“At the heart of all anger, all grudges, and all resentment, you'll always find a fear that hopes to stay anonymous.”

“If the tree doesn't hug you back, it's not a problem with the tree, it's a problem with your heart.”

“Never be afraid to cry. Sometimes, nothing can cleanse the heart more than a few wet tears.”

“Fears and worries originate in the mind. Love and joy originate from the soul.”

“Your words, your thoughts, your imagination: powerful tools. Remember that and use them wisely.”

“Life is not something that happens to us, Life happens through us.”

“Say youll marry me when I come back or, before God, I wont go. Ill stay around here and play a guitar under your window every night and sing at the top of my voice and compromise you, so youll have...”

“He hated being filled with terror. It was embarrassing.”

“The weekend break had begun with the usual resentment and had continued with half-repressed ill humour. It was, of course, his fault. He had been more ready to hurt his wife's feelings and deprive ...”

“You will be a different person after the storm, because the storm will heal you from your perfection.”

“Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.”

“In his forty-third year William Stoner learned what others, much younger, had learned before him: that the person one loves at first is not the person one loves at last, and that love is not an end...”

“I feel like every project I work on is a dream project, so long as I am learning.”

“Love, too, has to be learned.”

“Every pain is a lesson.”