The suffering of a loved one was in many ways worse than one's one suffering because it left one feeling so very helpless.

Why do I want to run from happiness?

But only a person in the depths of despair neglected to look beyond winter to the spring that inevitably followed, bringing back color and life and hope.

I do not admire greatness that has no substance.

The worst thing about loneliness is that it brings one face to face with oneself.

I am free, you see," she said, "to love or to withhold love. Love and dependence need no longer be the same thing to me. I am free to love. that is why I love you and it is the way I love you. If you have come here, Kit, because you think you owe me something, because you believe I might crumble without your protection, then go away again with my blessing and find happiness with someone else." "I love you," he said again.

And of course the word love has many shades of meaning, as do many, many of the words in our living, breathing language