I used to want everything to stay the same. But feelings fade and people change. So, I’m going to live every moment like its my last, and not let the future be based on my past.
No relationship is perfect, ever. There are always some ways you have to bend, to compromise, to give something up in order to gain something greater…The love we have for each other is bigger than these small differences. And that’s the key. It’s like a big pie chart, and the love in a relationship has to be the biggest piece. Love can make up for a lot.
When you’re struggling with something, look at all the people around you and realize that every single person you see is struggling with something and to them, it’s just as hard as what you’re going through.
This is what we call love. When you are loved, you can do anything in creation. When you are loved, there’s no need at all to understand what’s happening, because everything happens within you.
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Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist)
.. one of my favorite books.. and i think its time i re-read it.
Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.