If I hold back any part of me, I suppress that much energy and potential. The question I want to ask myself now is not what behavior is good or bad, but in what ways would I express myself with greater energy if I didn't hold back.

We are the only authority on what is good for us. Once we see this, we feel an enormous peace and freedom.

Ultimately, my character is defined by the quality of my sensitivity to other people. I exist in equilibrium. I am here to the degree I am there.

Love does not exclude; it embraces. If we don't love someone outside ourselves, then very simply, we do not love ourselves.

There are people whose feelings and well-being are within our influence. We can never escape this fact.

Boredom or discontent is useful to me when I acknowledge it and see clearly my assumption that there's something else I would rather be doing.

I must act now without knowing the results. Thus, I give my actions their only possible meaning for me.

I will be what I will be - and I am now what I am. Here is where I will devote my energy.

I don't want to work to make money. I want to work to work.

How genuine is my capacity for love if there is no one for me to love, to laugh with, to treat tenderly, to be trusted by?