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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.

It’s weird to feel someone’s attention on you that way, like you’re the only thing in the world they’re listening to. Most of the time people are distracted, or just thinking about what they’re going to say next.

Man must not attempt to dispel the ambiguity of his being but, on the contrary, accept the task of realizing it.

Some changes look negative on the surface but you will soon realize that space is being created in your life for something new to emerge.

You can’t solve a problem on the same level that it was created. You have to rise above it to the next level.

Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.

Forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future. Give everyone a smile. Spend so much time improving yourself that you have no time left to criticize others. Be too big for worry and too noble for anger.

And to the casual observer it looks like I have moved on since I go around wearing my little happy mask all day. I smile and laugh and carry on like my heart’s still in one piece, but beneath it all, I am dying.

One ought to hold
on to one’s heart;
for if one lets it go,
one soon loses control
of the head too.