To love our nothingness we must love everything in us that the proud man loves when he loves himself. But we must love it all for exactly the opposite reason.

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.

You cannot wear every expectation. Consider putting aside ones that don't fit.

There are no endings, only beginnings that have been reborn.

The most important thing is not to achieve success, but to keep it so that it would be stable.

Not with dreams, but with blood and with iron, Shall a nation be moulded at last.

I've learned that no matter how serious your life requires you to be, everyone needs a friend to act goofy with.

Amazing what the British do with language; the nuances of politeness. The world's great diplomats, surely.

Many working families are both prisoners and architects of the time bind in which they find themselves.

A lot of conservatives, a big part of the Republican base don't like his position on common core, don't like his position on immigration.

The photographer projects himself into everything he sees, identifying himself with everything in order to know it and to feel it better.

There's lots and lots of guys out there. The question is trying to find the right one.