Your emotional life is not written in cement during childhood. You write each chapter as you go along.

It is easier to act yourself into a new way of feeling than to feel yourself into a new way of acting.

The supply of interpretations, like that of advice, greatly exceeds the need for them.

When the satisfaction or the security of another person becomes as significant to one as one's own satisfaction or security, then the state of love exists. Under no other circumstances is a state of love present, regardless of the popular usage of the term.

If you have to maintain self-esteem by pulling down the standing of others, you are extraordinarily unfortunate.

When people approach you angrily, you take them very seriously, and, if you're like me, with the faint suggestion that you can be angry too, and that you would like to know what the shooting is about

Everybody has a great deal of experience in living. But no one lives in anything like the highest style of the art; and it is very disconcerting to notice how badly one lives in the sense of the extent to which fatigue and other discomforts are connected with one's important dealings with other people.