Love Is How You Stay Alive, Even

In Business People Negotiate To Win. They Negotiate To Get What They Want. Love Is Different. Love Is When You Are As Concerned About Someone Else's Situation As You Are About Your Own.

Giving To Other People Makes Me Feel Alive. Not My Car Or My House. Not What I Look Like In The Mirror. When I Give My Time, When I Can Make Someone Smile After They Were Feeling Sad.

The News Of Life Is Carried Via Telephone. A Baby's Birth, A Couple Engaged, A Tragic Car Accident On A Late Night Highway - Most Milestones Of The Human Journey, Good Or Bad, Are Foreshadowed By The Sound Of A Ringing.

I Give Myself A Good Cry If I Need It. But Then I Concentrate On The Good Things Still In My Life. I Don't Allow Myself Any More Self-pity Than That. A Little Each Every Morning, A Few Tears, And That's All.

You Have One Family, Charley. For Good Or Bad. You Have One Family. You Can’t Trade Them In. You Can’t Lie To Them. You Can’t Run Two At Once, Substituting Back And Forth. “sticking With Your Family Is What Makes It A Family.