You can go through life and make new friends every year - every month practically - but there was never any substitute for those friendships of childhood that survive into adult years. Those are the ones in which we are bound to one another with hoops of steel.
— Alexander McCall Smith

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close.
— Pablo Neruda

Keep smiling, because life is a beautiful thing and there’s so much to smile about.
— Marilyn Monroe

Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exists, but because the tell us that dragons can be beaten.
— G. K. Chesterton

The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.
— Jim Rohn

One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.
— Paulo Coelho

You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one.
— Paulo Coelho

Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.
— Paulo Coelho

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
— Anaïs Nin

There is only one you for all time. Fearlessly be yourself.
— Anthony Rapp