“Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations.”

Definition of a relationship – an enduring, mutually-agreed upon connection or union, which fulfills certain needs of the individuals involved and the society in which they live.

The hardest battle you’re ever going to fight is the battle to be just you.

I’d like to be remembered for being a good, kind, loving, gentle man who attempted to live wisely, and who cared a lot.

Don’t hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

It’s not enough to have lived. We should be determined to live for something.

Value yourself. The only people who appreciate a doormat are people with dirty shoes.

Loving memories last forever, I am at a loss for words during this sorrowful time. Please know that I am thinking of you and praying for peace and comfort.

The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing, and becomes nothing.

A loving relationship is one in which the loved one is free to be himself – to laugh with me, but never at me; to cry with me, but never because of me; to love life, to love himself, to love being loved. Such a relationship is based upon freedom and can never grow in a jealous heart.

What love we’ve given, we’ll have forever. What love we fail to give, will be lost for all eternity.

Love creates an “us” without destroying the “me”.

Even after centuries of human interacting, children still continue to rebel against their parents and siblings.

When we give ourselves in love we become our most vulnerable. We are never safe. We become open to disappointment and hurt.

I believe that you control your destiny, that you can be what you want to be.

This loving person is a person who abhors waste – waste of time, waste of human potential. How much time we waste. As if we were going to live forever.

Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.

Their minds have met. Hearts, might never.

To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.

To pretend angels do not exist because they are invisible is to believe we never sleep because we don’t see ourselves sleeping.

Even if you look for peace in the places you won the war, you will not find any.

You have to be relentless in your pursuit. Embrace the pain, embrace the struggle, after all, the most pleasurable things in life often require pain.

We set forth our petitions before god, not in order to make known to him our needs and desires, but rather so that we ourselves may realize that in the things it is necessary to turn to god for help.

The will determines itself; it should not be described as blind, any more than vision should be described as deaf.

Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder.