“IT happened. There is no avoiding it, no forgetting. No running away, or flying, or burying, or hiding.”
“The end of a melody is not its goal: but nonetheless, had the melody not reached its end it would not have reached its goal either. A parable.”
“A person was like a city. You couldn t let a few less desirable parts put you off the whole. There may be bits you don t like, a few dodgy side streets and suburbs, but the good stuff makes it worthwhile.”
“My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations.”
“You have to give up! you have to give up! You have to realize that someday you will die, Until you know that, you are useless!”
“Nothing brings down walls as surely as acceptance.”
“Not being understood may be taken as a sign that there is much in one to understand.”
“Reason lost the battle, and all I could do was surrender and accept I was in love.”
“The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for. ”
“Falling in love was simple; one had only to yield. Digesting another person, however, and sustaining love, was bloody work, and not a soft job.”
“The moment you become miserly you are closed to the basic phenomenon of life: expansion, sharing. The moment you start clinging to things, you have missed the target--you have missed. Because things are not the target, you, your innermost being, is the target--not a beautiful house, but a beautiful you; not much money, but a rich you; not many things, but an open being, available to millions of things.”
“it s best to accept life as it really is and not as I imagined it to be”
“To come to know that nothing is good, nothing is bad, is a turning point; it is a conversion. You start looking in; the outside reality loses meaning. The social reality is a fiction, a beautiful drama; you can participate in it, but then you don’t take it seriously. It is just a role to be played; play it as beautifully, as efficiently, as possible. But don’t take it seriously, it has nothing of the ultimate in it.”
“She talked about wanting to be a part of something, wanting to be desired, to be special , craving to be loved. She talked about experiencing the kind of loneliness so immense it could swallow you up. She called it loneliness that crowds couldn t cure .”
“Have a big enough heart to love unconditionally, and a broad enough mind to embrace the differences that make each of us unique.”
“Soldiers live. He dies and not you, and you feel guilty, because you re glad he died, and not you. Soldiers live, and wonder why.”
“The best thing about coming out is, it s totally liberating. You feel like you ve made this incredible discovery about yourself and you want to share it and be open and honest and not spend all your time wondering how is this person going to react, or should I be careful around this person, or what will the neighbors say? And it s more. It s about getting past the question of what s wrong with me, to knowing there s nothing wrong, that you were born this way. You re a normal person and a beautiful person and you should be proud of who you are. You deserve to live with dignity and show people your pride.”