“We are always better than before when those we love inflict wounds upon us.”

“While wounds can be inflicted easily upon those we love, it's often much more difficult to heal them.”

“When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.”

“If those we love visit us when we dream, those who torment us almost always visit us when we're still awake.”

“and the world we live in will be either better or worse, depending on whether we become better or worse. And that's where the power of love comes in. Because when we love, we always strive to become better than we are.”

“There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another... It is when we begin to hurt those whom we love that the guilt with which we are born becomes intolerable, and since all those whom we love intensely and continuously grow part of us, and since we hate ourselves in them, so we torture ourselves and them together.”