Life cannot be without relationship, but we have made it so agonizing and hideous by basing it on personal and possessive love. Can one love and yet not possess? You will find the true answer not in escape, ideals, beliefs but through the understanding of the causes of dependence and possessiveness.

I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms.

If you like it you should enjoy it! Moderation in everything. If there’s things you really love, you should enjoy. You get one life, so you should enjoy it.

Life is relationship, living is relationship. We cannot live if you and I have built a wall around ourselves and just peep over that wall occasionally. Unconsciously, deeply, under the wall, we are related.

Yeah, I like to keep myself interested – I’ll kind of throw myself into some area that I don’t completely know or understand, that I’m not adept at, so I’m forced to swim in order to stay afloat. There’s a good feeling that comes from that.

Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

The thing about the truth is, not a lot of people can handle it.

Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn’t they’d be married too.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn’t touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

He knows my limitations and where I’m a good wife and a good mom.

I used to have a real problem with self-pity. Every time the devil would throw a pity party, I would attend.

In all our contacts it is probably the sense of being really needed and wanted which gives us the greatest satisfaction and creates the most lasting bond.

You can have the platinum album. But, you know, when you still feel like you haven’t quite found your place in the world, it kind of gives a crazy offset.

I resigned from the Marine Corps and flying in 1974, even though I loved them both. I quit because I no longer wanted to fight for peace. Instead, I believe we can build a more sustainable peace by working for prosperity.

In the stillness of your presence, you can feel your own formless and timeless reality as the unmanifested life that animates your physical form. You can then feel the same life deep within every other human and every other creature. You look beyond the veil of form and separation. This is the realization of oneness. This is love.

These things bring you to reality as to how fragile you are; at the same moment you are doing something that nobody else is able to do. The same moment that you are seen as the best, the fastest and somebody that cannot be touched, you are enormously fragile.

Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

I love food.

Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many – not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

For some reason I did something where I realized I could get a reaction. That was when I broke out of my shell at school, because I really didn’t have any friends or anything like that and I just kind of was going along, and then finally I did this zany thing, and all of a sudden I had tons of friends.

All my adult life people have been helping me.

I grew up in an environment where being polite was taken as a weakness. So I just fought everybody.

I allow myself to fail. I allow myself to break. I’m not afraid of my flaws.

Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival.

We are always doing something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us.

Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority.

There’s no reality except the one contained within us. That’s why so many people live an unreal life. They take images outside them for reality and never allow the world within them to assert itself.

There are some things you can’t share without ending up liking each other.

Just because something didn’t work out your way, or somebody disappointed you, that does not change who you are.

I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.

The road to perdition has ever been accompanied by lip service to an ideal.

In the end, people are persuaded not by what we say, but by what they understand.

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?

I’ve never been a boyfriend kind of girl.

When you learn about the teaching and the practice of another tradition, you always have a chance to understand your own teaching and practice.

To love one that is great, is almost to be great one’s self.

When I was younger, I was testing myself and questioning everything, but now it’s less about that and more about these are the years of my life with my family.

One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer.

Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious.

Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.

People do not understand what a great revenue economy is.

I am deeply grateful to the citizens of Sarajevo and the Sarajevo Canton assembly for bestowing upon me this incredible honor of citizenship. I am so proud to now be a part of such an extraordinary part of the world and fellow citizen to the people I deeply love and admire.

I’ve experienced great things, I’ve experienced great tragedies. I’ve done almost everything I could possibly ever imagine doing, but I just know that there’s more.

You tell me: Can you live crushed under the weight of the present? Without a memory of the past and without the desire to look ahead to the future by building something, a future, a family? Can you go on like this? This, to me, is the most urgent problem that the Church is facing.

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Without being the most confident person in the world, I think I am the right person for Liverpool.

Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet’s heart when caught and tangled in a woman’s body?

If you want to know who your friends are, get yourself a jail sentence.

When I write about a 15-year old, I jump, I return to the days when I was that age. It’s like a time machine. I can remember everything. I can feel the wind. I can smell the air. Very actually. Very vividly.

It’s always wonderful to get to know women, with the mystery and the joy and the depth. If you can make a woman laugh, you’re seeing the most beautiful thing on God’s Earth.

In order to heal others, we first need to heal ourselves. And to heal ourselves, we need to know how to deal with ourselves.

In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit.

Whatever woman may cast her lot with mine, should any ever do so, it is my intention to do all in my power to make her happy and contented; and there is nothing I can imagine that would make me more unhappy than to fail in the effort.

No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.

You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.

Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.

I think ‚The Color Purple‘ is so bursting with love, the need for connection, the showing of the need for connection around the globe.

The best advice comes from people who don’t give advice.

Genius is a potential that lives within you and every other human being. You have many moments of genius in your lifetime. These are the times when you have a uniquely brilliant idea and implement it even if only you are aware of how fantastic it is.