Perhaps it's true that love is eternal. But it's appearance changes all the time..

Love has something to do with recognition, We can be fascinated by the unknown, we can be attracted by it, but love is something that grows, slowly, ….

It's these small differences in people's karma that determine if we get up or remain lying on the ground..

There is one way to understand another culture. Living it. Move into it, ask to be tolerated as a guest, learn the language..

There's a look of mischief in his eyes. 'Smilla. Why is it that such an elegant and petite girl like you has such a rough voice.' I'm sorry,' I say, ….

People under thirty haven't yet stopped believing that something wonderful can suddenly happen..

The great systems that inform the world about the truth and life invariably claim to be absolutely truthful and well-balanced. In reality they are qu….

Under certain circumstances the fateful decisions in life, sometimes even in matters of life and death, are made with an almost indifferent ease. Whi….

He boils milk with fresh ginger, a quarter of a vanilla bean, and tea that is so dark and fine-leaved that it looks like black dust. He strains it an….

She was transparent, like a watercolor. As if she were about to dissolve in sound, in tones not yet created..

We sat there and I knew that this was how it felt to be totally accepted. You sit close to another person and are understood, everything is understoo….

Maybe it's wrong when we remember breakthroughs to our own being as something that occurs in discrete, extraordinary moments. Maybe falling in love, ….

I don't fall in love anymore. Just like I don't get the mumps..

Traveling tends to magnify all human emotions..

I have sat in the dark and looked at them both, the child and the woman. And the feeling has become too much. It is not sorrow or joy; it is the weig….

It may be necessary to stand on the outside of one is to see things clearly..

Never do I close my door behind me without being conscious that I am carrying out an act of charity towards myself..

I'm not crying about anything or anyone in particular. The life I live I created for myself, and I wouldn't want it any different. I cry because in t….

There is one way to understand another culture. Living it. Move into it, ask to be tolerated as a guest, learn the language. At some point understand….

I like him. I have a weakness for losers. Invalids, foreigners, the fat boy of the class, the ones nobody ever wants to dance with. My heart beats fo….

We all try to camouflage the monotony. But it takes a lot of energy. To insist on being special all the time. When we're so much like one another any….