Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and read more

Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as we expect it to be but as it is--is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.

The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband being big enough to keep his mouth shut, to read more

The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband being big enough to keep his mouth shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.

I started out with nothing. I still have most of it.

I started out with nothing. I still have most of it.

Feelings are everywhere -- be gentle.

Feelings are everywhere -- be gentle.

The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.

The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.

Secret admirers make us believe things about ourselves that we always hoped were true.

Secret admirers make us believe things about ourselves that we always hoped were true.

Is there any one maxim which ought to be acted upon throughout one's whole life? Surely the maxim of loving read more

Is there any one maxim which ought to be acted upon throughout one's whole life? Surely the maxim of loving kindness is such: Do not unto others what you would not they should do unto you.

We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.

I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.