“To know yourself less beloved than you love, is a dreadful feeling”

“The better you feel about yourself, the less you feel the need to show off.”

“Love doesn't demand perfection, but it does ask you to give yourself with less reserve than you'd prefer.”

“You know you've checked into Heartbreak Hotel for real when you feel less desirable than uncooked fish.”

“And what did you want? To call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on the earth.”

“Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.”

“You know how you finish a bag of chips and you hate yourself? You know you’ve done nothing good for yourself. That’s the same feeling, and you know it is, after some digital binge. You feel wasted and hollow and diminished.”

“You have to keep your reflexes so that when you want it — it’s there. When you want to move — you are moving. And when you move, you are determined to move! Not accepting even one inch less than 100 percent of your honest feelings. Not anything less than that. So that is the type of thing you have to train yourself into. To become one with your feelings so that, when you think — it is.”

“Ask yourself: Is there any way I can become even more loving than I am? Can I fill my heart with more loving kindness? Can you, despite the fact that there are less than perfect people in our world, think loving thoughts about yourself and about others? Spread that love around as far as your mind will allow!”

“One thing I've learned in all these years is not to make love when you really don't feel it; there's probably nothing worse you can do to yourself than that.”