Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that and living alone wont either for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken or betrayed or left or hurt or death brushes near let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could.

I heard what you said. Im not the silly romantic you think. I dont want the heavens or the shooting stars. I dont want gemstones or gold. I have those things already. I wanta steady hand. A kind soul. I want to fall asleep and wake knowing my heart is safe. I want to love and be loved.

I love you without knowing how or when or from where. I love you simply without problems or pride I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this in which there is no I or you so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close.

We live and breathe words. .... It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest with me and I with them. Reading your words what you wrote how you were lonely sometimes and afraid but always brave the way you saw the world its colors and textures and sounds I felt--I felt the way you thought hoped felt dreamt. I felt I was dreaming and thinking and feeling with you. I dreamed what you dreamed wanted what you wanted--and then I realized that truly I just wanted you.

They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world someone to love something to do and something to hope for.

Some women choose to follow men and some women choose to follow their dreams. If youre wondering which way to go remember that your career will never wake up and tell you that it doesnt love you anymore.

Dumbledore watched her fly away and as her silvery glow faded he turned back to Snape and his eyes were full of tears.After all this timeAlways said Snape.

The opposite of love is not hate its indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness its indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy its indifference. And the opposite of life is not death its indifference.

True love is rare and its the only thing that gives life real meaning.

Promise YourselfTo be so strong that nothingcan disturb your peace of mind.To talk health happiness and prosperityto every person you meet.To make all your friends feelthat there is something in themTo look at the sunny side of everythingand make your optimism come true.To think only the best to work only for the bestand to expect only the best.To be just as enthusiastic about the success of othersas you are about your own.To forget the mistakes of the pastand press on to the greater achievements of the future.To wear a cheerful countenance at all timesand give every living creature you meet a smile.To give so much time to the improvement of yourselfthat you have no time to criticize others.To be too large for worry too noble for anger too strong for fearand too happy to permit the presence of trouble.To think well of yourself and to proclaim this fact to the worldnot in loud words but great deeds.To live in faith that the whole world is on your sideso long as you are true to the best that is in you.