The choice to love is the choice to connect — to find ourselves in the other.

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we are alone.

Pretend you’re more obsessed with this moment and a little bit less with the way it ends.

You live out the confusions until they become clear.

One shouldn't just hope to be treated well: one must insist on it.

Resilience — the ability to brush off pain.

Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake.

Only one mountain can know the core of another mountain.

I am all the things I have ever loved.

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

Take forgiveness slowly. Don't blame yourself for being slow. Peace will come.