“When we cling to pain we end up punishing ourselves.”

You are the only you. You are the best you. You will always be the second best anyone else.

In the end you have only you.

Anything that is learned can be unlearned and relearned.

Love is like a mirror. When you love another you become his mirror and he becomes yours. And reflecting each other’s love you see infinity.

A life lived in love will never be dull.

Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.

Every moment spent in unhappiness is a moment of happiness lost.

One does not fall “in” or “out” of love. One grows in love.

A life of love is one of continual growth, where the doors and windows of experience are always open to the wonder and magic that life offers. To love is to risk living fully.

Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

You are a special combination for a purpose.

Success often lies just the other side of failure.

What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.

Find the person who will love you because of your differences and not in spite of them and you have found a lover for life.

Love is always bestowed as a gift – freely, willingly and without expectation. We don’t love to be loved; we love to love.

Change. It has the power to uplift, to heal, to stimulate, surprise, open new doors, bring fresh experience and create excitement in life.

No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.

A fellow is more afraid of the trouble he might have than he ever is of the trouble he’s already got. He’ll cling to trouble he’s used to before he’ll risk a change.

As drivers desert the city I find myself clinging more and more to my father’s belief that a man without a car is not really a man.

When we see beyond self, we no longer cling to happiness. And when we stop clinging, we can begin to be happy.

You should know both the universal and the personal, the realm of forms and the freedom to not cling to them.

The meditator simply knows them, they don’t enter his mind. That is, he has no clinging. He is simply the experiencer.

To define Buddhism without a lot of words and phrases, we can simply say, ‘Don’t cling or hold on to anything. Harmonize with actuality, with things as they are.’

Once you understand non-self, then the burden of life is gone. You’ll be at peace with the world. When we see beyond self, we no longer cling to happiness and we can truly be happy.