"You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are living.
Then you read a book… or you take a trip… and you discover that you are not living, that you are hibernating.
The symptoms of hibernating are easily detectable: first, restlessness.
The second symptom: absence of pleasure. That is all.
It appears like an innocuous illness. Monotony, boredom, death.

Millions live like this or die like this without knowing it.
They work in offices. They drive a car. They picnic with their families.
They raise children. And then some shock treatment takes place, a person, a book, a song, and it awakens them and saves them from death.
Some never awaken."

Anais Nin

“Home wasn't a set house, or a single town on a map.
It was wherever the people who loved you were, whenever you were together.
Not a place, but a moment, and then another, building on each other like bricks to create a solid shelter that you take with you for your entire life,
wherever you may go.”
― Sarah Dessen

One of the most important of life´s lessons is to learn independence, to understand freedom.
This means independence from attachments, from results, from opinions, and from expectations.
Breaking attachments leads to freedom, but breaking attachments does not mean abandoning a loving and meaningful relationship, a relationship that nourishes your soul.
It means ending dependency on any person or thing. Love is never a dependency.
— Brian L. Weiss