“Live in New York City once, but leave before it makes you hard. Live in Northern California once, but leave before it makes you soft”
― Wear Sunscreen: A Primer for Real Life
― Wear Sunscreen: A Primer for Real Life
“Hate isn’t the opposite of love, apathy is. Hating doesn’t free you from feeling anything. You have to carry it around, using every scar, every little memory like a building block. Like a stone in a wall, until you’ve created a new person, a new life that you can live with.”
― Broken Abroad
― Broken Abroad
“We never love anyone. What we love is the idea we have of someone. It's our own concept—our own selves—that we love.”
― The Book of Disquiet
― The Book of Disquiet
“Serve love through the lover, so that you never become attached to the lover. And when one is not attached to the lover, love reaches its highest peaks. The moment one is attached, one starts falling low. Attachment is a kind of gravitation—unattachment is grace. Unreal love is another name for attachment; real love is very detached.”
― Love, Freedom, and Aloneness: On Relationships, Sex, Meditation, and Silence
― Love, Freedom, and Aloneness: On Relationships, Sex, Meditation, and Silence
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