Risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.
Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.
It's not enough to have lived. We should be determined to live for something. May I suggest that it be creating joy for others, sharing what we have for the betterment of personkind, bringing hope to the lost and love to the lonely.
When love is accompanied with deep intimacy, it raises us to the highest level of human experience. In this exalted space, we can surrender our egos, become vulnerable and know levels of joy and well-being unique among life experiences. We attain a glimpse of the rapture that can be ours. Boundaries are blurred, there are no limitations and we rejoice in union. We become one and, at the same time, both.
Those who think they know it all have no way of finding out they don't.
Nine times out of ten, when you extend your arms to someone, they will step in, because basically they need precisely what you need.
Change. It has the power to uplift, to heal, to stimulate, surprise, open new doors, bring fresh experience and create excitement in life. Certainly it is worth the risk.
Live nutty. Just occasionally. Just once in a while. And see what happens. It brightens up the day.
Live now. When you are eating, eat. When you are loving, love. when you are talking with someone, talk. When you are looking at a flower, look. Catch the beauty of the moment!
Only when we give joyfully, without hesitation or thought of gain, can we truly know what love means.
Value yourself. The only people who appreciate a doormat are people with dirty shoes.
Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.
When you love someone you do not love them all the time, in exactly the same way, from moment to moment. It is an impossibility. It is even a lie to pretend to. And yet this is exactly what most of us demand. We have so little faith in the ebb and flow of life, of love, of relationships. We leap at the flow of the tide and resist in terror its ebb. We are afraid it will never return. We insist on permanency, on duration, on continuity; when the only continuity possible, in life as in love, is in growth, in fluidity - in freedom
People are not here to meet your expectations.
One cannot give what he does not possess. To give love you must possess love. To love others you must love yourself.
Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self - a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change - the willful act of making the change, doing something.
Education should be the process of helping everyone to discover his uniqueness, to teach him how to develop that uniqueness, and then to show him how to share it because that’s the only reason for having anything.
The most important thing in the world is that you make yourself a loving person, because this is what you will be giving away.
A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.
We are not for everyone and everyone is not for us. The question is, 'If we cannot be with another, can we at least not hurt them? Can we, at least, find a way to coexist?'
It is the foregiver who is freed in foregiving.
Compassion is an act of tolerance where kindness and forgiveness reign. When we make the compassionate choice, we enhance the dignity of each individual, which is the very essence of loving them.
What do years have to do with age?
Find the person who will love you because of your differences and not in spite of them and you have found a lover for life.
It's amazing - you may not realize it, but so much of what you are not is because you are literally standing in your own way of becoming. And what I'm pleading with you about is, get the hell out of your own way.
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