Many of the faults you see in others, dear reader, are your own nature reflected in them.

There is no worse sickness for the soul, O you who are proud, than this pretense of perfection. The heart and eyes must bleed a lot before self-complacency falls away.

~ Rumi

“Unless it is mad passionate extraordinary love, it’s a waste of time. There are too many mediocre things in life. Love should not be one of them.”

this.

what has no conditions but one condition?

love.

machine head ~ descend the shades of night

all our hate is a product of the world we created.

“But love is always new. Regardless of whether we love once, twice, or a dozen times in our life, we always face a brand-new situation. Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere. We simply have to accept it, because it is what nourishes our existence. If we reject it, we die of hunger, because we lack the courage to stretch out a hand and pluck the fruit from the branches of the tree of life. We have to take love where we find it, even if that means hours, days, weeks of disappointment and sadness. The moment we begin to seek love, love begins to seek us. And to save us.” ~ Paulo Coelho

'Sometimes, I feel more connected with strangers from across the world than I do with most of my friends in real life. Sometimes one feels freer speaking to a stranger than to people one knows. Probably because a stranger sees us the way we are, not as he wishes to think we are.'

Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along. ~ Rumi

Don't let her go to sleep upset.

'Because, she’ll only toss and turn in frustration, until sadness pulls her into sleep, and tears stain her pillow. You’ll be her first thought when she wakes up, and more than anything, she’ll wish she could go back to sleep, back to the silence, to the empty blackness. Don’t do this to her, she’s worth so much more, if she wasn’t, she wouldn’t care.'

Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances. - Mahatma Gandhi

love heals all wounds.

'All that dies and disappears in the name of Love is not Love. Love is forever. Love cannot die. Love destroys Death itself.'