One of the most difficult things I ever did was learn to support myself through my whole range of emotional experiences without running away.

Once trust is built, distance cannot kill it. Time and space alone cannot destroy authentic connection.

The history of your happiness is the history of your feeling connected.

To know yourself, you must first sacrifice the illusion that already you do.

A soul mate is not found. A soul mate is recognized.

Only love that continues to flow in the face of anger, blame, and indifference can be called love. All else is simply a transaction.

If you do not respect your own wishes, no one else will. You will simply attract people who disrespect you as much as you do.

The important thing is for me to feel love towards my fellow human beings—and sometimes, that has to be at a distance.

Self-love is essential. Until you can learn how to feel loved in an empty room, you will not feel loved for very long in any other room.

There is no quick fix-all procedure to heal your insecurities. Like any relationship, the relationship with yourself must be built and re-built one kind, loving conversation at a time.

Have the courage to love yourself like you always wished someone would.

Sleeping is not a loss of consciousness, but it is a temporary loss of integration of awareness.

I don't believe in guardian angels, " Regine says seriously. "Just people who are there for you and people who aren't.

Toleration is the best religion.

I hate phone calls so I believe in a telephone armistice. To me, the idea of calling someone unprompted is basically saying, 'Hey, stop whatever you're doing and talk to me right now.

For some reason when I write in cursive, it's easier and flows better for me to read that when I print.

Intuition does not denote something contrary to reason, but something outside of the province of reason.

I have gained a lot of perspective from the places I have traveled too and the people I have been fortunate enough to meet.

It's nice when people are happy to hear that you're still alive, rather than feeling like "Oh, finally he's dead?"

Doubt is the thing that'll kill you, the only thing, and it'll kill your friends, too.

Writers acquire their technique by spotting, savoring, and reverse-engineering examples of good prose.