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“To one's enemies: "I hate myself more than you ever could.”

“Silence is the language of God, all else is poor translation.”

“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.”

“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”

“which is better - to be born stupid into an intelligent society or intelligent into an insane one?”

“It isn't a matter of forgetting. What one has to learn is how to remember and yet be free of the past.”

“I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.”

“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.”

“Anybody who's ever been broken up with, or had their heart stepped on or ripped out of them; you question everything you've based your whole life on. It's like, is anything real? Cause nothing 's more real than that, and now it's gone.”

“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.”

“What you seek is seeking you.”

“Being alive is about messing up gloriously, and I will fight for that ability to gloriously mess up because I don't believe that humans are statues or sculptures.”

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

“Science and religion are not at odds. Science is simply too young to understand.”

“We accept the love we think we deserve.”

“All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.”

“The feelings that hurt most, the emotions that sting most, are those that are absurd: the longing for impossible things, precisely because they are impossible; nostalgia for what never was; the desire for what could have been; regret over not being someone else; dissatisfaction with the world's existence. All these half-tones of the soul's consciousness create a raw landscape within us, a sun eternally setting on what we are.”

“We must be willing to fail and to appreciate the truth that often "Life is not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be lived."”

“The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.”