Gratitude takes nothing for granted, is never unresponsive, is constantly awakening to new wonder.

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.

Life is complex in its expression, involving more than percipience, namely desire, emotion, will, and feeling.

Who was this girl who thumbed her nose at two kingdoms and did as she pleased?

Morality is always higher than law and we cannot forget this ever.

Who knows if this other half of life where we think we're awake is not another sleep a little different from the first.

If you can't write your message in a sentence, you can't say it in an hour.

We cannot live without the knowledge that someone cares about us.

I dare you all to write one more thing that you won't say to my face. Because I will make you say it. In that manner. That is a threat.

Sympathy is towards someone else, versus empathy, which is feeling like someone else.

I'm not a guy that loves a lot of rehearsal, but it depends. It depends what it would be.

My muse is very often, in my mind, a nagger. She nags me.