I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.

As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own.

I have to face life with a newly found passion. I must rediscover the irresistible will to learn, to live and to love.

Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you’d like them to be.

You must love in such a way that the person you love feels free.

The growth of the mind is the widening of the range of consciousness, and . . . each step forward has been a most painful and laborious achievement.

If you try to cure evil with evil you will add more pain to your fate.

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.

If you feel pain, you're alive. If you feel other people's pain, you're a human being.

There is no coming to consciousness without pain.

Oh! poverty is a weary thing, 'tis full of grief and pain; it keepeth down the soul of man, as with an iron chain.

We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons.