To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.
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Charles Dickens (Novelist), born February 7, 1812 (Sun in Aquarius, Moon in Sagittarius, Ascendant in Virgo)
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There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.
To the people who love you, you are beautiful already. This is not because they’re blind to your shortcomings but because they so clearly see your soul. Your shortcomings then dim by comparison. The people who care about you are willing to let you be imperfect and beautiful, too.
I just need you to be in my life. You’re too important to me.
“Your parents leave you too soon and your kids and spouse come along late, but your siblings know you when you are in your most inchoate form. Assuming you all reach a ripe old age, they’ll be with you until the very end, and for that reason, there is an intimacy and a familiarity that can’t possibly be available to you in any other relationship throughout your life. Certainly, people can get along without siblings. Single children do, and there are people who have irreparably estranged relationships with their siblings who live full and satisfying lives, but to have siblings and not make the most of that resource is squandering one of the greatest interpersonal resources you’ll ever have.”
- Jeffrey Kluger, The Sibling Effect
Part of me feels like driving all the way to Laguna (that’s the only existing Cinnabon branch I know of) just to U-turn and grab these babies and surprise my family. It used to be a family ‘tradition’ when my mom was still around-I think it’s about time to resurrect it. MHMMM.
