For a minute, the fantasy frightened her, but ultimately, this fear saved her from feeling alone.

Closure is just as delusive-it is the false hope that we can deaden our living grief.

A lot of people, especially psychoanalysts, assume that happiness can only be found in a couple - but not all of us are made for a relationship.

we all try to silence painful emotions. but when we succeed in feeling nothing we lose the only means we have of knowing what hurts us and why.

Being loved is the problem, because love is a demand - when you're loved, someone wants more of you.

Don't you know no one can escapethe power of creatures reaching outwith breath alone?

The only way to experience true wellbeing is to turn inward. This is what yoga means - not up, not out, but in. The only way out is in.

There are two things that kill a genius - a fatal disease and contentment.

Advice is given freely because so much of it is worthless.

Wisdom is something that comes, little by little, through a lot of listening.

Love is above the laws, above the opinion of men; it is the truth, the flame, the pure element, the primary idea of the moral world.

The power of nature exists in its silence. Human words cannot encode the meaning because human language has access only to the shadow of meaning.

Your only limitations are those you set up in your mind, or permit others to set up for you.

The sad truth is as difficult as the first mile can be for entrepreneurs, it is doubly tough inside most large companies as innovators can face some significant headwinds.

Lafayette saw himself as the protector of royalty; they [the king and his family] considered him its gaoler.