“It's only when you become love — in other words, when you have dropped your illusions and attachments — that you will "know." As you identify less and less with the "me," you will be more at ease with everybody and with everything.”

“D’you know what happens when you hurt people?’ Ammu said. ‘When you hurt people, they begin to love you less. That’s what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.”

“When you hurt people, they begin to love you less. That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.”

“The happiness of the world is transitory. The less you become attached to the world, the more you enjoy peace of mind.”

“The smarter you are, the more you know, the less reason you have to trust or love or confide.”

“When you love someone, you hope — the more closely to be attached — that a catastrophe will strike your beloved.”

“That you will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do.”

“When you have only two minutes to say good-bye to the person you love most in the world, and you don’t know when you’ll see each other again, you can become logjammed with the effort to say and do and settle everything at once.”

“The more you look into and understand yourself, the less judgmental you become towards others.”

“the less you had, the more careful you had to be about everything you did have.”