- Title: I Care About Your Happiness Quotations from the Love Letters of Kahlil Gibran and Mary Haskell
- Selected by: Susan Polis Schutz
- Year Published: Seventh Printing-February 1979 (Blue Mountain Press)
- Year Purchased: I have no idea. This is a hand-me-down book from my mom.
- Source: My mom
- About: Kahlil Gibran and Mary Haskell lived at a time when communication was more meaningful and deliberate. Their love letters are intense and a bit flowery (as was typical of that period) and beautifully unrestrained. The intervening century has not dimmed their effectiveness.
- Motivation: I read everything I could get my hands on when I was growing up. This first made its way into my hands when I was 10 or 11. When I moved out as a young adult, it *accidentally* came with me. Ahem. It was well worth it, though, as one of Gibran’s poems was incorporated into my wedding vows in 2010.
- Times Read: Countless
- Random Excerpt/Page 30: “What difference does it make, whether you live in a big city or in a community of homes? The real life is within.”
- Happiness Scale: An unabashed, soppy, sentimental 10
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