If love makes you sad, you acquire a little depth, a little compassion. If it makes you happy, you learn how to be joyous. Every relationship should color your soul to a certain degree, don't you think? Every friendship, every love affair - each one should build up the chambers of your heart the way a sea creature builds the chamber of his shell.

You have not traveled enough," she said. "Or you'd know that every journey makes its own map across your heart.

He is so kind that he makes me search my soul to find new ways to be compassionate to others.

Everybody's afraid of love, because love is what hurts the most.

A truth that no one knows is still the truth.

I was Amazement--I was Desire--I was Ecstasy and Rapture and the slightest bit of Greed.

I've remembered that most of life is about small, essential connections, so unobtrusive, so elastic, that you scarcely realize they're actually holding you together. The big ones-the great, grand emotional bonds-those are the ones that break, the ones that fail you, the ones that give way and send you careening toward the foot of the bleak and jagged canyon. It's the tough, gnarled, unadorned ties that really do bind, that never let you fall all the way down into darkness.