Loving someone means helping them to be more themselves, which can be different from being what you’d like them to be, although often they turn out the same

The people in your life are like the pillars on your porch. Sometimes they hold you up, and sometimes they lean on you. Sometimes it's enough to know they are standing by.

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always cost more.

The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

One can never change the past, only the hold it has on you, and while nothing in your life is reversible, you can reverse it nevertheless.

One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Most women would rather have someone whisper their name at optimum moments than rocket with contractions to the moon.

Our strength is in our dreams, and those who do not dare to dream damn themselves.

Friends are people who help you be more yourself, more the person you are intended to be.

Friends are like windows through which you see out into the world and back into yourself. If you don't have friends you see much less than you otherwise might.

I don't say goodbye very easily, Anna. Not gracefully or prettily.Goodbye tears your heart out and leaves it a feast for carrion birds who happen by.

The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.

Every success story has a secret, Even if it’s a love story.

We all have the choice as to how we want to create our world.

Cherish your own emotions and never under-value them. We are not here to do what has already been done.

Evil is done without effort, naturally, it's destiny; good is always the product of skill.

Ninety-nine one-hundredths of our lives we are mere hedgers and ditchers, but from time to time we meet with reminders of our destiny.

We're only as needy as our unmet needs.

I'd like to divide myself in order to see, among these mountains, each and every flower of every cherry tree.

We Can Only Exist By Taking Our Minds Off The Fact That We Exist