...the best way to know who we are is often to find out how others see us. This doesn't mean that we should do what others expect us to do, but it helps us to understand ourselves better.

Because all my life I've learned to suffer in silence - Athena

I've noticed that loneliness gets stronger when we try to face it down, but gets weaker when we simply ignore it.

Reason lost the battle, and all I could do was surrender and accept I was in love.

People no longer try to decipher the mystery of life but choose instead to be a part of it.

We are not worshipping anyone or anything, we are simply communing with creation.

When we venture in that unfamiliar sea, we trust blindly in those who guide us, believing that they know more than we do.

Love simply is.

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Faith is not Desire. Faith is Will. Desires are things that need to be satisfied, whereas Will is a force. Will changes the space around us, ...

We're living in an age in which everything is allowed, and democracy is being devoured and destroyed by that limitless freedom.

I’ve found a new kind of home in us, and I’m ready to move in for good.

We only radiate the inner self.

When love is strong a man and a woman can make their bed on a sword's blade. When love grows weak a bed of 60 cubits is not large enough.

When I was in architecture school at Princeton, the worst thing you could say about someone was that they were eclectic.

So when you're dealing with an existential threat like death or like climate change, if you see it as 'we are all toast anyway,' then denial is a pretty good way of coping.

When you're in touch with spirit, you put feeling over results.

I have not, in general, much belief in the ability of woman as a creative artist. Unwritten lyrics, as [Ralph Waldo] Emerson said once when we conversed on this subject, should be her forte.

Politics is but a narrow field.

You can tell the condition of a nation by looking at the status of its women.

Different brands are indeed different, and that's the challenge of developing recipes for a cooker. But just like anything, you have to be flexible.