Sentimental Journey is ostensibly about the heart wanting what it wants when it wants it. And it’s about the yearning, second-guessing reminiscences that at some point down the road may accompany the choices we make.

Love is fulfilling. Yet what it inspires in us is not an antecedent truth born of nature and culture but the creative excitement of who we may become. It is a splendor. A receptivity. An attending to. A bond. A promise.

Fifty years ago “It’s a dog life” meant a miserably unhappy existence. Certainly not today, certainly not in America.

The song, “As Time Goes By,” suggests that the realization of all human ambition depends on the same old story, a win in the fight for love and glory.

Independence can be our metaphorical sword, our means to fulfillment — to a private and public way of life that will make full use of the body, mind and soul.

Listen to your autonomous voice, and find the happiness you forsake when you are too distracted to be absorbed in something you love.

Think of your private or subjective voice being your authentic self. It is the voice of a self that is easily compromised or lost, unfortunately. You may not know exactly when this subjective voice started but no doubt you were very young—just beginning to think. And it’s a voice whose narrative of hope and fear and desire has continued every day since.

We tend to think that we’re objective — that we see things as they really are. But, in fact, we don’t. Let me tell you what I mean.

A rat race is a way of life in which people are caught up in a fiercely competitive struggle for wealth, power, position, headlines, etc.