People need each other and think it is love. There's no hanging on to, or fencing in, of the other one when one loves.

Misery is complexity. Happiness is simplicity.

The only method of receiving love is to give love, because what we give out must come back.

You can have anything you want, providing you first let go of wanting it.

We can have peace if we let go of wanting to change the past and wanting to control the future.

There is more pain from holding on to the thought of pain than there is in the situation itself. If you let the world strike you, it will do so less cruelly than your own imagination.

All unhappiness is caused by our trying to be limited, to be an ego. The more we are our Self, the happier we are. We will never be completely happy until we are completely being our Self.

Don't probe darkness to understand light. Don't dwell on sickness to be healthy. Don't indulge in thoughts of lack to have supply.

The way to infinite joy is through the elimination of desire, - no attachments, no aversions.

The vast majority of people's concept of love is actually hate, more or less. “I need you, I must have you, I can't live without you, you're mine,” is all non-love.

Feeling sad about anything is holding onto it. Say, 'This is something I have to let go of,' and immediately you will feel better.

She can't help it, ' he said. 'She's got the soul of a poet and the emotional makeup of a junkyard dog.

She loves you. Do you even know what to do with that?” I kissed the top of her head. “Cherish it like it’s the most precious thing on the face of the earth.

Some are cursed with the fullness of satiety; and how can they bear the ills of life when its very pleasures fatigue them?

I am optimistic about the future. Brethren, for our part, we must remain steadfast in hope, work with all our strength, and trust in God.

Once you figure out what's best for the story, take out the rest.

Tell him I took the cat

Do I need men? I don't think it's about needing men. It's about love.

ʺWhy,ʺ he began slowly, ʺis Victor Dashkov joining us?ʺ ʺWell, itʹs kind of a funny story . . .ʺ

Writing is mentally stimulating; it's like a puzzle that makes you think all the time.

Why, thou deboshed fish thou...Wilt thou tell a monstrous lie, being but half a fish and half a monster?