"You say that you love rain, but you open your umbrella when it rains.
You say that you love the sun, but you find a shadow spot when the sun shines.
You say that you love the wind, but you close your windows when wind blows.
This is why I am afraid, you say that you love me too."
~Unknown author from a Turkish poem cited to Shakespeare.
"No candle burns forever"
~Known quote, but I haven't been able to find the original author.
"Sometimes I can't see the forest. Just trees."
~English saying from the 16th century, by J. Heywood.
Here it is in its original format:
"1546 J. HEYWOOD Prov. II. iv. (1867) 51 Plentie is nodeintie, ye see not your owne ease. I see, ye can not see the wood for trees. —Oxford English Dictionary"