Yes, you can lose somebody overnight, yes, your whole life can be turned upside down. Life is short. It can come and go like a feather in the wind.
Tragedy in life normally comes with betrayal and compromise, and trading on your integrity and not having dignity in life. That's really where failure comes.
Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It's the foundational principle that holds all relationships.
There is no force like success, and that is why the individual makes all effort to surround himself throughout life with the evidence of it as of the individual, so should it be of the nation.
When you're passionate about something, you want it to be all it can be. But in the endgame of life, I fundamentally believe the key to happiness is letting go of that idea of perfection.
Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.
The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
Our heavenly Father understands our disappointment, suffering, pain, fear, and doubt. He is always there to encourage our hearts and help us understand that He's sufficient for all of our needs. When I accepted this as an absolute truth in my life, I found that my worrying stopped.
I wanted to write about the moment when your addictions no longer hide the truth from you. When your whole life breaks down. That's the moment when you have to somehow choose what your life is going to be about.
I never regret anything. Because every little detail of your life is what made you into who you are in the end.
Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
You can't live your life blaming your failures on your parents and what they did or didn't do for you. You're dealt the cards that you're dealt. I realised it was a waste of time to be angry at my parents and feel sorry for myself.
Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.
What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.
The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself - and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is.
Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.
Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'
We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.
I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.
For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.
Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.
Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war love is a growing up.
Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?
Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.
Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.