No one can manipulate anyone else. In any relationship, both parties know what they're doing. even if one complains later on that they were used.

He knew one of the women well, and had shared his universe with her. They had seen the same mountains, and the same trees, although each of them had seem them differently. She knew his weaknesses, his moments of hatred, of despair. Yet she was there at his side. They shared the same universe.

You don't need to climb a mountain to know that it's high.

Anyone who has lost something they thought was theirs forever finally comes to realise that nothing really belongs to them.

When a person really desires something, all the universe conspires to help that person to realize his dream.

Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.