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

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

To judge you by your failures is to cast blame upon the seasons for their inconstancy.

I said to Life, I would hear Death speak. And Life raised her voice a little higher and said, You hear him now.

I deserted the world and sought solitude because I became tired of rendering courtesy to those multitudes who believe that humility is a sort of weakness, and mercy a kind of cowardice, and snobbery a form of strength.

There are those who give and know not pain in giving, nor do they seek joy, nor give with mindfulness of virtue; They give as in yonder valley the myrtle breathes its fragrance into space.

When you look closely people are so strange & so complicated that they're actually beautiful.