Can one make the future a substitute for the present? And what guarantee have we that the future will be any better if we neglect the present?

there is no sin punished more implacably by nature than the sin of resistance to change.

...the only continuity possible in life, as in love, is in growth, in fluidity - in freedom. The only real security is... living in the present and accepting it as it is now.

People talk about love as if it were something you could give, like an armful of flowers.

When one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too. If one is out of touch with oneself, then one cannot touch others. Only when one is connected to one's own core is.

Certain environments, certain modes of life, and certain rules of conduct are more conducive to inner and outer harmony than others. There are, in fact, certain roads that one may follow. Simplification is one of them.

One can never pay in gratitude; one can only pay 'in kind' somewhere else in life.