But he had gone his way, the grass all mown, And I must be, as he had been - alone, As all must be, I said within my heart, Whether they work together or apart.

Loyalty is that for the lack of which your gang will shoot you without benefit of trial by jury.

If the writer does not cry, the reader does not cry.

They would not find me changed from him they knew - only more sure of all I thought was true.

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

The mind-is not the heart. I may yet live, as I know others live, To wish in vain to let go with the mind- Of cares, at night, to sleep; but nothing tells me That I need learn to let go with the heart.

I am sure I have heard this several times from places I can't recall, but it's not already in the Gaia Quotes database, so I add this profound insight from the fields of psychological healing and spiritual evolution. It sure has helped me.