“We don’t have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds.”

The real wonders of life lie in the depths. Exploring the depths for truths is the real wonder which the child and the artist know: magic and power lie in truth.

Anxiety is love’s greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.

Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.

People living deeply have no fear of death.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.

Don’t let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.

Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. And then love will come to you, then it comes to you.

Write. Write until it stops hurting.

No one should be forced to carry the unfulfilled self of another.

It is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately.

The secret of life was Breath. That was what I always wanted my words to do, to Breathe.

Whenever you do something that is not aligned with the yearning or your soul – you create suffering.

We are never trapped unless we choose to be.

When you possess light within, you see it externally.

The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.

Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.

Love is more than a mere feeling. To love means to do good.

I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say ‘he feels deeply, he feels tenderly’.

I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in life.

The first time you fall in love, it changes you forever and no matter how hard you try, that feeling just never goes away.

There’s definitely a dangerous feeling when you’re in love-it’s giving your heart to someone else and knowing that they have control over your feelings. I know for me, who always tries to be so tough, that’s the dangerous thing.

Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.

Families are a kind of leaven that helps to make the world more humane and more fraternal, where no one feels rejected or abandoned.

It’s a weird feeling when people are defining you, and you haven’t even defined yourself.