God Himself begins to live in me not only as my Creator but as my other and true self.

The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.

Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.

‎"Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy.

The greatest need of our time is to clean out the enormous mass of mental and emotional rubbish that clutters our minds

Compassion is the keen awareness of the interdependence of all things.

In a world of noise, confusion and conflict it is necessary that there be places of silence, inner discipline and peace. In such places love can blossom.

People may spend their whole lives climbing the ladder of success only to find, once they reach the top, that the ladder is leaning against the wrong wall.

Love is not a matter of getting what you want. Quite the contrary. The insistence on always having what you want, on always being satisfied, on always being fulfilled, makes love impossible.

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

It is my belief, that we should not be too sure of having found Christ in ourselves until we have found him also in that part of humanity that is most remote from our own.

Do not consider me now as an elegant female intending to plague you, but as a rational creature speaking the truth from her heart.

We all know we're going to die; what's important is the kind of men and women we are in the face of this.

He'd learned his lesson a long time ago: Even in the midst of heartbreak, you could still find yourself laughing.

The truth is, if a werewolf behaved like this psychopath it wouldn't be because he was part animal, but because he was still too human. Only humans kill for sport.

You never know what the future holds or where my life will take me.

My father so appropriately put it that we are certainly the only animal that makes conscious choices that are bad for our survival as a species.

Becoming a parent erased many of my negative childhood feelings and filled them in with something new.

I realised that I had a choice to either feel angry about not having arms and legs, or thankful for having my family, friends and my little foot.

The explicable requires the inexplicable. Experience requires the nonexperienceable. The obvious requires the mystical.

When you only do what is expected of you, you never learn what you would've done had you chosen for yourself.