“Passion and satisfaction go hand in hand, and without them, any happiness is only temporary, because there’s nothing to make it last.”

I know that somehow, every step I took since the moment I could walk was a step towards finding you.

Passion is passion. It’s the excitement between the tedious spaces, and it doesn’t matter where it’s directed.

You are, and always have been, my dream.

God’s voice is usually nothing more than a whisper, and you have to listen very carefully to hear it.

The saddest people I’ve ever met in life are the ones who don’t care deeply about anything at all.

Loving someone is about giving, not receiving.

Every couple needs to argue now and then. Just to prove that the relationship is strong enough to survive.

Every couple has ups and downs, every couple argues, and that’s the thing, you’re a couple, and couples can’t function without trust.

Love is fragile. And we’re not always its best caretakers. We just muddle through and do the best we can. And hope this fragile thing survives against all odds.

In our time together, you claimed a special place in my heart, one I’ll carry with me forever and that no one can ever replace.

Listen to me, I’m in love with you. If you stay I promise there’s no safer place in the world than with me. You don’t have to be scared. I love you, please stay.

I want to wake up with you beside me in the mornings. I want to spend my evenings looking at you across the dinner table. I want to share every mundane detail of my day with you and hear every detail of yours. I want to laugh with you and fall asleep with you in my arms.

When I look in the mirror, I know I’m looking at someone who isn’t sure she deserves to be loved at all.

You’re going to come across people in your life who will say all the right words at all the right times. But in the end, it’s always their actions you should judge them by. It’s actions, not words, that matter.

Dreams are always crushing when they don’t come true.

Tell me everything. Write everything down. That way, we will be with each other all the time even if we’re not with each other at all.

Tomorrow is our treasure. Tomorrow is our pleasure.

Because of the person I am I won’t be knocked down — ever. They can say I’m fat, I’m thin, I’m whatever, and I’ll never stop. I just won’t. I’ve got too much to do. I’ve too much to be happy about.

And let the truth be your delight proclaim it, but with a certain congeniality.

From Russia I didn’t bring out a single happy memory, only sad, tragic ones. The nightmare of pogroms, the brutality of Cossacks charging young Socialists, fear, shrieks of terror.

I’m very happy with the way I write. I think I do it good. But I’ve never really considered myself a writer.

You can’t be creative when you’re completely happy.

Our joy in Him may be a fluctuating thing: His joy in us knows no change.

The problem with a goals-first mentality is that you’re continually putting happiness off until the next milestone.