Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.
You will be required to do wrong no matter where you go. It is the basic condition of life, to be required to violate your own identity. At some time, every creature which lives must do so. It is the ultimate shadow, the defeat of creation; this is the curse at work, the curse that feeds on all life. Everywhere in the universe.
Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors for you where there were only walls.
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent place.
Don’t sacrifice yourself too much, because if you sacrifice too much there’s nothing else you can give and nobody will care for you.
I don’t know why we are here, but I’m pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
Life, with its rules, its obligations, and its freedoms, is like a sonnet: You’re given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself. – Mrs. Whatsit
Oh, don’t cry, I’m so sorry I cheated so much, but that’s the way things are.
I’m the girl nobody knows until she commits suicide. Then suddenly everyone had a class with her.
We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works.
If you need something from somebody always give that person a way to hand it to you.
Life is like a novel. It’s filled with suspense. You have no idea what is going to happen until you turn the page.
In all of living, have much fun and laughter. Life is to be enjoyed, not just endured.
If there was anything that depressed him more than his own cynicism, it was that quite often it still wasn’t as cynical as real life.
Prime numbers are what is left when you have taken all the patterns away. I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them.
Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
You’re both the fire and the water that extinguishes it. You’re the narrator, the protagonist, and the sidekick. You’re the storyteller and the story told. You are somebody’s something, but you are also your you.
Yea, all things live forever, though at times they sleep and are forgotten.
She just smiled, said that she loved books more than anything, and started telling him excitedly what each of the ones in her lap was about. And Ove realised that he wanted to hear her talking about the things she loved for the rest of his life.
Growing up happens when you start having things you look back on and wish you could change -Clary Fray
You don’t have to disrespect and insult others simply to hold your own ground. If you do, that shows how shaky your own position is.
Some things you hear with your ears. Others, you hear with your heart.
I just wanted to tell you that I understand if you go. It’s okay if you have to leave us. It’s okay if you want to stop fighting.
Just living is not enough,” said the butterfly, “one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.
It is important that we forgive ourselves for making mistakes. We need to learn from our errors and move on.
Happiness is not a goal…it’s a by-product of a life well lived.
There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
Don’t leave a piece of jewelry at his house so you can go back and get it later; he may be with his real girlfriend.
He’s not your prince charming if he doesn’t make sure you know that you’re his princess.
Don’t be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
Every woman that finally figured out her worth, has picked up her suitcases of pride and boarded a flight to freedom, which landed in the valley of change.
It’s never an insult to be called what somebody thinks is a bad name. It just shows you how poor that person is, it doesn’t hurt you.
Spring passes and one remembers one’s innocence.
Summer passes and one remembers one’s exuberance.
Autumn passes and one remembers one’s reverence.
Winter passes and one remembers one’s perseverance.
If you aim to be something you are not, you will always fail. Aim to be you. Aim to look and act and think like you. Aim to be the truest version of you. Embrace that you-ness. Endorse it. Love it. Work hard at it. And don’t give a second thought when people mock it or ridicule it. Most gossip is envy in disguise.
He was mastered by the sheer surging of life, the tidal wave of being, the perfect joy of each separate muscle, joint, and sinew in that it was everything that was not death, that it was aglow and rampant, expressing itself in movement, flying exultantly under the stars.
The whole of life is just like watching a film. Only it’s as though you always get in ten minutes after the big picture has started, and no-one will tell you the plot, so you have to work it out all yourself from the clues.
I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations — one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it — you will regret both.
Parents were the only ones obligated to love you; from the rest of the world you had to earn it.
Magic exists. Who can doubt it, when there are rainbows and wildflowers, the music of the wind and the silence of the stars? Anyone who has loved has been touched by magic. It is such a simple and such an extraordinary part of the lives we live.
It’s not the men in your life that matters, it’s the life in your men.
How can I be reasonable? To me our love was everything and you were my whole life. It is not very pleasant to realize that to you it was only an episode.
I was always an unusual girl.
My mother told me I had a chameleon soul, no moral compass pointing due north, no fixed personality; just an inner indecisiveness that was as wide and as wavering as the ocean.
We leave something of ourselves behind when we leave a place, we stay there, even though we go away. And there are things in us that we can find again only by going back there.
Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass…It’s about learning to dance in the rain.
Human life is but a series of footnotes to a vast obscure unfinished masterpiece
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already 3-parts dead.
I envy people that know love. That have someone who takes them as they are.
Believe something and the Universe is on its way to being changed. Because you’ve changed, by believing. Once you’ve changed, other things start to follow. Isn’t that the way it works?
People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.