When we suffer in silence, we think that we are alone, different, separate. When we share our stories of suffering, we find that we are the same.

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.

Write a lot and hit the streets. A writer who doesn't keep up with what's out there ain't gonna be out there.

Take the chair and sit at the fore-front of your dreams. You are the chair-person at the center of affairs

Presently, one after another, like shyly hopping sparrows, her friends arrived, black against the snow.

Desiree. It's like falling in love every night and having your heart broken every morning... Having more memory is just a way of distorting a greater amount of the past.

Yet but three come one more.Two of both kinds make up four.Ere she comes curst and sad.Cupid is a knavish lad.Thus to make poor females mad.

Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are pliable.

The world needs fantasy, not reality. We have enough reality today

I do not hope somebody breaks in. However, if they did, I pity them. I pity the fool that breaks into my house.

Are people more important than the grizzly bear? Only from the point of view of some people.

There's far more truth in the Book of Genesis than in the quantum theory.