“Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.”

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.

Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.

She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not dare to be herself.

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.

Give yourself time to rest + heal + then rise.

Do not settle in the dirt. Get up and make something from it.

I’ve been taught that it will be such an extraordinary story if it ends with forgiveness.

Don’t be afraid of missing opportunities. Behind every failure is an opportunity somebody wishes they had missed.

It’s not about how much you sleep. It’s what you do while you’re awake.

Help inspire people to realize they are capable of changing the world.

Discount the obvious, bet on the unexpected.

At an early age, my mother gave me this feeling that anything is possible, and I believe that.