Love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.

you can muffle the drum, and you can loosen the strings of the lyre, but who shall command the skylark not to sing?

Love is not without its flaws. The stronger the love, the more it tests you. Compassion and empathy will make true love persist.

He who has not looked on Sorrow will never see Joy.

When your friend speaks his mind you fear not the 'nay' in your own mind, nor do you withhold the 'ay. And when he is silent your heart ceases not to listen to his heart; For without words, in friendship, all thoughts, all desires, all expectations are born and shared, with joy that is unacclaimed. When you part from your friend, you grieve not; For that which you love most in him may be clearer in his absence, as the mountain to the climber is clearer from the plain.

Only love and death will change all things.

The reality of the other person is not in what he reveals to you, but in what he cannot reveal to you. Therefore, if you would understand him, listen not to what he says but rather to what he does not say.