Both spiritual companionship and spiritual motherliness are not limited to the physical wife and mother relationship, but they extend to all people with whom woman comes into contact.

I love how 'melodrama' is a denigrated term - a lower-class citizen to other genres. And yet that's what life is, man.

Love is my decision to make your problem my problem.

This is golden, Katie thought as they rumbled down the freeway eating fast-food tacos. I love being "us".

No one knows the weight of another's burden

and they shared her joy. Luke 1:58

No one knows the weight of another's burden. GEORGE HERBERT

I have often discovered how profitable it is to give sorrow an ethical expression, not to erase the aesthetic factor in sorrow but to master it ethically. As long as sorrow is quiet and humble, I do not fear it; if it becomes vehement and passionate, sophistical so that it deludes me into despondency, I arise, I brook no rebellion, I will have nothing in the world cheat me of what I have from God's hand as a gift of grace. I do not chase sorrow away, do not try to forget it, I repent.

Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength.

God doesn't intend for you to handle all the pain and stress in your life by yourself. We were wired for each other. We need each other.

Surround yourself with those who won't compete but will revel in your success and see your ascent as a reflection of their own possibilities.

Friends don't get jealous of each other or begrudge the other for finding success. They celebrate every victory together.