If you are never alone, you cannot know yourself.

Of all the ways we have found to hurt ourselves, the worse has been through love. We are always suffering because of someone who doesn't love us, or someone who has left us, or someone who won't leave us. If we are alone, it is because no one wants us.

He unwittingly takes a false step and plunges into the abyss.

If you have a past with which you feel dissatisfied, then forget it, now. Imagine a new story for your life and believe in it. Focus only on the moments when you achieved what you desired, and that strength will help you to get what you want.

A warrior accepts defeat. He does not treat it as a matter of indifference nor does he try to make a victory of it.

You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it.

Today I am a woman torn between the terror that everything might change and the equal terror that everything might carry on exactly the same for the rest of my days.