“Everyone should have themselves regularly overwhelmed by Nature.”

I used to think that having many material things would increase one’s stock of happiness. I found that to be completely untrue. The trappings don’t make the man at all.

We’re now the results of our past actions, and in the future we’ll be the results of the actions we’re performing now.

It’s by your own actions you’re able to get more in a mess or out of one. It’s your own actions that relieve or bind you.

With every mistake, we must surely be learning.

My life belongs to me, my love belongs to those who can see it.

I’d rather be one of the devotees of God than one of the straight, so-called sane or normal people who just don’t understand that man is a spiritual being, that he has a soul.

The smile on your face is sometimes out of place, don’t mind no frowns, cheer down.

You can be standing right in front of the truth and not necessarily see it, and people only get it when they’re ready to get it.

For the forest to be green, each tree must be green.

We were talking about the space between us all and the people who hide themselves behind a wall of illusion. Never glimpse the truth – then it’s far too late when they pass away.

What’s often in your heart is the hardest to reach.

Once you realize something, then you can’t pretend you don’t know it any more.

The only thing we really have to work at in this life is how to manifest love.

It’s easier to hurt someone and make them cry, than it is to dry their eyes.

All I got to be is be happy.

Even if it’s being a Beatle for the rest of my life, it’s still only a temporary thing.

Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

I want to surrender to the feelings and shapes of words and not stop until I am clearly heard by myself and my God.

For my best poems were all written when I felt the worst. When I was happy, I didn’t write anything.

I can resist everything except temptation.

People magazine with a bag of sour cream and onion chips always makes be feel a bit trashy. But good trashy.

We have to reconceptualize and understand that the act of pursuing our dreams and being our full selves is what allows us to feel alive.

Choices will continually be necessary and — let us not forget — possible. Obedience to God is always possible. It is a deadly error to fall into the notion that when feelings are extremely strong we can do nothing but act on them.

I felt suicidal. I couldn’t stop crying. I remember thinking, wouldn’t it be great if the car crashed and I died?