A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age he dies of being a man.

The only way to give finality to the world is to give it consciousness.

Fascism is cured by reading, and racism is cured by traveling

A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about.

It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.

Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.

The skeptic does not mean him who doubts, but him who investigates or researches, as opposed to him who asserts and thinks that he has found.

Only in solitude do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude.

We should try to be the parents of our future rather than the offspring of our past.

Suffering is the substance of life and the root of personality, for it is only suffering that makes us persons.

Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible.

Remember, it is ultimately your mind which makes anything attractive or unattractive. It is you who is the deciding factor.

People long to go backward in their imagination as well as forward. We don't wish simply to exist forever in some future

All in all. You have been. Redeemer. Pain Steeler. My best friend. Please hold my hand.

Forgiveness isn't about condoning what has happened to you or someone else's actions against you.

The mind has greater power over the emotions, and is less subject thereto, insofar as it understands all things to be necessary.

Reading has always been the largest and most irreplaceable pleasure for Vincent; reading about other people's successes and failures, joys and sufferings seemed to bury his own failures.

You change with the guys you date.

the relationship between people knot so easily, there needs to be a person skilled at working free the threads. Sometimes, though, the only way to extricate a tangle is to cut it out and start fresh.

Life is brief. Always act out of love, never fear.

We go through life. We shed our skins. We become ourselves.