“Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations.”

A wonderful realization will be the day you realize that you are unique in all the world.

Life lived for tomorrow will always be just a day away from being realized.

If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.

Nine times out of ten, when you extend your arms to someone, they will step in, because basically they need precisely what you need.

I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate – it’s apathy. It’s not giving a damn.

The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don’t let them put you in that position.

The greatest risk is to risk nothing at all.

L.O.V.E. Such a good word. Such a limitless word. Such a limitless concept.

Relish love in your old age! Aged love is like aged wine; it becomes more satisfying, more refreshing, more valuable, more appreciated and more intoxicating!

The most unfortunate thing that happens to a person who fears failure is that he limits himself by becoming afraid to try anything new.

If you don’t like the scene you’re in, if you’re unhappy, if you’re lonely, if you don’t feel that things are happening, change your scene. Paint a new backdrop.

Happiness and love are just a choice away.

It is when we ask for love less and begin giving it more that the basis of human love is revealed to us.

We need to learn to let go as easily as we grasp and we will find our hands full and our minds empty.

To love others you must first love yourself.

Those who think they know it all have no way of finding out they don’t.

I’m not a body with a soul, I’m a soul that has a visible part called the body.

What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the print I have read in my life.

People cry not because they’re weak, it’s because they’ve been strong for too long.

Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.

Suffering brings experience.

Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.

Whoever falls, hatred will breed hatred.

Your growth scares people who don’t want to change.