By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept Quotes

We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation.

Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering.

To love is to lose control.

Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.

Life takes us by surprise and orders us to move toward the unknown – even when we don’t want to and when we think we don’t need to.

In real life, love has to be possible. Even if it is not returned right away, love can only survive when the hope exists that you will be able to win over the person you desire.

In fairy tales, the princesses kiss the frogs, and the frogs become princes. In real life, the princesses kiss princes, and the princes turn into frogs.

If pain must come, may it come quickly. Because I have a life to live, and I need to live it in the best way possible. If he has to make a choice, may he make it now. Then I will either wait for him or forget him.

If I have to fall, may it be from a high place.

Happiness is something that multiplies when it is divided.

But love is always new. Regardless of whether we love once, twice, or a dozen times in our life, we always face a brand-new situation. Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere. We simply have to accept it, because it is what nourishes our existence. If we reject it, we die of hunger, because we lack the courage to stretch out a hand and pluck the fruit from the branches of the tree of life. We have to take love where we find it, even if that means hours, days, weeks of disappointment and sadness. The moment we begin to seek love, love begins to seek us.