The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose.

It takes a minute to have a crush on someone, an hour to like someone, and a day to love someone... but it takes a lifetime to forget someone.

They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve.

Then it is also in my heart to be worthy of your hate.

Let there be spaces in your togetherness...just as strings of a lute dance alone though they quiver with the same music.

Much of your pain is self-chosen.

When you have solved all the mysteries of life you long for death, for it is but another mystery of life.