“Don't beat yourself up," said Charlotte. "True love can be so easily mistaken for other things-friendship, humane concern, indigestion...”

“Love was a rare thing, easily confused with a million other things, and if anybody knew this to be true it was him.”

“To an untrained eye, need and love were as easily mistaken for each other as the real master's painting and a forgery.”

“With the exception of love, friendship and the beauty of art, I don't see much else that can nurture human life.”

“Give up defining yourself - to yourself or to others. You won't die. You will come to life. And don't be concerned with how others define you. When they define you, they are limiting themselves, so it's their problem. Whenever you interact with people, don't be there primarily as a function or a role, but as the field of conscious Presence. You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are.”

“People don't fall in love so easily. So they don't hate so easily, either.”