If you've never eaten while crying you don t know what life tastes like. - By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Focus on your strengths, not your weaknesses.Focus on your character, not your reputation.Focus on your blessings, not your misfortunes. - By Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

Most everything you think you know about me is nothing more than memories. - By Haruki Murakami, A Wild Sheep Chase

At first I did not love you, Jude; that I own. When I first knew you I merely wanted you to love me. I did not exactly flirt with you; but that inborn craving which undermines some women's morals almost more than unbridled passion--the craving to attract and captivate, regardless of the injury it may do the man--was in me; and when I found I had caught you, I was frightened. And then--I don't know how it was-- I couldn't bear to let you go--possibly to Arabella again--and so I got to love you, Jude. But you see, however fondly it ended, it began in the selfish and cruel wish to make your heart ache for me without letting mine ache for you. - By Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure

Life is neither static nor unchanging. With no individuality, there can be no change, no adaptation and, in an inherently changing world, any species unable to adapt is also doomed. - By Jean M. Auel

The practice of love offers no place of safety. We risk loss, hurt, pain. We risk being acted upon by forces outside our control. - By bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions