“Love men and women not for their strength but their softness, not for their fullness but their hunger, not for their plenty but their need.”

You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead.

Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.

If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don’t write, because our culture has no use for it.

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

The enemy of a love is never outside, it’s not a man or woman, it’s what we lack in ourselves.

Life is a full circle, widening until it joins the circle motions of the infinite.

In chaos, there is fertility.

There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.

You cannot save people, you can only love them.

It was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.

Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.

What is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is.

What everyone forgets is that passion is not merely a heightened sensual fusion but a way of life which produces, as in the mystics, an ecstatic awareness of the whole of life.

I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.

We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.

When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.

It is better to die of hunger having lived without grief and fear, than to live with a troubled spirit, amid abundance.

So long as freedom from hunger is only half achieved, so long as two thirds of the nations have food deficits, no citizen, no nation can afford to be satisfied.

The people that want to step into their greatness are hungry.

The war against hunger is truly mankind’s war of liberation.

If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.

You gotta be hungry.

You were created on purpose for a purpose. There is a thirst and hunger in your heart that is real. Pay attention to it.

Remember that wanting something is not enough. You must hunger for it.