“Love those you hate you.”

When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you’d like them to be.

Sometimes she did not know what she feared, what she desired: whether she feared or desired what had been or what would be, and precisely what she desired, she did not know.

True life is lived when tiny changes occur.

I simply want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself.

I often think that men don’t understand what is noble and what is ignorant, though they always talk about it.

The Kingdom of God is Within You.

Boredom: the desire for desires.

Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.

If you love me as you say you do, she whispered, ‘make it so that I am at peace.

Happiness consists of living each day as if it were the first day of your honeymoon and the last day of your vacation.

Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.

It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.

Everything intelligent is so boring.

Whatever our fate is or may be, we have made it and do not complain of it.

If you look for perfection, you’ll never be content.

My principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time.

Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.

I hate war. Absolutely, I hate war.

I’d hate to die twice. It’s so boring.

They hate me every season.

Hate, emotionalism, and frustration are not policies.

I don’t hate anything about Texas. I love my state. I love my area. It’s like home.

A true man hates no one.

The more popular you became, the more haters you acquired.