Everything you want lies on the other side of learning to trust yourself. Take a chance. Have faith. You already know who you are, what you want, and where you want to go.

Once trust is built, distance cannot kill it. Time and space alone cannot destroy authentic connection.

The history of your happiness is the history of your feeling connected.

To know yourself, you must first sacrifice the illusion that already you do.

A soul mate is not found. A soul mate is recognized.

Only love that continues to flow in the face of anger, blame, and indifference can be called love. All else is simply a transaction.

If you do not respect your own wishes, no one else will. You will simply attract people who disrespect you as much as you do.

The important thing is for me to feel love towards my fellow human beings—and sometimes, that has to be at a distance.

Self-love is essential. Until you can learn how to feel loved in an empty room, you will not feel loved for very long in any other room.

There is no quick fix-all procedure to heal your insecurities. Like any relationship, the relationship with yourself must be built and re-built one kind, loving conversation at a time.

Have the courage to love yourself like you always wished someone would.

There are pockets of time, she thinks, where every sense rings like a bell, where the world brims with fleeting grace.

My dad's been responsible for a lot of my issues.

Self-preservation's a man's first duty. And natives don't mind dying, you know. They don't feel about it as Europeans do.

As for politics, I’m an anarchist. I hate governments and rules and fetters. Can’t stand caged animals. People must be free.

For the scientific acquisition of knowledge is almost as tedious as the routine acquisition of wealth.

In morality, man treats himself not as individuum but as dividuum.

We remember the details of our story, we do not invent them.

This depravation of our nature is nothing else but the blotting of God's image in us.

A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation.

I sometimes close my eyes during a show because I have drawn a picture of an audience enjoying the show more on the back of my eyelids.