“As soon as you stop making everyone else responsible for your happiness, the happier youll be.”

“When we get too comfortable in our routine we stop challenging ourselves. Complacency is the silent dream killer.”

“Learn to be brave and adventurous because youll never discover your place in the world, if youre too afraid to leave your own backyard.”

“Even when we do not actively participate in our destiny, we are still on a chosen path. Life has a way of making decisions for us.”

“Being there when things are easy is one of the benefits of being a good friend. Being there when things get difficult is one of the tests.”

“Everyone keeps telling me that time heals all wounds, but no one can tell me what Im supposed to do right now. Right now I cant sleep. Its right now that I cant eat. Right now I still hear his voic...”

“Children betrayed their parents by becoming their own people.”

“But marrying within one's own family can get monotonous. One has heard all the same family stories, knows all the jokes and all the same recipes. No novelty.”

“She took comfort in the familiarity of his smell, knowing that if she lost all her possessions and her home, at least she would have her family.”

“Of course it would be hard. But I remembered what my nurseryman grandfather used to say when I didnt want to go to school: half the work in the world was done by people who didnt feel so good today.”

“I've never minded it," he went on. "Being lost, that is. I had always thought one could not truly be lost if one knew one's own heart. But I fear I may be lost without knowing yours.”

“There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison”

“Only once in your life, I truly believe, you find someone who can completely turn your world around. You tell them things that youve never shared with another soul and they absorb everything you sa...”

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”

“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there i...”