“The greater your capacity to love, the greater your capacity to feel the pain.”

“Really try to follow what it is that you want to do and what your heart is telling you to do.”

“The best smell in the world is that man that you love.”

“Once you figure out who you are and what you love about yourself, I think it all kind of falls into place.”

“There are no regrets in life, just lessons.”

“To embrace suffering culminates in greater empathy, the capacity to feel what it is like for the other to suffer, which is the ground for unsentimental compassion and love. (157)”

“You are enjoying the gift of genius. When ordinary people are confronted with multiple tragedies, the pain scarcely increases. They simple can't feel the extra burdens. But you have a greater capacity for suffering.”