is winning.”
When night came,
A baby moon
Laughed sideways in the dark.
I laughed back
And thought:
Partway across the world
Your sky
Is filled with the same
Golden laughter,
And hoped that you,
Twinkling blue eyes,
Saw and heard,
So that somehow we three
Were joined in our gladness,
Each in our own space,
Together apart,
Distance meaningless.
And I slept
In a world
Full of smiles.
Smoking: its like saying to everyone around you-“you matter so little to me that I don’t care if you cant breathe. Die if you want, I’m lighting up!” not a courteous habit. Not something to do around people you like.
Walls don’t protect you. They isolate you.
Boredom between two people doesn’t come from being together, physically. It comes from being apart, mentally and spiritually.
Anyone you want to keep in your life- never take them for granted.
Look for love-affair that gets better with time, admiration brightening, trust that grows through storms.
Finding intense intimacy and joy maybe everyone’s needs in a soul mate, but we despair of finding them and we try to settle for less. Settle for a lukewarm lover and mild happiness yet when we know in our hearts that lukewarm will turn cold; mild happiness will become a kind of nameless sadness, nagging questions: is this the love of my life, is this all there is, is this why I’m here? In our hearts we know there must be more, and we long for the one we never found.
Better to learn happiness alone, I thought, love my friends and my cat, better wait for a soul mate who never comes than to make a dull compromise.
A soul mate is someone who has locks that fit our keys, and keys to fit our locks. When we feel safe enough to open the locks, our truest selves step out and we can be completely and honestly who we are; we can be loved for who we are and not for who we’re pretending to be. Each unveils the best part of the other. No matter what else goes wrong with us, with that one person we’re safe in our own paradise. Our soul mate is one who shares our deepest longings, our sense of direction. When we’re two balloons and together our direction is up, chances are we’ve found the right person. Our soul mate is the one who makes life come to life.
