In the modern industrialized Western world, where I come from, the person whom you choose to marry is perhaps the single most vivid representation of your own personality. Your spouse becomes the most gleaming possible mirror through which your emotional individualism is reflected back to the world. There is no choice more intensely personal after all, than whom you choose to marry; that choice tells us, to a large extent, who you are.

Unfenced by law, the unmarried lover can quit a bad relationship at any time. But you - the legally married person who wants to escape doomed love - may soon discover that a significant portion of your marriage contract belongs to the State, and that it sometimes takes a very long while for the State to grant you your leave.

I am stronger than depression and I am braver than loneliness and nothing will ever exhaust me.

I will not harbor unhealthy thoughts anymore.

I think there's more real in the unreal than there is in the real.

God is an experience of supreme love.

It is merely this world that is chaotic, bringing changes to us all that nobody could have anticipated.