The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world. - Lao Tze

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. - Zen proverb

Compared to what we ought to be, we are half awake. - William James

"Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow." ~Lawrence Clark Powell

and they come from a Chick Lit bit, no less!

Nonetheless...

"Rule of life," says Luke [...]. "If you bother to ask someone's advice, then bother to listen to it." - p 158, Confessions of a Shopaholic, by Sophie Kinsella