I will not fear for you are ever with me and you will never leave me to face my perils alone.

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.

I came trusting them. They beat me with rods of dullness. They don't know, they don't understand how agonizing their complacent dullness is. Like ants and August sun on a wound." - Carol Kennicott

Prayer is meeting with God. It's checking in, saying I am here, You are here. It is the present moment.

She gave herself a hard twist and fell into a sitting position, staring at me with those maggot-filled doll’s eyes.

I am among those who think that science has great beauty.

In order to see where we are going, we not only must remember where we have been, but we must understand where we have been.

I haven't actually seen a Lady Gaga tour, but I do think she's very good.

I know how to behave but sometimes I can't be bothered.

I'll let you in on something big: I'm not a white-teeth teen.

That you are not already golden word in our streets Already memories Your love fades Already Whether you are no longer to have perished.

Adaptation is a vital part of a response to the challenge of climate change