“When we cling to pain we end up punishing ourselves.”

Life is a paradise for those who love many things with a passion.

After all, the wrong is done. It is past and cannot be changed. We have only the present and the future upon which to move forward.

Loving relationships, though necessary for life, health, and growth, are among the most complicated skills.

In a crazy world, it’s only your insanity that will keep you sane.

We need not be afraid to touch, to feel, to show emotion. The easiest thing in the world is to be what you are, what you feel.

Choose the way of life. Choose the way of love. Choose the way of caring. Choose the way of goodness. It’s up to you. It’s your choice.

We always think of failure as the antithesis of success, but it isn’t. Success often lies just the other side of failure.

We seem to gain wisdom more readily through our failures than through our successes.

We are no longer puppets being manipulated by outside powerful forces – we become the powerful force ourselves.

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.

Clinging to the past is the problem. Embracing change is the answer.

He clings to his solitude, to his affected indifference and his grown-up ways, but it’s just an act, so as never, never to show his real feelings.

When we cling to what we know, we miss how could we grow.

If we cling to belief in God, we cannot likewise have faith, since faith is not clinging but letting go.

You only lose what you cling to.

I’ll be a president who pushes toward the future. Not one who clings to the past.

How we need another soul to cling to, another body to keep us warm. To rest and trust; to give your soul in confidence: I need this, I need someone to pour myself into.

We live in a vast and awesome universe in which, daily, suns are made and worlds destroyed, where humanity clings to an obscure clod of rock.