The death of a beloved is an amputation.
C.S. Lewis
The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before. That's the deal.
Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.
You can't get second things by putting them first; you can get second things only by putting first things first.
Laughter is the best medicine against a stiff neck, especially if the stiff neck is caused by your own illusions.
To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and you'll see there's a chance it will be taken from you.
Courage, dear heart.
You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.
Friendship is born in that moment when one man says to another 'What! You too? I thought I was the only one.
Friendship... is born at that moment when one person says to another, 'What! You too? I thought I was the only one.
No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
Joy is the serious business of Heaven.