I realized that neither Paul nor Barnabas were bad people. They were good people. But they weren't good together. And that's okay. It's so much healthier to be brave enough to go your separate ways than to keep stuffing and drown in a sea of bitterness.

Find a friend who can speak rationality into your irrational impulses. A friend who will hold you accountable, speak the truth in love, and pray for you.

The gift of presence is a rare and beautiful gift. To come - unguarded, undistracted - and be fully present, fully engaged with whoever we are with at that moment.

If strangers and strange sights can shake the world of children, it takes the people they know and love best to pull it out from under them like a chair.

Must live maturely, knowing that whatever else is happening, we must preserve the relationship if we would find our way.

The worst blows typically come from family.

Many relationships fail for the insistence of treating others as problems to be solved, rather than as hearts to be known and loved.

Love doth scathe The gentle heart, as northern blasts do roses.

Paul and I know each other on a lot of different levels that very few people know about.

Loneliness does not come from having no people around you, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem most important to you.

The best thing to hold onto in this life is each other

Being a divorcee in a small town is a little like playing Monopoly; eventually you land on all the properties.