“If you start by promising what you don’t even have yet, you’ll lose your desire to work towards getting it.”

We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation.

It’s the simple things in life that are the most extraordinary.

No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn’t know it.

Real love is composed of ecstasy and agony.

Forgive but do not forget, or you will be hurt again. Forgiving changes the perspectives. Forgetting loses the lesson.

I’ve learned that waiting is the most difficult bit, and I want to get used to the feeling, knowing that you’re with me, even when you’re not by my side.

Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us. When we try to understand it, it leaves us feeling lost and confused.

God always offers us a second chance in life.

Remember that wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure.

All you have to do is to pay attention; lessons always arrive when you are ready, and if you can read the signs, you will learn everything you need to know in order to take the next step.

Nothing in this world happens by chance.

Love is always new. Regardless of whether we love once, twice, or a dozen times in our life.

People give flowers as present because flowers contain true meaning of love.

Don’t think about what you’ve left behind.

When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better, too.

Don’t allow your mind to tell your heart what to do. The mind gives up easily.

It is not for its own sake that men desire money, but for the sake of what they can purchase with it.

Man naturally desires, not only to be loved, but to be lovely; or to be that thing which is the natural and proper object of love.

Duty without love is deplorable. Duty with love is desirable. Love without duty is Divine.

A man’s wealth must be determined by the relation of his desires and expenditures to his income. If he feels rich on ten dollars, and has everything else he desires, he really is rich.

LIFE + DESIRE = MAN; LIFE – DESIRE = GOD.

We should always speak what would please the man of whom we expect a favor, like the hunter who sings sweetly when he desires to shoot a deer.

We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.

Desire is storm, greed is whirlpool, pride is precipice, attachment is avalanche, ego is volcano. Discard desire and you are liberated.