Words for My Soul

“In order to have great happiness, you have to know great pain and unhappiness – otherwise how would you know when you’re happy?” ~Leslie Caron

“We all want to be happy, and we’re all going to die. You might say those are the only two unchallengably true facts that apply to every human being on the planet.” ~William Boyd

Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.
-Wallace Stegner

“I love you,” Marius whispered suddenly, passionately, as a mortal man might. “I have always loved you. I wish that I could believe in anything other than love at this moment; but I can’t.”
- Anne Rice, Queen of the Damned

“I’ve been making a list of the things they don’t teach you at school. They don’t teach you how to love somebody. They don’t teach you how to be famous. They don’t teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don’t teach you how to walk away from someone you don’t [...]