This is where it all begins. Everything starts here today.

Youll get over it Its the clichs that cause the trouble. To lose someone you love is to alter your life for ever. You dont get over it because it is the person you loved. The pain stops there are new people but the gap never closes. How could it The particularness of someone who mattered enough to grieve over is not made anodyne by death. This hole in my heart is in the shape of you and no-one else can fit it. Why would I want them to

It takes courage to love but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and giving out nothing receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death.

Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.

We waste time looking for the perfect lover instead of creating the perfect love.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

Promise me youll never forget me because if I thought you would Id never leave.

It is a curious thought but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.

The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.

Its probably not just by chance that Im alone. It would be very hard for a man to live with me unless hes terribly strong. And if hes stronger than I Im the one who cant live with him. Im neither smart nor stupid but I dont think Im a run-of-the-mill person. Ive been in business without being a businesswoman Ive loved without being a woman made only for love. The two men Ive loved I think will remember me on earth or in heaven because men always remember a woman who caused them concern and uneasiness. Ive done my best in regard to people and to life without precepts but with a taste for justice.