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“When we try to help people, we have to be aware: are we doing it for them, or are we doing it because we want their approval?
If you're doing it for them, just be there with them, and for them, in a space of love.”

“Of course I’ll hurt you. Of course you’ll hurt me. Of course we will hurt each other. But this is the very condition of existence. To become spring, means accepting the risk of winter. To become presence, means accepting the risk of absence.”

“The only reason something feels really good, it’s because you didn’t know it before. If you fall in love, it’s because it captures you and sweeps you off your feet. If you didn’t have anxiety, then you wouldn’t have passion for anything. The reason we have anxiety is because you care and you’re thoughtful.”

“You cannot live when you are untouchable. Life is vulnerability.”

“I only achieve simplicity with enormous effort.”

“Nature does not hurry yet it accomplishes everything.”

“The most noble kind of beauty is that which does not carry us away suddenly, whose attacks are not violent or intoxicating (this kind easily awakens disgust), but rather the kind of beauty which infiltrates slowly, which we carry along with us almost unnoticed, and meet up with again in dreams; finally, after it has for a long time lain modestly in our heart, it takes complete possession of us, filling our eyes with tears, our hearts with longing.”

“Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler.”

“Enjoy life. This is not a dress rehearsal.”

“The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions.”

“All idealism is mendacity in the face of what is necessary.”

“My formula for greatness in a human being is … that one wants nothing to be different, not forward, not backward, not in all eternity.
Not merely bear what is necessary, …but love it.”

“There are no beautiful surfaces without a terrible depth.”

“Only great pain is the ultimate liberator of the spirit….
I doubt that such pain makes us ‘better’; but I know that it makes us more profound.”

“The brief madness of bliss is experienced only by those who suffer the most deeply.”

“All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.”

“Those who are hardest to love need it the most.”

“You don't think, you are being thought by thought.”

“Anything that you resent and strongly react to in another is also in you.”