“When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others.”
“Never let a problem to be solved become more important than the person to be loved.”
“The greater your capacity to love, the greater your capacity to feel the pain.”
“You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.”
“Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.”
“The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.”
“Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.”
“I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.”
“Maybe I could have loved you better. Maybe you should have loved me more. Maybe our hearts were just next in line. Maybe everything breaks sometime.”
“Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life”
“You know it's love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you're not part of their happiness.”
“There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.”
“Find out who you are and do it on purpose.”
“If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought.”
“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
“An Atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church. An atheist believes that deed must be done instead of prayer said. An atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death. He wants disease conquered, poverty vanished, war eliminated.”
“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
“I am Me. In all the world, there is no one else exactly like me. Everything that comes out of me is authentically mine, because I alone chose it -- I own everything about me: my body, my feelings, my mouth, my voice, all my actions, whether they be to others or myself. I own my fantasies, my dreams, my hopes, my fears. I own my triumphs and successes, all my failures and mistakes. Because I own all of me, I can become intimately acquainted with me. By so doing, I can love me and be friendly with all my parts. I know there are aspects about myself that puzzle me, and other aspects that I do not know -- but as long as I am friendly and loving to myself, I can courageously and hopefully look for solutions to the puzzles and ways to find out more about me. However I look and sound, whatever I say and do, and whatever I think and feel at a given moment in time is authentically me. If later some parts of how I looked, sounded, thought, and felt turn out to be unfitting, I can discard that which is unfitting, keep the rest, and invent something new for that which I discarded. I can see, hear, feel, think, say, and do. I have the tools to survive, to be close to others, to be productive, and to make sense and order out of the world of people and things outside of me. I own me, and therefore, I can engineer me. I am me, and I am Okay.”