If I reveal myself without worrying about how others will respond, then some will care, though others may not. But who can love me, if no one knows me? I must risk it, or live alone.

If I reveal myself without worrying about how others will respond, then some will care, though others may not. But who can love me, if no one knows me? I must risk it, or live alone.

Transformations require that we let go of familiar ways of doing things, without yet knowing what we will do next.

Each person's only hope for improving his lot rests on recognizing the true nature of his or her basic personality, surrendering to it, and becoming who he or she really is.

He prefers the security of known misery to the misery of unfamiliar insecurity.

One can choose life, or choose death. Having chosen life, I must live it as it is.

You can't make anyone love you. You just have to reveal who you are and take your chances. (105)