The search can be as interesting as the fear you feel, as long as you overcome that fear.

Anyone who has known happiness will never again be able humbly to accept sadness.

You are your own best friend. Never ever, put yourself down.

A warrior accepts defeat. He does not treat it as a matter of indifference, nor does he attempt to transform it into a victory. The pain of defeat is bitter to him; he suffers at indifference and becomes desperate with loneliness. After all this has passed, he licks his wounds and begins everything anew. A warrior knows that war is made of many battles: he goes on

solitude is not absence of love, but its complement

Be like the fountain that overflows, not like the cistern that merely contains.

As he looked up at the clouds or down at the precipice, he realized that this woman was the most important thing in his life; that she was the explanation, the sole reason for the existence of those rocks, that sky, that winter. If she were not there with him, it wouldn't matter if all the angels of heaven came flying down to comfort him--Paradise would make no sense.