-“I learned to love the journey, not the destination. I learned that this is not a dress rehearsal, and that today is the only guarantee you get. I learned to look at all the good in the world and to try to give some of it back, because I believe in it completely and utterly. Consider the lilies of the field. Look at the fuzz on a baby’s ear. Read in the backyard with the sun on your face. Learn to be happy. And think of life as a terminal illness, because, if you do, you will live it with joy and passion, as it ought to be lived.”
-“We can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are. Sane or insane. Saints or sex addicts. Heroes or victims. Letting history tell us how good or bad we are. Letting our past decide our future. Or we can decide for ourselves. And maybe it’s our job to invent something better.”
-“If she’s amazing, she won’t be easy. If she’s easy, she won’t be amazing. If she’s worth it, you won’t give up. If you give up, you’re not worth it.”
-“I need to know that it’s possible that two people can stay happy together… forever.”
-“Please know there are much better things in life than being liked or lonely or bitter or mean or self-conscious. Go love someone just because. I know your heart may be badly bruised or even the victim of numerous knifings, but it will always heal, even if you don’t want it to, it keeps going. There are the most fantastic, beautiful things and people out there, I promise. It is up to you to find them.”
-“If you don’t like what you’re getting, change what you’re doing.”
-“The phrase ‘I don’t have time for’ should never be said. We all get thesame amount of time every day. If you can’t do something it’s not about the quantity of time.It’s really about how important the task is to you.”
-“Sometimes I think that we waste our words. And we waste our moments. And we don’t take the time to say the things that are in our hearts when we have the chance.”
-“There is suffering in life, and there are defeats; no one can avoid them. But it’s better to lose some of the battles in the struggles for your dreams than to be defeated without ever knowing what you’re fighting for.”
-“If we all did the things we were capable of doing, we would literally astonish ourselves.”
-“Happiness is the result of my decision to be happy. There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way. In other words, happiness is a feeling I tap into, not an outcome of events. I can be happy without changing anything in my life except my relationship to my own thinking. I decide to be happy and commit myself to making happiness my state of mind, rather than relying on a set of circumstances to do it for me.”
-“I guess if you don’t jump, you’ll never know if you’ll be able to fly…”
-“Serendipity: Look for something, find something else and realize that what you’ve found is more suited to your needs than what you thought you were looking for.”
-“Expecting life to treat you well because you’re a good person is like expecting an angry bull not to charge because you’re a vegetarian.”
-“Mayber it’s true, maybe we don’t know what we have until we’ve lost it. But, maybe, it’s also true that we don’t know what we’re missing until we’ve found it.”
-“Life is unpredictable… How we act and what we do will affect our futures in one way or another… whether it be really soon or not until we graduate college. You can’t go through life being afraid of what’s coming next, even if it’s the hardest thing you have to do.”
-“Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away, and move on to something that’s more productive.”
-“You can be a jerk all you want, but in the end you’ll feel low and I’ll be fine.”
-“The best moments in reading are when you come across something, a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things that you’d thought special, particular to you. And here it is, set down by someone else, a person you’ve never met, maybe even someone long dead. And it’s as if a hand has come out and taken yours.”
-“Life is about chasing after the things you truly think are worth it,even if they don’t happen. I’d rather have nothing but know I didn’t settle for something I didn’t want.”
-“I don’t consider myself very wild at all. I’m far more of a homebody. Once or twice a year I’ll go to a club with a pack of girlfriends just to dance. I think when you get a high off life, off music, off people; you don’t need to partake in things that are unhealthy for your body to have a great time. I think living in the now and savoring every moment is obscenely important.”
-“Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future.”
-“You are responsible for your life. You can’t keep blaming somebody else for your dysfunction. Life is really about moving on.”
-“Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on.”
-“Don’t ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive, and then go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”
-“Peace. It does not mean to be in a place where there is no noise, trouble, or hard work. It means to be in the midst of all those things and still be calm in your heart.”
-“When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion.”
-“Believe in yourself and there will come a day when others will have no choice but to believe with you.”
-“All of us have moments in our childhoodwhere we come alive for the first time.And we go back to those moments and think, this is when I became myself.”
-“I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it’s the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It’s probably the most important thing in a person.”
-“A lot of people are afraid to say what they want. That’s why they don’t get what they want.”
-“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”
-“I am one of the searchers. there are, O believe, a million of us. we are not unhappy, but neither are we really content. We continue to explore life, hoping to uncover its ultimate secret. We continue to explore ourselves, hoping to understand. We like to walk along the beach, we are drawn by the ocean, taken by its power, its unceasing notion, its mystery and unspeakable beauty. We like forests and mountains, deserts and hidden rivers, and the lonely cities as well. Our sadness is as much a part of our lives as is our laughter. To share our sadness with one we love is perhaps as great a joy as we can know - unless it be to share our laughter.”