wisdom

"I used to think how lucky she was to have me, but now I realize that’s backwards. A spirit of gratitude yields patience, love, and forgiveness."

"Wherever you are, however you got there, if it's good, you're meant to be there either because you earned it or life led you there and you were smart enough to hold on."

"I love letting her know how much she means to me. A love in secret is but a shadow that’s cold and lonely."

"I would rather carry around a plastic bag with five thousand Euro inside, than carry around a Louis Vuitton/Gucci/Prada bag with only one hundred Euro inside!"

"Nobody is wired wrong, because there’s no wrong and right in the way we are."

"A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday."

"Wise? No, I simply learned to think."

"Happiness is never there to stay [...] Happiness is merely a respite offered by inquietude."

"Don't let others box you into their idea of what they think you should be. A confined identity is a miserable way to exist. Be you and live free. Trust that in living true to yourself, you will attract people that support and love you, just as you are."

"How many of us are swept away by what I have come to call an 'active laziness'?It consists of cramming our lives with compulsive activity, so that there is no time at all to confront the real issues."

"Everyone's allowed to be in love with the wrong person at some point. In fact, it's a mistake not to be."

"A clear vision, backed by definite plans, gives you a tremendous feeling of confidence and personal power."

"There is another alphabet, whispering from every leaf, singing from every river, shimmering from every sky."

"Voici mon secret. Il est très simple: on ne voit bien qu'avec le cœur. L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux."

"Unreturned love is like trying to make a sandwich with one slice of bread. Don’t stress—fold it in half and love yourself."

"Where are you? HereWhat time is it? NowWhat are you? This moment."

"A person is a person through other persons.None of us comes into the world fully formed. We would not know how to think, or walk, or speak, or behave as human beings unless we learned it from other human beings. We need other human beings in order to be human. I am because other people are. A person is entitled to a stable community life, and the first of these communities is the family."

"For this feeling of wonder shows that you are a philosopher, since wonder is the only beginning of philosophy."

"My past is black and my future is blank. My only canvas is the present. The best color to paint with is love."

"I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy."