Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life, but define yourself. You can't sweep other people off their feet, if you can't be swept off your own. To be sensual is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the breaking of bread. There is no money in poetry, but then there is no poetry in money, either.
Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet.
If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars. I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing. Agatha Christie Don't be dismayed at good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again.