Life

Love gives meaning to our lives – as do friendship, or art or faith in God.

These are factors of true happiness, of inner peace, of feelings of harmony, allowing meaning to our existence.
But there is the other side. There is the cruelty of life, the pain, the evil, not to talk of death. They are the hidden tigers, ambushed and ready to attack the imprudent.
In between these pendulums - the positive, the one that gives happiness and meaning, and the negative - that our lives are lived. And when we meditate about all that, we arrive at a diverse and disagreeing set of thoughts about the meaning and purpose of life.

Therefore don't be anxious for tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Each day's own evil is sufficient. 

Nature separates beings, after having surrounded them by love. It divides them, and demands that they still love each other. 

You can't make someone else's choices.
You shouldn't let someone else make yours.

It is better to be hated for what you are
then to be loved for what your not.

The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.

When someone really loves you,
they will never hurt you.
And if they do,
you can see it in their eyes
that it hurts them too...