There is a difference between judgment and feedback. Your critics use you as a mirror for their own hidden darkness. Your teachers hold up a mirror to yours.

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.

Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.

A lot of people these days are not music lovers - they just want to be famous which is a very different thing to what I grew up believing in.

Want and boredom are indeed the twin poles of human life.

Animals were my pets, and the thought of eating my pets freaked me out.

We have the choice to choose how we're going to educate our emotions.

I'll never graduate from collagen.

You see crime and you see all [ sharia] things happening, unfortunately all over Europe, because of (a) the mass immigration, but (b) also because of we politicians are not able to deal with it.

As believers in Jesus Christ, our work is to believe while God works on our behalf.

Running is the greatest metaphor for life, because you get out of it what you put into it.

When Donald Trump is in trouble, he starts yelling, he starts screaming. He starts insulting. He starts cursing.