I’d rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.

Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love; it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so.

You can’t buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

The question is not, ‚Do you have a problem?‘ The question is, ‚Does the problem have you?‘

The reason children accept discipline from their parents is because they know their parents love them.

What’s the good of drawing in the next breath if all you do is let it out and draw in another?

It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are… than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise.

The difficult thing is that vulnerability is the first thing I look for in you and the last thing I’m willing to show you. In you, it’s courage and daring. In me, it’s weakness.

I think country music is popular – has been popular and will always be popular because I think a lot of real people singing about a lot of real stuff about real people. And it’s simple enough for people to understand it. And we kind of roll with the punches.

One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one’s death, one dies one’s life.

If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.

What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

I’ve learned that usually, the less I know about other people, the better off I am.

Yeah, I’m an open book.

I made my first white women friends in college; they loved me and were loyal to our friendship, but I understood, as they did, that they were white women and that whiteness mattered.

I can be a cruel person.

One might say that our words are a movie screen that reveals what we have been thinking and the attitudes we have.

It’s a very strange thing being recognized or looked upon as someone special.

Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.

Love is the capacity to take care, to protect, to nourish.

The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love.

You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.

I never set out to be weird. It was always other people who called me weird.

I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And what do I do with the time I’ve got left?

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

My confidence is easy to shake. I am very well aware of all of my flaws. I am aware of all the insecurities that I have.

Your Highest Self only wants you to be at peace. It does not judge, compare, or demand that you defeat anyone or be better than anyone.

If I make a fool of myself, who cares? I’m not frightened by anyone’s perception of me.

Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.

One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.

People just overshoot trying to find God. They’re going outside and trying everything. They don’t realize that it’s right inside themselves.

Though lovers be lost, love shall not.

I think my vice would be outdoing myself.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

The truth is God created us to have relationship with us. He wants to love us and take care of us, and He wants us to love Him. That’s where our walk with Christ has to start.

I had no talent for science. What was infinitely worse: all my fraternity brothers were engineers.

It is important to remember yourself.

It’s different from being 21 and you think there’s endless amount of opportunities. At 33, the ending is much, much closer.

I get naturally uncomfortable when I’m put under a magnifying glass.

Our brains are either our greatest assets or our greatest liabilities.

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.

The voice I use is a very old hardware speech synthesizer made in 1986. I keep it because I have not heard a voice I like better and because I have identified with it.

Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant.

You are the universe, you aren’t in the universe.

Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be.

If you’re embarrassed because you have some notion about how men are supposed to behave, and it doesn’t include weeping, then you have some personal work to do.

Everyone calls me Bruno; they don’t ever call me Peter – that was just my government name.

I’m definitely gaining new fans, and that’s the key of any success… gain more love.

We know what we are, but know not what we may be.

It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.

A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.

How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.

Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.

I’ve been called a moron since I was about four. My father called me a moron. My grandfather said I was a moron. And a lot of times when I’m driving, I hear I’m a moron. I like being a moron.

Remember that creating a successful marriage is like farming: you have to start over again every morning.

If you know me, and you call me Stefani, you don’t really know me at all.

For me, one of the toughest things about Valentine’s Day is that it gets geared up as the day to profess your love. See, T-E-S-T – that’s a bad word that doesn’t go with L-O-V-E.

Self-actualized people are independent of the good opinion of others.

In the stillness of your presence, you can feel your own formless and timeless reality as the unmanifested life that animates your physical form. You can then feel the same life deep within every other human and every other creature. You look beyond the veil of form and separation. This is the realization of oneness. This is love.