“2. Overcommitment and time pressure are the greatest destroyers of marriages. It takes time to develop any friendship...whether with a loved one or with God Himself.” GodTimeFriendshipTheOneDestroyersToItALovedOfGreatestDevelopWithAreMarriagesOrAnyHimselfTakesWhetherTime PressureOvercommitment Book:Life on the Edge: The Next Generation's Guide to a Meaningful Future Source: Life on the Edge: The Next Generation's Guide to a Meaningful Future
“From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked. One fig was a husband and a happy home and children, another fig was a famous poet and another fig was a brilliant professor, ... I wanted each and everyone of them, but choosing one meant losing all the rest, and, as I sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and, one by one, they plopped to the ground at my feet.” Decision MakingDilemmasTime Pressure Book:the bell jar Source: the bell jar