"Try to learn to breathe deeply, really taste food when you eat, and when you sleep, really sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough."
~Hemingway

"there's a reason for everything and usually involves a lesson" :blink:(my) Grammie:

Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'--Erich Fromm

Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife.--Franz Schubert

“Don’t write to escape your world, instead write to create a better one.”

Cliff Harrison

Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated.--Lou Holtz

"I'll stop wearing black when they invent a darker color."
— Wednesday Addams

“For true love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have. And if you go to draw at the true fountainhead, the more water you draw, the more abundant is its flow.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupery