1. “The earth is heavy and opaque without dreams.”
2. “Violence is a symptom of impotence.”
3. “Life is a full circle, widening until it joins the circle motions of the infinite.”
4. “Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.”
5. “Mature people relate to each other without the need to merge.”
6. “You fall in love with people’s minds.”
7. “Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.”
8. “Everything but happiness is neurosis.”
9. “Dreams are necessary to life.”
10. “Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.”
11. “You live out the confusions until they become clear.”
12. “Good things happen to those who hustle.”
13. “We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
14. “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
15. “When you possess light within, you see it externally.”
16. “We have been poisoned by fairy tales.”
17. “People living deeply have no fear of death.”
18. “When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.”
19. “I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.”
20. “The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.”
21. “Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least lie ourselves.”
22. “I hate men who are afraid of women’s strength.”
23. “Compassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity.”
24. “We are never trapped unless we choose to be.”
25. “Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious one should preserve.”
26. “The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.”
27. “Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source.”
28. “I believe one writes because one has to create a world in which one can live.”
29. “Pain is something to master, not to wallow in.”
30. “Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.”
