“It is always taking care, but it is difficult, because at times to take care of her is also to cause her pain.”

“This is generous, for to be close to her pain has always felt like a privilege to me, even though pain could be defined as that which we typically aim to avoid.”

“Were only given as much as the heart can endure, What does not kill you makes you stronger, Our sorrows provide us with the lessons we most need to learn: these are the kinds of phrases that enrage...”

“After my friend's accident I take care of her. It is always taking care, but it is difficult, because at times to take care of her is also to cause her pain.”

“Mostly I have felt myself becoming a servant of sadness. I am still looking for the beauty in that.”

“It will not say, 'Isn't X beautiful?' Such demands are murderous to beauty.”

“I was a king for a while. I wasn't a very good one. I wanted all kinds of things. I wanted, well, you know. Power. Glory. To be feared. All that good stuff. But you know what? When the gaiaphage di...”

“What is hard work? It takes strength, energy, and stress to truly care about others enough to place oneself last, but it is easy to wrap oneself up and selfishly scramble on the heads of others.”

“It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.”

“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”

“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”

“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.”

“Pain is not the same as suffering. Left to itself, the body discharges pain spontaneously, letting go of it the moment that the underlying cause is healed. Suffering is pain that we hold on to. It ...”

“In pleasant peace and security How suddenly the soul in a man begins to die He shall look up above the stalled oxen Envying the cruel falcon, And dig under the straw for a stone To bruise himself on.”

“It is amazing, though, what pains your subconscious will undergo in achieve sustainable peace.”