The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.

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Love consists in this that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.

Let everything happen to you, Beauty and terror, Just keep going, No feeling is final.

The only sadnesses that are dangerous and unhealthy are the ones that we carry around in public in order to drown them out with the noise.

A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.

Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all of one’s lifetime.

We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us.

It's impossible to protect your kids against disappointment in life.

There is no such thing in life as normal.