"The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing, and becomes nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn and feel and change and grow and love and live.”
“A loving relationship is one in which the loved one is free to be himself -- to laugh with me, but never at me; to cry with me, but never because of me; to love life, to love himself, to love being loved. Such a relationship is based upon freedom and can never grow in a jealous heart.”
" Love yourself—accept yourself—forgive yourself—and be good to yourself, because without you the rest of us are without a source of many wonderful things.”
"We seem to gain wisdom more readily through our failures than through our successes. We always think of failure as the antithesis of success, but it isn't. Success often lies just the other side of failure.”
"Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.”
“Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.”
"Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.”
“Life lived for tomorrow will always be just a day away from being realized.”
“We need others. We need others to love and we need to be loved by them. There is no doubt that without it, we too, like the infant left alone, would cease to grow, cease to develop, choose madness and even death.”
“The hardest battle you're ever going to fight is the battle to be just you.”
“The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position.”
“Happiness and love are just a choice away.”
“Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.”
“Risks must be taken, because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.”
“Time has no meaning in itself unless we choose to give it significance.”
“Most of us are pawns in a game of love we don't understand.”
"Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations. Don't over-analyze your relationships. Stop playing games. A growing relationship can only be nurtured by genuineness.”
“What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.”
"Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.”
“Love withers with predictability; its very essence is surprise and amazement. To make love a prisoner of the mundane is to take its passion and lose it forever.”
"When we cling to pain we end up punishing ourselves.”
"Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.”
“I believe that you control your destiny, that you can be what you want to be. You can also stop and say, 'No, I won't do it, I won't behave his way anymore. I'm lonely and I need people around me, maybe I have to change my methods of behaving,' and then you do it.”
"Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time... It tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other.”
"No amount of time can erase the memory of a good cat, and no amount of masking tape can ever totally remove his fur from your couch.”
“Love is not some complex, mystical abstraction. It is something accessible and human that we learn through our everyday experience, as often at times of failure as in moments of ecstasy.”
“It is difficult for some people to accept that love is a choice. This seems to run counter to the generally accepted theory of romantic love which expounds that love is inborn and as such requires no more than to accept it.”
