A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?
Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.
Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.
If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.