“When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you’ve got two new people.”

“I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.”

“It takes a level of self love, of dedication and determination to live your greatest life. So, look within. Look at every area of your life and ask yourself these questions: Am I on course? Am I growing mentally, emotionally and spiritually? Anything that is blocking that, anything that is preventing you from living your greatest life, make the tough decision to let it go.”

“You have dug your soul out of the dark, you have fought to be here; do not go back to what buried you.”

“For believe me! — the secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment is: to live dangerously!”

“Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.”

“I thought, lying there, that I might love him for the rest of my life. We did love each other—maybe we never said it, and maybe love was never something we were in, but it was something I felt. I loved him, and I thought, maybe I will never see him again, and I’ll be stuck missing him, and isn’t that so terrible.”

“I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.”

“Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive.”

“Listen to me, your body is not a temple. Temples can be destroyed and desecrated. Your body is a forest — thick canopies of maple trees and sweet scented wildflowers sprouting in the underwood. You will grow back, over and over, no matter how badly you are devastated.”