Her inner darkness makes her desirable. She’s a mystery worth exploring.

A person is a fluid process, not a fixed and static entity; a flowing river of change, not a block of solid material; a continually changing constellation of potentialities, not a fixed quantity of traits.

It seems to me that the experiences that stay with you, the things you’ll always remember, aren’t the ones you can force, or go looking for. I’ve always thought of those things as the ones that somehow find you.

If you focus on success, you’ll have stress. But if you pursue excellence, success will be guaranteed.

There’s always something good coming. Remember that.

Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck.

Home is not where you are from, it is where you belong. Some of us travel the whole world to find it. Others, find it in a person.

Sometimes people are beautiful. Not in looks. Not in what they say. Just in what they are.

Most humans are never fully present in the now, because unconsciously they believe that the next moment must be more important than this one. But then you miss your whole life, which is never not now.

Is it really that bad if someone sees who you are? Why is it humans have a problem with letting someone else see that they are human?

There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves; it is not my nature. My attachments are always excessively strong.

I firmly believe in small gestures: pay for their coffee, hold the door for strangers, over tip, smile or try to be kind even when you don’t feel like it, pay compliments, chase the kid’s runaway ball down the sidewalk and throw it back to him, try to be larger than you are— particularly when it’s difficult. People do notice, people appreciate. I appreciate it when it’s done to (for) me. Small gestures can be an effort, or actually go against our grain (I’m not a big one for paying compliments…), but the irony is that almost every time you make them, you feel better about yourself. For a moment life suddenly feels lighter….