“All life stinks and you must embrace that with compassion.”

“You must give up the life you planned in order to have the life that is waiting for you.”

“We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”

“He must put aside his pride, his virtue, beauty and life and bow or submit to the absolutely intolerable.”

“Love is the burning point of life, and since all life is sorrowful, so is love. The stronger the love, the more the pain. Love itself is pain, you might say -the pain of being truly alive. [...] But love bears all things. [...] Love itself is pain, you might say - the pain of being truly alive.”

“If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track which has been there all the while waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one that you ARE living.”

“If you do follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Follow your bliss and don't be afraid, and doors will open where you didn't know they were going to be.”