I am talking to you, but the moment I am talking to you, the universe is being created and destroyed.

I love you', though, were three words she had often heard during her twenty-two years, and it seemed to her that they were now completely devoid of meaning, because they had never turned into anything serious or deep, never translated into a lasting relationship.

LIVE. If you live, god will live with you. If you refuse to run his risks, he'll retreat to that distant heaven and be merely a subject for philosophical speculation.

Go and get your things,' he said. 'Dreams mean work.

I've met a man and fallen in love with him. I allowed myself to fall in love for one simple reason: I'm not expecting anything to come of it. I know that, in three months' time, I'll be far away and he'll be just a memory, but I couldn't stand living without love any longer; I had reached my limit.

When something undesirable grows in my soul, I ask God to give me the courage to mercilessly pluck it out.

Investing a lot of time and money in external beauty and caring little about internal beauty.