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

You are a special combination for a purpose.

Success often lies just the other side of failure.

What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.

Find the person who will love you because of your differences and not in spite of them and you have found a lover for life.

Love is always bestowed as a gift – freely, willingly and without expectation. We don’t love to be loved; we love to love.

Change. It has the power to uplift, to heal, to stimulate, surprise, open new doors, bring fresh experience and create excitement in life.

Your talent is God’s gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.

A total immersion in life offers the best classroom for learning to love.

Stop playing games. A growing relationship can only be nurtured by genuineness.

If I don’t have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.

Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter’s frost and chill, summer’s warmth is in them still.

Life is a paradise for those who love many things with a passion.

After all, the wrong is done. It is past and cannot be changed. We have only the present and the future upon which to move forward.

Loving relationships, though necessary for life, health, and growth, are among the most complicated skills.

In a crazy world, it’s only your insanity that will keep you sane.

We need not be afraid to touch, to feel, to show emotion. The easiest thing in the world is to be what you are, what you feel.

A disappointment is not generally an oversight. It might just be the best one can do the situation being what it is. The genuine error is to quit attempting.

A disappointment is not generally an oversight. It might just be the best one can do the situation being what it is. The genuine error is to quit attempting.

Life has its pains and evils-its bitter disappointments; but like a good novel and in healthful length of days, there is infinite joy in seeing the World, the most interesting of continued stories, unfold.

The music of an unhappy people, of the children of disappointment; they tell of death and suffering and unvoiced longing toward a truer world, of misty wanderings and hidden ways.

Strive for that greatness of spirit that measures life not by its disappointments but by its possibilities.

Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer – and often the supreme disappointment.

Your ability to face setbacks and disappointments without giving up will be the measure of your ability to succeed.

You will find as the children grow up that as a rule children are a bitter disappointment – their greatest object being to do precisely what their parents do not wish and have anxiously tried to prevent.