We must be trying to learn who we really are rather than trying to tell ourselves who we should be.

To tell you my thoughts is to locate myself in a category. To tell you about my feelings is to tell you about me.

He who has no inclination to learn more will be very apt to think that he knows enough.

There are only two potential tragedies in life, and dying young isn't one of them. These are the two real tragedies: If you go through life and you don't love ... and if you go through life and you don't tell those whom you love that you love them.

There is no fixed, true and real person inside of you or me, precisely because being a person necessarily implies becoming a person, being in process.

It is essential that our love be liberating, not possessive. We must at all times give those we love the freedom to be themselves. Love affirms the other as other. It does not possess and manipulate another as mine.

I have to be honest in asking myself: Do I really want to know and do God's will? Or is it rather that I want God to do my will? Do I go to God with the assurance that I want only to know and do his will? Or do I rather first make my own plans and then insist that God make my dreams come true?