One can't run in a park without a dog or make angels in the snow without a child and there are things one can't do without a lover, so the loss of the lover is like an amputation and the patient goes into shock.

Compassion is the thing that leads you gently back to yourself.

Love is short, forgetting is long, and understanding longer still.

There are no perfect men of course, but some are more perfect than others, and we can use all of those we can get.

Anger is a passion, so it makes people feel alive and makes them feel they matter and are in charge of their lives. So people often need to renew their anger a long time after the cause of it has died, because it is a protection against helplessness and emptiness just like howling in the night. And it makes them feel less vulnerable for a little while.

It takes great generosity to accept generosity.

One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.