There it was, happiness in a backward glance: happiness and the certainty of hope.

... I'll always have something that not even time can take away. Pain. ...because when I've forgotten everything else, I'll feel that ache... that tightness in my throat... that heaviness in my chest... and know that I loved a woman once and she loved me back. It's proof that I existed and so did she.

The only thing that really matters in life is to love and be loved.

Self love is the only way to a high quality love life. The quality of men and love relationships you have experienced is a direct result of the degree of love you have for yourself. Once you do the inner work to love yourself completely, you will have a wonderful and fulfilling love life beyond your dreams.

I don't look for love. Love looks for me." "Why?" "Because it needs me. Because I'm not afraid of it.

Es war so, als würde ich ausatmen, nachdem ich viel zu lange die Luft angehalten hatte.