“The dance had distilled her and she had become one with the essence of all that is.”

“Be willing to turn your attention to that which serves you.”

“Purge everything that's holding you back. Whatever it is you feel you are being deprived of, trust the limitation serves to bring you more of what you want.”

“Everything that has ever been beautiful has been burned. Like you.”

“...lose your mind so that you can gain a new way of knowing.”

“...purification was the point of such pain.”

“He loved her, of course, but better than that, he chose her, day after day. Choice: that was the thing.”

“Happiness, like unhappiness, is a proactive choice.”

“But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness, I want sin.''In fact,' said Mustapha Mond, 'you're claiming the right to be unhappy.' 'All ...”

“Come t'e' picciol fallo amaro morso! Dante. What grievous pain a little fault doth give thee!”

“As long as one sees faults with the world, he prevails in the knowledge of the senses. The inner purification has not yet occurred in him.”

“On what basis does the world continue to exist? It is due to the fault of apratikraman' (the mistake for which pratikraman was not done).”

“When I say it's you I like, I'm talking about that part of you that knows that life is far more than anything you can ever see or hear or touch. That deep part of you that allows you to stand for t...”

“You know Balbec so well - do you have friends in the area?'I have friends wherever there are companies of trees, wounded but not vanquished, which huddle together with touching obstinacy to implore...”

“Things that matter are not easy. Feelings of happiness are easy. Happiness is not. Flirting is easy. Love is not. Saying youre friends is easy. Being friends is not.”