Let go of the mistakes and the sins of others. You'll have plenty of time to make your own mistakes, the rest of your life to commit your own sins.

The day I understood everything, was the day I stopped trying to figure everything out. The day I knew peace was the day I let everything go.

In this world, it is too common for people to search for someone to lose themselves in. But I am already lost. I will look for someone to find myself in.

Before, I wanted to say: "I found love!" But now, I want to say: "I found a person. And he belongs to me and I belong to him.

For some people, “the point of no return” begins at the very moment their souls become aware of each others’ existence.

There is some kind of a sweet innocence in being human- in not having to be just happy or just sad- in the nature of being able to be both broken and whole, at the same time.

The only person who can pull me down is myself, and I'm not going to let myself pull me down anymore.

I can't decide whether I'm a good girl wrapped up in a bad girl, or if I'm a bad girl wrapped up in a good girl. And that's how I know I'm a woman!

Don't think about making life better for other people who don't even deserve you, rather, focus on making your life the best, for yourself and those who love you.

In case you never get a second chance: don't be afraid!" "And what if you do get a second chance?" "You take it!

Cake is happiness! If you know the way of the cake, you know the way of happiness! If you have a cake in front of you, you should not look any further for joy!

hit with your fist, not with your finger spread

The mind is powerful, but it needs something to hold on to so it doesn't wander.

If we define ourselves by each of the ever-changing feelings that cascade through us, how will we ever feel at home in our own bodies and minds?

The woman, who is not the wife, has no right to receive the seed of the man, because it is the man and not the woman, who has to bear the responsibility for his seed

The apprehension of... values is intuitive; but it is not a built-in intuition, not something with which one is born. Intuition in art is actually the result of... prolonged tuition.

Playing as children means playing is the most serious thing in the world.

There have been countless times where I've worked out with my kids crawling around all over the place. You just make it work.

If you just sit there, and you're a writer, you're bound to write crap. A lot of American writing is crap. And a lot of American writers are professionals.

Opposition is dangerous to immortality.

Man is greater than the gods.