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After a while you understand the way that things can go wrong in people's lives; you learn all the patterns and the temptations; you recognize the ways people use other people...You don't want to waste the energy, so instead you learn tolerance, and compassion and love - and distance.

We dance round in a ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and knows.

If the whole world put their problems in a pile, you'd be so happy to take yours back.

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

I am coming to terms with the fact that loving someone requires a leap of faith, and that a soft landing is never guaranteed.

Holding people away from you, and denying yourself love, that doesn't make you strong. if anything, it makes you weaker. Because you're doing it out of fear.

The truth is everybody changes every day, and some things are more devastating than others, but we never are the same. And there are two ways to deal with these changes, you either accept them, or you fight them like hell all the way.

Most things will be okay eventually, but not everything will be. Sometimes you’ll put up a good fight and lose. Sometimes you’ll hold on really hard and realize there is no choice but to let go. Acceptance is a small, quiet room.

She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just takes time.

...it is not the desire to mate every second minute of the day, it is not lying awake at night imagining that he is kissing every cranny of your body. No, don't blush, I am telling you some truths. That is just being "in love", which any fool can do. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident.

Love is a temporary madness, it erupts like volcanoes and then subsides. And when it subsides, you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion...

The way a book smells when you thumb through it. The way quiet winter air makes you feel like no one else exists. The smell of the woods after a thunderstorm. That split second before your chair tips back. The feeling right before you cry. The euphoria before the heartbreak. That moment when you wonder if they think of you the way you think of them. These things, I live for.

When you put someone on a pedestal you may find they only look down on you.

I want a soul mate who can sit me down, shut me up, tell me ten things I don’t already know, and make me laugh. I don’t care what you look like, just turn me on.

There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills.

"When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self-giving is a personal power-releasing factor."

The soul always knows what to do to heal itself. The challenge is to silence the mind.

He never judged me, never tried to fix me. His acceptance was a gift that I will spend my whole life trying to deserve.

A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world. Everyone you meet is your mirror.

It’s a troublesome world. All the people who’re in it
are troubled with troubles almost every minute.
You ought to be thankful, a whole heaping lot,
for the places and people you’re lucky you’re not.