So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.

I let people fill in the blanks on their own. If they want to think about their ex, that’s fine. If they want to think about maybe who one of my exes is, then that’s fine. And it might not be right, because I’m the only one who knows what these songs are really about. It’s the one shred of privacy I have in the matter.

When I was young, I could not imagine being old. My mother said, and the doctor confirmed, that I had an unusual amount of energy; and it followed me into young adulthood.

One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.

We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

Most people want to avoid pain, and discipline is usually painful.

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Some are reputed sick and some are not. It often happens that the sicker man is the nurse to the sounder.

If you truly get in touch with a piece of carrot, you get in touch with the soil, the rain, the sunshine. You get in touch with Mother Earth and eating in such a way, you feel in touch with true life, your roots, and that is meditation. If we chew every morsel of our food in that way we become grateful and when you are grateful, you are happy.

No matter what, people grow. If you chose not to grow, you’re staying in a small box with a small mindset. People who win go outside of that box. It’s very simple when you look at it.

As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.

Who, being loved, is poor?

Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.

Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.

I would rather make my name than inherit it.

I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside.

I think that as you grow up, as you get older, we can’t get bitter, we can’t get jaded.

Love begins by taking care of the closest ones – the ones at home.

If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

I realised a little bit to my astonishment that I can give a lecture for a thousand people, and there will be this tumultuous applause, so, you know, I have the feeling well, it can’t be all that bad.

You may think it was a very little thing, and in these days it seems to me like a trifle, but it was a most important incident in my life. I could scarcely credit that I, the poor boy, had earned a dollar in less than a day; that by honest work, I had earned a dollar. I was a more hopeful and thoughtful boy from that time.

One of the most important decisions you’ll ever make is choosing the kind of universe you exist in: is it helpful and supportive or hostile and unsupportive? Your answer to this question will make all the difference in terms of how you live your life and what kind of Divine assistance you attract.

A woman will doubt everything you say except it be compliments to herself.

We’re not trying to make you less of a man. We just want you to love us as deeply and as wholesomely and as fully as we love you.

If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish.

We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it… that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.

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.

To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.

People like to hear the word ‚love.‘

I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.

Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere.

In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.

I’m a big believer in doing things that make you uncomfortable. So, we live in a world where we want to be as comfortable as we can. And we wonder why we have no growth. We wonder why – when the smallest thing in our life gets difficult – we wonder why we cower and we run away.

I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

Your life will be a blessed and balanced experience if you first honor your identity and priority.

What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat?

I don’t want to get into it, but if you know someone, it doesn’t mean you agree with everything they say or they do.

All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.

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

Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds.

I like someone who is a little crazy but coming from a good place. I think scars are sexy because it means you made a mistake that led to a mess.

When granted many years of life, growing old in age is natural, but growing old with grace is a choice. Growing older with grace is possible for all who will set their hearts and minds on the Giver of grace, the Lord Jesus Christ.

My wife has about everything I can think of.

Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you’re exactly the same.

The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.

Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry.

Prospering just doesn’t have to do with money.

I’ve been reckless, but I’m not a rebel without a cause.

I’m still living at least five parallel lives, honestly! I wonder about it. I have no idea how that happens.

I was raised in a family where vulnerability was barely tolerated: no training wheels on our bicycles, no goggles in the pool, just get it done. And so I grew up not only with discomfort about my own vulnerability, I didn’t care for it in other people either.

Concentration is one of the happiest things in my life.

Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.

Usually, people have a tendency to be caught in the worries concerning the future or in the regret concerning the past. There is some kind of energy that is pushing them to run, and they are not able to establish themselves in the present moment.

The love we give away is the only love we keep.

I’ve laid my friends bare.

I like to recede away from classifications. You might say that indicates a fundamental lack of commitment. I suppose that’s true to some degree.