We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.
No one has ever become poor by giving.
Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.
The fact that you are even here, alive, on this planet is a mathematical miracle, and you should not spend the time that you have being busy being miserable.
Quando il gioco è finito, il re e il pedone vanno nella stessa scatola. When the game is over, the king and the pawn go into the same box.
Only the shallow know themselves.
There is a huge amount of freedom that comes to you when you take nothing personally.
Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.
The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.
But why should you be interested in me?”
Good question. I can’t explain it myself right this moment. But maybe – just maybe – if we start getting together and talking, after a while something like Francis Lai’s soundtrack music will start playing in the background, and a whole slew of concrete reasons why I’m interested in you will line up out of nowhere. With luck, it might even snow for us.
Men are what their mothers made them.
You expected to be sad in the fall. Part of you died each year when the leaves fell from the trees and their branches were bare against the wind and the cold, wintery light. But you knew there would always be the spring, as you knew the river would flow again after it was frozen.
All hopes of eternity and all gain from the past he would have given to have her there, to be wrapped warm with him in one blanket, and sleep, only sleep. It seemed the sleep with the woman in his arms was the only necessity.