“But nothing is so strange when one is in love (and what was this except being in love?) as the complete indifference of other people.”
“When you love yourself, utterly and completely, all of yourself, what you will discover then is that you love others, all others, utterly and completely.”
“If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.”
“No one and nothing can harm us, child, except what we fear and love.”
“To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others”
“We ought to be able to combine opposites: the love of goodness with indifference to other people's opinions, a liking for work with indifference to fame, concern for our health with indifference to life.”