Isabel Allende

"Perhaps we are in this world to search for love, find it and lose it, again and again. With each love, we are born anew, and with each love that ends we collect a new wound. I am covered with proud scars."

"When love exists, nothing else matters, not life’s predicaments, not the fury of the years, not a physical winding down or scarcity of opportunity."

Isabel Allende

Jim Morrison

"A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself-and especially to feel, or not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at any moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is."

"People are afraid of themselves, of their own reality; their feelings most of all. People talk about how great love is, but that’s bullshit. Love hurts. Feelings are disturbing. People are taught that pain is evil and dangerous. How can they deal with love if they’re afraid to feel? Pain is meant to wake us up. People try to hide their pain. But they’re wrong. Pain is something to carry, like a radio. You feel your strength in the experience of pain. It’s all in how you carry it. That’s what matters. Pain is a feeling. Your feelings are a part of you. Your own reality. If you feel ashamed of them, and hide them, you’re letting society destroy your reality. You should stand up for your right to feel your pain."

"Listen, real poetry doesn't say anything; it just ticks off the possibilities. Opens all doors. You can walk through anyone that suits you."

"The world we suggest is a new wild west. A sensuous evil world. Strange and haunting, the path of the sun…"

"There are no laws, there are no rules, just grab your friend and love him."

"No eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn."

"The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can't be any large-scale revolution until there's a personal revolution, on an individual level. It's got to happen inside first."

Paul Leppin

"She shuddered because she was seized--suddenly and almost hauntingly--by the knowledge that love was magic, more wonderful than all that had gone before, deep, painful, and inescapable..."

Paul Leppin

On being strong

"Sometimes the slightest things change the directions of our lives, the merest breath of a circumstance, a random moment that connects like a meteorite striking the earth. Lives have swiveled and changed direction on the strength of a chance remark."

Bryce Courtenay

"Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world."

Harriet Tubman

"With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate, and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity."

Mark Twain

"It is not true that women cannot keep secrets. Where they love, they can be trusted to death and beyond, against all sense and reason. It is their weakness, and their great strength. "

Mary Stewart

"Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies"

Mother Teresa

"There is a brokenness out of which comes the unbroken. There is a shatteredness out of which blooms the unshatterable. There is a sorrow beyond all grief, which leads to joy. And a fragility out of whose depths emerges strength. There is a hollow space too vast for words through which we pass with each loss, out of whose darkness we are sanctioned into being"

Rashani

"The kind of beauty I want most is the hard to get kind: strength, courage, dignity."

Ruby Dee

"Strength is the willingness to take risks in a relationship, to disclose yourself with the intention of building a better relationship."

David W Johnson

"Her mother had always said that there was strength and power in the time right before dawn, and those who slept through it missed the best part of the day."

David Thurlo

"The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education. "

Maya Angelou

"Love came in so many forms. We love for weakness or strength, she thought, for security or wildness, for money, or beauty, or sometimes for sadness. Whatever reason, the brain turned giddy with self-worth, and self-worth became indelibly linked to the one who was loved."

Elizabeth Cox

"Later on, when I tried to imagine how I might have ruined things, that would occur to me - that I'd so rarely resisted, that I hadn't made it hard enough for him. Maybe it was like gathering your strength and hurling your body against a door you believe to be locked, and then the door opens easily - it wasn't locked at all - and you're standing looking into the room, trying to remember what it was you thought you wanted."

Curtis Sittenfeld

"I can bear pain myself, he said softly, but I couldn't bear yours. That would take more strength than I have."

Diana Gabaldon

The Counting Crows

"There's things I remember and things I forget. I miss you; I guess that I should."

Counting Crows

On regret

"Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret."

Ambrose Bierce

"Regret for the things we have done will be tempered by time. It is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable."

Sydney J. Harris

"It is a sad day when one looks back and sees that his largest regrets have become some of the most integral elements of his dreams."

John Knowles

"As I grow older, I regret to say that a detestable habit of thinking seems to be getting a hold of me."

H. Rider Haggard

"May I surrender the past without regret, and accept the future without fear."

Brenda Jenkins Kleager

"When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us."

Alexander Graham Bell

"Sacrifice is a part of life. It's supposed to be. It's not something to regret. It's something to aspire to."

Mitch Albom

"I will do you one last favour, in the name and memory of the figment you have replaced. I will clarify a misapprehension of yours. Circumstances did not conspire against me. I was not led into anything, nor did I fall. I chose my life and my course. I chose to do wrong in the hope that right might come of it. I regret it. I would choose differently now. But the choice was mine. Deny that, falsify it, tinsel it over with pious, pitying justification, and you deny everything I am and every scrap of what little good I have been able to do in my life. Good or bad, give me credit for what I have done. I would rather go honestly to Hell, admitting that I leaped knowingly into error and folly, than enter into the sweetest Heaven men can dream of by whining that I had been pushed."

Steven Brust

"Never regret anything. Because at one time it was exactly what you wanted."

Kelsey C. Lee

On love

"We set down feasts for each other and treated our love with tongues of fire. Our bodies were fields of wonder to us."

Pat Conroy (Beach Music)

"There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved."

George Sand

"I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox."

Woody Allen

"We love because it's the only true adventure."

Nikki Giovanni

"Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country."

Anaïs Nin


"To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already 3-parts dead."

Bertrand Russell

"Those who do not have imaginary conversations do not love. "

Josephine Hart

"In vain have I struggled but it will not do, my feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you, how much I love and admire you."

Jane Austen