I had to learn how to love myself and trust me it’s not the type of thing that happens over night.

Not every instance requires a response. Truth resides silently in the seat of power.

Understanding is a pure glass of water. All great truths have no taste. Hints of sweetness are coloured by the need for amazement.

Without love life is impossible.

Over time, this growing tendency of like marrying like will only reinforce clustering and geographic sorting along class lines, giving the emerging map of social, economic, and cultural segregation even greater permanence.

It sounds like a lot when you summarize it, but I don’t do all of it every day. If you want to know the truth, most days I feel like I’m miserably behind and only...

In your love I dive to find the nectar of life.

I think the best fiction is about the absolute irrepressibility of love in the face of every circumstance to the contrary. Even in someone as dark, on the face of it, as Faulkner often is,...

Sometimes the best way to learn a lesson isn’t just hearing the words, but putting it into practice by experimenting with it and finding its truth for yourself instead of taking someone else’s word for...

The best way to love someone is to be kind and trust.

Your fear of the truth does not hide or dilute it.

How much of what is there do you allow yourself to see?

Let me open my heart so that everyone can love. Let me love so that everyone can open their hearts.

Why does she have to be such a…such a…””Go on,” I said. “The truth is never cussing, Son.””Such a bitch!

I never lie,” I said offhand. “At least not to those I don’t love.

Love is the only connection you have with the world, so connect with everything and everyone with love.

True friends will always push you towards the great possibilities of your future, false friends will always chain you to the mistakes in your past.

But it’s not enough. I don’t look human. If I went outside, people would scream at the sight of me. Looks matter to most people. That’s reality in the world.””Not my world.”I petted Pilot. “I...

The universe is a mirror; however you look at it, it will look back to you exactly the same way. So extend your hand with love. The universe will hug you with a loving heart.

Once I made weapons carved from stone, I tied the weight to a wooden handle, a club to break the bones of my enemy.Then I became wiser…and sharpened the stone to a point and then...

Turgenev was a very serious fellow but he could make me laugh because a truth first encountered can be very funny. When someone else’s truth is the same as your truth, and he seems to...

Spark the dreams you have with integrity and honesty. It’s gonna catch up with excellence if you make it revive in truthfulness in the midst of this world of falsehood!

There are two kinds of truth: the truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The first of these is science, and the second is art. Neither is independent of the...

Every decent con man knows that the simplest truth is more powerful than even the most elaborate lie.

The mind creates a story in a strange way. Love keeps us together in this eternal play.

We are all insects. Groping towards something terrible or divine-

…the best way to know the Truth or Beauty is to try to express it. And what is the purpose of existence Here or Yonder but to discover truth and beauty and express it, i.e.,...

I am loving just to live. I am living just to love. Love is a universal resolve.

Without language, they have no lies. Thus they have no future.

The Amorous Shepherd is a fruitless interlude, but those few poems are among the world’s greatest love poems, because they’re love poems about love, not about being poems. The poet loves because he loves, not...

Live as if you are the Jesus and learn as if you are the Aristotle.

Neel cuts in: “Where’d you grow up?””Palo Alto,” she says. From there to Stanford to Google: for a girl obsessed with the outer limits of human potential, Kat has stayed pretty close to home. Neel...

I think that fame removes true happiness. Because when you are famous, people know you for who they think you are and when you are happy, it’s because people have met you and see you...

Not the formal schooling but the journey through the life is the best teacher.

There is nothing to writing, all you have to do is, sit on the computer and bleed your thoughts.

You can carry around with you a basket full of magical apples; but when people do not recognize magic, they will ask you to go and pick earthly apples and then they will laugh at...

don’t just listen to people crying, hear the reasons why they cry

The greater part of the truth is always hidden, in regions out of the reach of cynicism.

He looked very old. He looked, James thought, getting his head now against the Lighthouse, now against the waste of waters running away into the open, like some old stone lying on the sand; he...

Your thoughts are certain kinds of seeds in your life. You can water them and allow them to grow on fertile soil. Or, you can let them diminish and wither amongst the weeds. Be careful...

Some say ignorance is bliss, I say love is.

Tragedy of life is not to have many purposes in life, but to have no purpose in life.

When denial is in play, a person simply refuses to recognize the truth, no matter how apparent.

Never chase a person, because if they want to be in your life, they will. It amazes me how people go out their way for someone who does nothing for them, doesn’t encourage or support...

Victory is possible, sisters, not by figuring out how to make this an easy process, but by choosing – over and over and over again – the absolute power available through God’s truth.

You are a dancer in this great stage we call life. Your imagination is the writer and thoughts are the director of the dance drama. So unleash your thoughts to dramatize your dance.

Love, happiness, peace – these are not final destinations. They are in every moment, every breath, everything.

When I saw that Moses’ version of the Genesis of the world did not fit sufficiently in many ways with Aristotle and the rest of the philosophers, I began to have doubts about the truth...

Lead us toward a speech, which is as beautiful as silence, and toward a silence, which is as beautiful as the sweetest and truest of words. (119)

Measure of life is not by the wealth or splendor but by the love you have given away.