If you cannot afford yourself any luxuries for the time being, at least offer yourself the one priceless luxury no one can take away from you – your time

when you know that writing your own book of life is so difficult to begin with, the least you can do for someone else, is to try to read the pages of a person rather than skip through the chapters.

As any distance we take from things give us an outside perspective, so does taking a geographical distance—offering us a new vantage point over our lives.

Some may decide to build homes somewhere new, and others have homes that await them. Like a break in a relationship, we simply needed some time apart to be better for the future.

A girl who travels has relationships that are based not on security, but on sincerity

When coming back, we may notice we have changed because others haven’t.

While the people of Madrid seem to have resigned to selling almost anything - the one thing they have never given up on so far - is time. It is the one commodity that is never sold and always shared.

If we are with someone out of choice, we should act accordingly, and choose to communicate rather than deteriorate.

Don’t just love a person for the image, idea or concept of them, but love them for every fantastically weird and twisted details that makes them up.

As our body journeys through life, and life journeys on our body….life will leave marks on us too. From the creases of our wrinkles to the birthmarks on our bodies to the tattoos we decide to place.

The darkness that follows a sunset is never so dark that it can change the inevitability of a sunrise.

I love my animal allies and am grateful for their support. I accept it.

Oh soul, you worry too much. Your arms are heavy with treasures of all kinds.

We can do what we wish, but we can only wish what we must.

The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other well.

In a long race, if I'm worried about fatigue, my concentration is the first thing to go.

WANT shows up in conversation - EXPECTATION shows up in behavior.

A good designer must rely on experience, on precise, logic thinking; and on pedantic exactness. No magic will do.

When it came to using elements of your personal life in your work, my mother was the master, or the mistress. There were three or four songs she wrote about my father - songs about failed love.

Plenty and peace breed cowards; hardness ever of hardiness is mother.