He was quiet. I said nothing, hoping that maybe, for once, he'd stop pretenting he was okay. Then I could, too. That we could both forget the roles that had so long bound us.

But the problem with looking back when you should be walking ahead is that you usually end up walking into something that hurts.

But sometimes it's the sunshine that frightens us more than the big black shadows.

When you find someone who makes you smile and laugh, when you find someone who makes you feel safe…you shouldn’t let that person go just because you’re afraid.

I waited for a long time and there was nothing but the pain of wanting something I couldn't seem to find.

You don’t have to be sad to miss someone and wish they were still in your life.

Good things, by their nature, are fleeting. It’s those that bring us grief that linger.

Love is always real, even when it doesn’t last.

All men have the stars, but they are not the same things for different people.

Jealousy smells like the water in the bottom of a flower vase after the flowers have died.

When everything changes we learn who we really are. What’s really important. What we want most. We discover the truth in moments of disarray.

To have understanding is not to be religious

Everyman's life lies within the present for the past is spent and done with and the future is uncertain.

The darker the walls,the brighter the sky outside.

Human relations are built on feeling, not on reason or knowledge. And feeling is not an exact science; like all spiritual qualities, it has the vagueness of greatness about it.

We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.

Envy is destroyed by true friendship, as coquetry by true love.

We didn't wish -- wishes are wasted... We didn't hope -- because our future was inevitable... And we didn't pray -- we were on our own.

Our daily existence requires both closeness and distance, the wholeness of self, the wholeness of intimacy.

I have this tattooed on my left side! I love the saying and it's a perfect description of Karma, don't judge/discriminate and don't do to someone what you wouldn't want done to you.

The child who has been taught to make an accurate elevation, plan, and section of a pint pot has had an admirable training in accuracy of eye and hand.