“Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.”

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.

Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.

There’s no need to rush, what’s meant for you, will always arrive on time.

When I arrived, at first a lot of people were like, ‘This kid is different.’

When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point. And exactly the same thing is true in meditation. Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.

Foolish is the man who says that he fears death, not because it will cause pain when it arrives but because anticipation of it is painful.

It is better to travel, than to arrive.

There are many things that are essential to arriving at true peace of mind, and one of the most important is faith, which cannot be acquired without prayer.

By prevailing over all obstacles and distractions, one may unfailingly arrive at his chosen goal or destination.

You can copy someone else’s paper but you’ll never know how you arrived at your answer.