In the spiritual life there is no such thing as an indifference to love or hate.

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.

There is this idea that you either read to escape or you read to find yourself. I don't really see the difference. We find ourselves through the process of escaping.

Each life has its share of heroism, an obscure heroism, born of abdication, of renunciation and acceptance under the merciless whip of fate.

Don't give any chance for others to stole your smile..Because, it is the most valuable asset than anything in this world!

Sleep is the most blessed and blessing of all natural graces.

Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.

I am afraid of falling into hopeless despair, over my wasted life, and I am still not sure how it happened.

Be the man of no one! Instead, be the man of truth, only the truth!

My family fulfills me.

One's own troubles can be borne with fortitude; only a monster of indifference can bear the sufferings of others with fortitude.

I doubt not then but innocence shall makeFalse accusation blush, and tyrannyTremble at patience.