“Even if they can find a lover they demand perfection, and the love is destroyed because of that demand.”
― Being in Love: How to Love with Awareness and Relate Without Fear
― Being in Love: How to Love with Awareness and Relate Without Fear
“[...] almost nothing important that ever happens to you happens because you engineer it. Destiny has no beeper; destiny always leans trenchcoated out of an alley with some sort of 'psst' that you usually can't even hear because you're in such a rush to or from something important you've tried to engineer.”
― Infinite Jest
― Infinite Jest
“What imperfect carriers of love we are, and what imperfect givers. That the reasons we can care for one another can have nothing to do with the person cared for. That it has only to do with who we were around that person—what we felt about that person.”
― Goodbye, Vitamin
― Goodbye, Vitamin
“Gently to hear, kindly to judge."— SHAKESPEARE.”
― The Secret Doctrine
― The Secret Doctrine
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