If you don't care about what people think, you already passed the first step of success.

Every human being has inside them something more important than him or herself - his or her Gift.

Love is a complicated path, and that path can lead us up to heaven or hurl us down into hell.

At some point, we have each said through our tears, “I’m suffering for a love that’s not worth it.” We suffer because we feel we are giving more than we receive. We suffer because our love is going unrecognized. We suffer because we are unable to impose our own rules. But ultimately there is no good reason for our suffering, for in every love lies the seed of our growth.

And I began to feel sorry for myself; for so many years, my drawer full of memories had held the same old stories.

Absolute freedom does not exist; what does exist is the freedom to choose anything you like and then commit yourself to that decision.

she wanted to dance with someone who would embrace her in the way she dreamed of since adolescence.