Everyone is always in need of something that another person can give, be it undivided attention, a kind word or deep empathy. There is no better use of a life than to be attentive to such needs.

If the thrill of hunting were in the hunt, or even in the marksmanship, a camera would do just as well.

You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.

Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.

The sky slowly pulled up its blue dress to reveal night.

The more you love someone, he came to think, the harder it is to tell them. It surprised him that strangers didn't stop each other on the street to say I love you.

His voice was handsome and broken, like a cobblestone street.

To feel alone is to be alone.

Words are capable of making experience more vivid, and also of organizing it. They can scare us, and they can comfort us.

When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own.

It has shown me that everything is illuminated in the light of the past. It is always along the side of us...on the inside, looking out.

God only gives men power to make wealth, meaning God does not give wealth, he gives the power to work for it. (Deut. 8:18)

I cannot possibly understand how fraternity can be legally enforced without liberty being legally destroyed...

God lets everything happen for a reason. It's all a learning process, and you have to go from one level to another.

The truth is that our democracy is a work in progress. We are all its founders. We are all learning that we are linked and not ranked.

Faust, the Ninth Symphony, and the will of Adolf Hitler are eternal youth and know neither time nor transience.

Life is cruel and we do terrible things to each other.

My strength returns to me with my cup of coffee and the reading of the psalms.

It seems to me that we become more dear one to the other, in together admiring works of art, which speak to the soul by their true grandeur.

Why do we have such a finite capacity for pleasure but an infinite one for pain?

One possessing Vairagya does not understand by Atman the individual ego but the All-pervading Lord, residing as the Self and Internal Ruler in all. He is perceivable by all as the sum total.