Dear John

by Nicholas Sparks

the saddest people I’ve ever met in life are the ones who don’t care deeply about anything at all. Passion and satisfaction go hand in hand, and without them, any happiness is only temporary, because there’s nothing to make it last.

“My dad always said that when you’re struggling with something, look at all the people around you and realize that every single person you see is struggling with something, and to them, it’s just as hard as what you’re going through.”

Love should bring joy, it should grant a person peace, but here and now, it was bringing only pain.

love meant that you care for another person’s happiness more than your own, no matter how painful the choices you face might be.