“We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.”William Somerset Maugham 

"This is a world of compensations; and he who would be no slave, must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, can not long retain it."
Abraham Lincoln

"He learned to live with the truth. Not to accept it, but to live with it."
Nicole Krauss, [The History of Love]

“Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all”
Heinrich Heine 

"A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint"
Albert Schweitzer

“A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.”
Henrik Ibsen 

“The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.”
Mark Caine