With my eyes closed, I would touch a familiar book and draw its fragrance deep inside me. This was enough to make me happy.
It’s not love that hurts, it’s the person providing it! You must figure out who is worth the pain? Because only in a fairy tales love is perfect without conflict.
Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
I’m not going to spend my life chasing people. You want to leave? Fine then, go ahead. Because I’m done with chasing and caring for people who never cared. Nothing last and people change. I’ve learned love is hard and life is strange.
I am convinced that attitude is the key to success or failure in almost any of life’s endeavors. Your attitude—your perspective, your outlook, how you feel about yourself, how you feel about other people—determines your priorities, your actions, your values. Your attitude determines how you interact with other people and how you interact with yourself.
Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand and Stars, 1939
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
Oscar Wilde, De Profundis, 1905
We spend our whole lives worrying about the future. Planning for the future. Trying to predict the futrure. As if figuring it out will somehow cushion the blow. But the future is always changing. The future is the home of our deepest fears… and our wildest hopes. But one thing is certain, when it finally reveals itself, the future is never the way we imagined it
I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me. I love you for the part of me that you bring out.
The reason most people fail instead of succeed is that they trade in what they want most for what they want at the moment.
Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word
happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is
far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.
Carl Gustav Jung