He suffered much, but he understood the mystery of pain: he knew that tears make all things shine.

If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were...

Love... It surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.

Many of us spend our whole lives running from feeling with the mistaken belief that you can not bear the pain. But you have already borne the pain. What you have not done is feel all you are beyond that pain.

... joy and sorrow are inseparable. . . together they come and when one sits alone with you . . . remember that the other is asleep upon your bed.

Yea, I shall return with the tide.