Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. And then love will come to you, then it comes to you.

I miss the animal buoyancy of New York, the animal vitality. I did not mind that it had no meaning and no depth.

From the backstabbing co-worker to the meddling sister-in-law, you are in charge of how you react to the people and events in your life. You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead. Take control and choose to focus on what is important in your life. Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.

Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.

I only regret that everybody wants to deprive me of the journal, which is the only steadfast friend I have, the only one which makes my life bearable, because my happiness with human beings is so precarious, my confiding moods rare, and the least sign of non-interest is enough to silence me. In the journal I am at ease.

Mature people relate to each other without the need to merge.

All the art of analysis consists in saying a truth only when the other person is ready for it, has been prepared for it by an organic process of gradation and evolution.