Everything is more beautiful because we’re doomed.
You will never be lovelier than you are now.
We will never be here again.

Believing something is not an accomplishment. I grew up thinking that beliefs are something to be proud of, but they’re really nothing but opinions one refuses to reconsider. Beliefs are easy. The stronger your beliefs are, the less open you are to growth and wisdom, because “strength of belief” is only the intensity with which you resist questioning yourself. As soon as you are proud of a belief, as soon as you think it adds something to who you are, then you’ve made it a part of your ego. Listen to any “die-hard” conservative or liberal talk about their deepest beliefs and you are listening to somebody who will never hear what you say on any matter that matters to them — unless you believe the same. It is gratifying to speak forcefully, it is gratifying to be agreed with, and this high is what the die-hards are chasing. Wherever there is a belief, there is a closed door. Take on the beliefs that stand up to your most honest, humble scrutiny, and never be afraid to lose them.

All people operate from the same two motivations: to fulfill their desires and to escape their suffering.

No matter what kind of behavior other people exhibit, they are acting in the most effective way they are capable of (at that moment) to fulfill a desire or to relieve their suffering. 

These are motives we can all understand; we only vary in method, and the methods each of us has at our disposal depend on our upbringing and our experiences in life, as well as our state of consciousness. 

Some methods are skillful and helpful to others, others are unskillful and destructive, and almost all destructive behavior is unconscious.

You're looking for me
But it's not what you seek
I've got a twisted personality

And I'm looking for you
And I'm glad I found me
A special kind of personality

"its beyond love. they love me unconditionally. i have had that. everyone has to have that. i don't think it matters who it is from. maybe this is why i have love, because i had it. i can do no wrong for them. they will go to such pains to understand why i have done wrong- but it isn't wrong anyway because i have done it.

If i look back for moments which gave me that feeling of the rug having been pulled from under my feet, i suppose i think of romances that went wrong. But it was only temporary. I often come across old bits of diary where i have written "the bottoms fallen out, i am plummeting through a void, and he has done this to me and he has done that" and at this point i can't remember who the fuck he was, and that really is devastating when you realise how absurd some of these things have been"

you are someone else, i am still right here