I can love only what I can place so high above me that I cannot reach it.

Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Just because your doctor has a name for your condition, doesn't mean he knows what it is.

Every thing that you love, you will eventually lose, but in the end, love will return in a different form.

I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.

It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves.

I’m tired, can’t think of anything and want only to lay my face in your lap, feel your hand on my head and remain like that through all eternity.

I am free and that is why I am lost.

I am a cage, in search of a bird.

People label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as 'nauseatingly miserable beyond repair'.

If lightning is the anger of the gods, then the gods are concerned mostly about trees.

You won this job because you were the best for the job. You are smart, quick to learn, and can quickly acquire any skill you might be lacking.

Men were not gods after all, but as human and as clumsy as girls.

Obey, love and serve the Lord with all your quintessence.

Live today facing forward—with your back on yesterday, your eyes on tomorrow, and your head and heart in the moment.

What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.

Just think of the work you've set yourself to do, and do it as well as you can.

If you did the same thing you did yesterday as you did today as you will do tomorrow, what have you done? The same thing.

...language is not the frosting, it's the cake.

My first vocation was dance.