“If you suddenly and unexpectedly feel joy, don't hesitate. Give in to it. There are plenty of lives and whole towns destroyed or about to be. We are not wise, and not very often kind. And much can never be redeemed. Still life has some possibility left. Perhaps this is its way of fighting back, that sometimes something happened better than all the riches or power in the world. It could be anything, but very likely you notice it in the instant when love begins. Anyway, that's often the case. Anyway, whatever it is, don't be afraid of its plenty. Joy is not made to be a crumb.” IfsWorldWayGivingFeelsKindMadeStillsSometimesWholeJoyFightingLeftLove IsCasesWiseHappenedPossibilityTownsRichesDestroyedPlentyInstantRedeemedCrumbsStill LifeFighting Back Book:Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver Source: Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
“For sex to be wholly satisfying, we must have at least as much concern for a partner as for self - a requirement that doesn't live comfortably alongside the exhortation to 'do your own thing.' In the end, we are left with an extraordinarily heightened set of expectations about the possibilities in human relationships that lives side by side with disillusion that, for many, borders on despair.” HumansEndsSelfLeftSexSidesPossibilityDespairExpectationsConcernPartnersBordersSatisfyingRequirementsHuman RelationsHuman RelationshipsDisillusion Book:Erotic Wars: What Happened to the Sexual Revolution? Source: Erotic Wars: What Happened to the Sexual Revolution?