In marriage there are no manners to keep up and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.
The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.
We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage then to their disadvantage.
We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.
The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.
Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others and the delight in the recognition.
When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.
We must declare ourselves become known allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love but the emotion itself.
We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly we should die.
Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?
He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?
Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life ourselves and the world around us.
Our entire life - consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.
Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it.
We need to give each other the space to grow to be ourselves to exercise our diversity. We need to give each other space so that we may both give and receive such beautiful things as ideas openness dignity joy healing and inclusion.