La vie est vaine,Un peu d’amour,Un peu de haine,Et puis—Bonjour!La vie est brève:Un peu d’espoir,Un peu de rèveEt puis—Bon soir! Ah, brief is Life,Love’s short sweet way,With dreamings rife,And then—Good-day!And Life is vain—Hope’s vague delight,Grief’s transient pain,And then—Good-night. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Do you remember what you're supposed to do now? Kiss the palm of your hand and press it against your heart. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
The flowers are for the woman I glimpsed for just a moment the other night before she ran away with tears brimming in her eyes." His eyes drifted over the becoming blush of her cheeks, wondering why it was suddenly there. "That's the woman I see when I look at you. That's the woman I want to get to know tonight. Do you think she might be joining us? Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Over the years I have felt many things leave me.People do not change, but yet somehow time alters everything.As the years roll on people are not quite as forgiving, nor quite as kind, hopeful, loving. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
My whole marriage to her, I finally realized, was a placeholder, leading me to this very day. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
When we squander the moments of our lives, Peter, we are spending the most valuable currency. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
What we all share in common - the real reason for this book - is a desire to love better. To love ourselves in the midst of great pain, and to love another when the pain of this life grows too large for one person to hold. This book offers the skills needed to make that kind of love a reality. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Every loss is valid. And every loss is not the same. You can't flatten the landscape of grief and say that everything is equal. It isn't. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
True comfort in grief is in acknowledging the pain, not in trying to make it go away. Companionship, not correction, is the way forward. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>