“Impatience asks for the impossible, wants to reach the goal without the means of getting there.” – Hegel

“There is not love of life without despair about life.” – Albert Camus

“Trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.” – Moliere

“Whatever it is you’re seeking won’t come in the form you’re expecting.” – Haruki Murakami

“It’s a funny thing about life. If you refuse to settle for anything less than the best, that’s what it will give you.” – W. Somerset Maugham

“Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our natural lives. – C.S. Lewis

“We live in the world when we love it.” – Rabindranath Tagore

“A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.” – Kurt Vonnegut, The Sirens of Titan

“Be silly. Be honest. Be kind.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Communication is truth; communication is happiness…to conceal nothing; to pretend nothing; if we are ignorant to say so; if we love our friends to let them know it.” – Virginia Woolf