When our focus is on seeking, perfecting, or clinging to romance, the charge is often generated by instability, rather than by an authentic connection with another person.

We cannot simply forgive and forget, nor should we.

Ultimately, we forgive others in order to free ourselves.

Real forgiveness in close relationships is never easy. It can’t be rushed or engineered.

We nurture our sense of connection with the larger whole, noticing that the whole is only as healthy as its smallest part.

The difference between a life laced through with frustration and one sustained by happiness depends on whether it is motivated by self-hatred or by real love for oneself.

To greet the present is to part with the past and future.

You can't really know what you are made of until you are tested.

There are friends, but they are people to spend time with, not people to share time with.

As far as it’s ideal that you get helped by people, it doesn't mean they are compelled to make your dreams come true without your efforts.

If you find you are traveling on wrong road, turn to the right direction.

Then he looked back to me, and smiled. It was a terrible expression, filled with edges, and with knives.

Suffocate despair with prayers.

If deep in our hearts we suspect that God does not love us and cannot manage our affairs as well as we can, we certainly will not submit to His discipline.

A youth with his first cigar makes himself sick a youth with his first girl makes everybody sick.

Whatever you may be sure of be sure of this - that you are dreadfully like other people.