Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.
Young people everywhere have been allowed to choose between love and a garbage disposal unit. Everywhere they have chosen the garbage disposal unit.
Love or hatred must constantly increase between two persons who are always together; every moment fresh reasons are found for loving or hating better.
Any time there is 'un-forgiveness' between people who love each other, there is suffering. Any time people face challenges that they really don't understand... there is suffering.
There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.
Life is not a competition between you and others; rather, it's a journey to continuously make the very best out of your true abilities in life.
One of the major differences between successful people and unsuccessful people is that they never stop trying in whatever it is that they do.
The presence of a big obstacle doesn't define a negative life, but failing to face and conquer it, is what builds a wall between oneself and a positive life.
There is a big difference between positive thinking and wishful thinking. Sitting around and wishing is definitely not going to create a miracle in your life.
In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: 'Is there someone new?'
There is no way that we know what is going on between the African American and the Asian American. We don't understand what an Indigenous American is. We don't understand what a Latino American is.
The essence of death is discovered in the gap between one moment ceasing and another one beginning. That essence is the wakefulness that is our true nature.
Competing is intense among humans, and within a group, selfish individuals always win. But in contests between groups, groups of altruists always beat groups of selfish individuals.
there exist a great parity between things inside books and things outside books. What are inside books, are not all that different from what are outside books
I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ.
To me, the main and most exciting thing about photography is to meet people. The picture is the result of what happened between me and them on the set.
A comparison between the triplets tentatively deduced by these methods with the changes in amino acid sequence produced by mutation shows a fair measure of agreement.
Where does discipline end? Where does cruelty begin? Somewhere between these, thousands of children inhabit a voiceless hell.
I've tried very hard and I've never found any resemblance between the people I know and the people in my novels.
Our brains have been designed to blur the line between self and other. It is an ancient neural circuitry that marks every mammal, from mouse to elephant.
I remember once, when I started writing for the alto saxophone, a saxophonist told me to think of it as being like a cross between an oboe and a viola, but louder.
