“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.”

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.

There must be something strangely sacred about salt. It is in our tears and in the sea.

But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

Your joy can fill you only as deeply as your sorrow has carved you.

Your joy can fill you only as deeply as your sorrow has carved you.

And God said, Love your enemy, & I obeyed Him & loved myself.

Nature reaches out to us with welcoming arms, and bids us enjoy her beauty; but we dread her silence and rush into the crowded cities, there to huddle like sheep fleeing from a ferocious wolf.

When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

Yesterday is but today’s memory, and tomorrow is today’s dream.

If you sing of beauty though alone in the heart of the desert you will have an audience.

All can hear, but only the sensitive can understand.

All can hear, but only the sensitive can understand.

The giving and receiving of pleasure is a need and an ecstasy.

It takes a minute to have a crush on someone, an hour to like someone, and a day to love someone but it takes a lifetime to forget someone.

Between what is said and not meant, and what is meant and not said, most of love is lost.

Observe the wonders as they occur around you. Don’t claim them. Feel the artistry moving through and be silent.

Integrity is doing the right thing when nobody’s watching, and doing as you say you would do.

If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.

In the Third Reich evil lost its distinctive characteristic by which most people had until then recognized it. The Nazis redefined it as a civil norm.

My interest in this pack of failures betrays my character.

Modesty, temperance, and self-denial, are the sober offspring of reason.

I was born and reborn continuously, different people draw different me.

Perhaps their attacks on my character meant that the hour was ripe for my career to begin in earnest.

Pope’s summary of their character to be just, that every woman is at heart a rake.