Soul mates may be linked, but fight to separate, causing wounds and confusion. They teach what no one else can.

Truth and integrity must be so rare these days that it confuses people when they hear it.

There is the purity of love, harmonious in every way, but not meant for a lifetime, and then there is the steady love of commitment - no less real but completely different. She had both.

Darling, if I take your breath away, I will give you mine.

We love because we can lose. If there was no threat of separation, no death to shake us to our core, we probably wouldn't love much at all.

Connecting with someone is not necessarily a bond with a significant other, or even a friend, but can be the indefinable - perhaps the rarest and most precious thing in life to find at all.

Even "meant to be" takes work.

I'd rather be befriended as an aimless lost soul than be befriended for adornment, gain or goal.

Am I a friend or a prospect? Imagine how much kinder life would be if people put as much effort into befriending others instead of trying to sell them something.

Where are the memories that held us together? Where are the dreams that were yet to come? I'm afraid to be happy. I shouldn't be happy. If I'm happy without you does that mean I've told you goodbye?

One of the disadvantages to having a choice is the inevitability to hang oneself on freedoms rope.

You will never be able to go to the east if you follow people who are on the way that leads to the west.

Lila cringed at the ghost of Barron's words, a memory with edges still too sharp to touch.

Some of the experiences endured by human beings on this earth are virtually unbelievable.

A Photographer is limited to some types of Photography. An Artist is able to do any types of photography. It's just a matter of choice and feelings.

Logic helps us to strip off the outward disguise of things, and to behold and judge of them in their own nature.

Clearly, a civilization that feels guilty for everything it is and does will lack the energy and conviction to defend itself.

I always thought that being at Time and tweaking your bosses and exploiting your expense account was just fun. Just joyous.

We must allow the Word of God to confront us, to disturb our security, to undermine our complacency and to overthrow our patterns of thought and behavior.

Because I come from such a close family, my natural instinct is to marry and have kids as soon as possible.

[Introverts,] the world needs you and it needs the things you carry. So I wish you the best of all possible journeys and the courage to speak softly.