“Every word I write is crude and weak when it comes to conveying you how much I appreciate you.”

Enough of this. The next one I love will return my passion.

These thoughts will kill me if I don’t express them.

Your sorrowful beauty can soften a stone, and dampen the eyes of a god.

Look beyond their words. A whole world lies in what people never say.

The only thing that scares me more than standing out is not standing out at all.

Find your home. You’ll know it instantly; it will be the place you never wish to flee from.

Just be a lily, blooming in the dying waste of a choking world.

How do you use so many words to say nothing at all?

One day, you’ll leave. And my heart will close like a weeping ipomoea never to open again.

The best people give more to the world than they can ever hope to get from it.

Simplify your life. You deserve peace. We make life complicated. On its own, life is simple.

Wisdom is the most expensive thing in existence.

Your pupils expanded like twin universes, engulfing my emptiness.

If the wind itself turned to silk, singing ballads in my lungs, it couldn’t even hope to match the softness of your touch.

Oh, you fool. You turned cold and stopped loving when the world needed it most.

The warmth is spring is near. It smells of hope and cheer. The budding bulbs of daffodils will end the endless fear.

Adversity is the state in which man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.

I admire the inner peace I found.

The best companion and helper is admirable morals.

When a man says to me, ‘Let us work together in the great cause you have undertaken, and let me be your companion and aid, for I admire you more than I have ever admired any other woman,’ then I shall say, ‘I am yours truly’; but he must ask me to be his equal, not his slave.

Admire as much as you can. Most people do not admire enough.

Envy someone an’ it pulls you down. Admire them and it builds you up. Which makes more sense?

By far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities.

That sculpture is more admirable than painting for the reason that it contains relief and painting does not is completely false.