#life

"Relationships are like water. If you grab tight, clamping and clenching to gain control, you’ll lose it all. Instead, cup your hand gently, so she feels free to drink until her thirst is quenched."

"The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all."

"The thing is, you can’t always have the best of everything. Because for a life to be real, you need it all: good and bad, beach and concrete, the familiar and the unknown, big talkers and small towns."

"That wasn't love; that was stupidity."

"False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports."

"You must learn to forgive a man when he's in love. He's always a nuisance."

"If you want to find happiness, find gratitude."

"The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom."

"To Trend or Not to Trend I've had a thousand trending poems,they were rarely my best.Evoking empathy and shared feelingis the poet's only true test."

"He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves."

"Tickled Pink Today,without thinking,I filled my half-empty fish tank, to its brink.Having doubled the size of his universe,my Siamese bettais quite tickled pinkThe same thing happens when you fill my half-empty world with your love.Bai, keep pourin'!"

"Know who you are, and be it. Know what you want, and go out and get it!"

"One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness."

"I am a sacrifice bound with cords to the horns of the world's rock altar, waiting for worms. I take a deep breath, I open my eyes. Looking, I see there are worms in the horns of the altar like live maggots in amber, there are shells of worms in the rock and moths flapping at my eyes. A wind from no place rises. A sense of the real exults me; the cords loosen: I walk on my way."

"The fear of appearances is the first symptom of impotence."

"Our love was a two-person game. At least until one of us died, and the other became a murderer."

"My own life is wonderful, but if I had to live the life of someone else, I'd gladly choose that of Julia Child or Dr. Seuss: two outrageously original people, each of whom fashioned an idiosyncratic wisdom, passion for life, and sense of humor into an art form that anyone and everyone could savor."

"I do not forget any good deed done to me & I do not carry a grudge for a bad one."

"We did all the tourist crap, but I just wanted to sit in a cafe and watch people"

"Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality."