I'm afraid many women do choose the wedding over the marriage. It seems a steep price to pay, but it comes from a place of deep, sad longing to be loved and to have it proven that you are of value.

A true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that is holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life.

I've never seen any life transformation that didn't begin with the person in question finally getting tired of their own bullshit.

Tis' better to live your own life imperfectly than to imitate someone else's perfectly.

Stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone ought to be.

I'm choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am. I'm making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises.

This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.

There's always another level up. There's always another ascension. More grace, more light, more generosity, more compassion, more to shed, more to grow.

You were given life; it is your duty (and also your entitlement as a human being) to find something beautiful within life, no matter how slight.

Never forget that once upon a time, in an unguarded moment, you recognized yourself as a friend.

If you're going to answer the call and you're going to transform and you're going to change, get ready. It is not a day at the beach.

When dreams come true, you won't realize unless they were dreams of bad fate.

For the time being—”He emphasized each word. “I’ll be the only one climbing through your window.

I love the voice - it’s the most perfect instrument ever heard. It’s God given.

I think theatricality is just one way of performing. I don't think it's a better way or the way, but it's my way.

You Nazis! I pity the devil when you boys start arriving in bunches.

Failures are inevitable. Unfortunately, in film they live for ever and they're 40 ft wide and 20 ft high.

It costs something to be a true Christian. It will cost us our sins, our self-righteousn ess, our ease and our worldliness.

In my day, we didn't have self-esteem, we had self-respect, and no more of it than we had earned.

When I was growing up watching Marilyn Monroe, I learned that you can be very beautiful, very glamorous and very vulnerable and not give up your soul just because you were a movie star.

Do you recall the story of the young Yogi in the Mahâbhârata who prided himself on his psychic powers by burning the bodies of a crow and crane by his intense will, produced by anger?