“Laughter is sunshine, it chases winter from the human face.”

“Don’t give up. Only your practice of love and awareness will take you to liberation. Everything else, no matter how much you can argue for its importance and value, will only keep you spinning round and round in your life continually looking for the next thing to satisfy your endless desires.”

“We want someone that we can be at our weakest with, and not feel so. That our vulnerability isn’t taken advantage of, but taken care of.”

“Wherever you are, I hope you’re listening. Kindness is easy, as you know perfectly well. Because with kindness, you’re not really giving anything. I’m talking about giving your soul to your fellow human beings—and not just to the ones you love. I’m talking about compassion. Compassion means “to suffer with”: to suffer because someone else is suffering, to endure with the other, or in place of the other. You have no idea what that even means. 

"Forgive yourself for needing tough lessons."

“Everyone wishes to be loved, but in the event, nearly no one can bear it. Everyone desires love but also finds it impossible to believe that he deserves it.”