You can grow up with literally nothing and you don't suffer if you know you're loved and valued.

Decision-making is very scary for me.

The truth is, sex doesn't mean that much to me now.

Being single, I thought would be fun, but it is terribly boring. And I am a romantic, but only when I am in love. I can't force it otherwise.

Trust leads to intimacy, which leads to healing and meaning. We can only be intimate to the degree we can make ourselves vulnerable. But when we open our hearts, we can get hurt.

Laughter kills fear, and without fear there can be no faith. For without fear of the devil there is no need for God.

I've learned very, very, very clearly that money does not equal happiness or security, either.

One must not trifle with love.

I get the feeling people respect me and that there is affection for me. That makes me happy.

Get out of bed forcing a smile. You may not smile because you are cheerful but if you will force yourself to smile you'll... be cheerful because you smile. Repeated experiments prove that when man...

The issue is not so much being loved but being loving which leads to the same wonderful feeling you experience when someone loves you.

That is the best - to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.

Say you were split, you were split in fragments and none of the pieces would talk to you. Wouldn't you want to be who you had been? Well, maybe I'd want that too.

Perhaps, the secret in reaching that ever eluding state of personal contentment, lies in finding the balance between not caring too much and not giving a damn.

The same numbness and disappointment every day sends some people looking for something tragic for proof of life.

Sure. You want to be touched, inspired and made to feel alive. But a relationship is like a bridge where you meet other people halfway. That means if you want to be touched, inspired and made to feel...

As highly sensitive individuals, we simply cannot stand feeling trapped, constricted or smothered in any way. We highly value our freedom and autonomy, making us particularly prone to staying single...

Missing tiny things in our life is more painful than things that we deserve in our live

Perhaps that's the whole point about infidelity, I suggested, not that one has sex but that by doing so one puts at risk someone else's happiness?

You're wasted on the occasional bout of missionary sex with a disinterested man.

I lost my family. If you have nothing to love, you have nothing to lose. Even your own life becomes meaningless.

There's something comforting about the companionship of animals in a new place.

... because there will never be any boy's wrist to tie the balloon of your helium heart to {it has floated high far away from the heavy stone of that unnameable boy in chicago}, you would never be...

Hello? Do you see me? I'm working as creatively as possible and you want more and more and I'm out of juice and if you send me one more email I'm going to walk into the ocean and swallow water.

Ghosts are just our minds telling us that subconsciously we feel guilty about something we should have done, would have done, but never took the time!

I found it hard to get motivated because I found it hard to care.

Stupid dire warnings of imminent doom. They always put me in a bad mood.

To you who eat a lot of rice because you're lonely, To you who sleep a lot because you're bored, To you who cry a lot because you are sad, I write this down. Chew on your feelings that are cornered...

Does someone else care as much about you as I do?

The worst thing you can do is to hate someone. The best thing you can do is to totally love someone without expectations.