What is the relationship between love and desire? How do they relate, and how do they conflict? ... Therein lies the mystery of eroticism.

If you start to feel that you have given up too many parts of yourself to be with your partner, then one day you will end up looking for another person in order to reconnect with those lost parts.

Love enjoys knowing everything about you; desire needs mystery.

Trouble looms when monogamy is no longer a free expression of loyalty but a form of enforced compliance.

Mystery is not always about travelling to new places, it is about looking with new eyes.

It’s hard to feel attracted to someone who has abandoned her sense of autonomy.

Love is a vessel that contains both security and adventure, and commitment offers one of the great luxuries of life: time. Marriage is not the end of romance, it is the beginning.

There is no neediness in desire ... there is no caretaking in desire. Caretaking is mightily loving, [but] it's a powerful anti-aphrodisiac.

When we seek the gaze of another, it isn't always our partner we're turning away from, but the person we have ourselves become.

Love rests on two pillars: surrender and autonomy. Our need for togetherness exists alongside our need for separateness.

It's our imagination that's responsible for love, not the other person.

Their screams would echo through the house and reverberate against my eardrums until my mind would fracture. Years went by and with each fracture

Inner peace begins when nothing can disturb the calmness of your mind.

What you see is not real. It is a misinterpretation of our false perceptions.

We can't achieve zero waste without reuse.

There is no such thing as a disembodied mind. The mind is implanted in the brain, and the brain is implanted in the body.

I feel like a quote out of context.

And when it comes to gettin nookie, I'm not a rookie... I got girls that make that chick Toni Braxton look like Whoopi.

Has there not been, sometimes, this temptation to do a great deal for Christ, but not to live a great deal with Christ?

Vladimir Putin is really very much of a leader. I mean, you can say, oh, isn't that a terrible thing - the man has very strong control over a country.

I needed to be in the bush. There I find solitude and beauty and purity and focus. That's where my heart lies.