Wait. This was the first lesson I had learned about love. The day drags along, you make thousands of plans, you imagine every possible conversation, you promise to change your behavior in certain ways -- and you feel more and more anxious until your loved one arrives. But by then, you don't know what to say. The hours of waiting have been transformed into tension, the tension has become fear, and the fear makes you embarrassed about showing affection.

You have understood what all great painters understand: in order to forget the rules, you must know them and respect them.

The Warrior of the light knows that when somebody wants something, the whole Universe conspires in their favor.

Love is an act of faith, not an exchange

Hatred. Something almost as physical as walls, pianos, or nurses. She could almost touch the destructive energy leaking out of her body. She allowed the feeling to emerge, regardless of whether it was good or bad; she was sick of self-control, of masks, of appropriate behavior. Veronika wanted to spend her remaining two or three days of life behaving as inappropriately as she could.

Every human being has inside them something more important than him or herself - his or her Gift.

He has learned that God uses solitude to teach us how to live with other people.