It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.
You can feel the whole world and still feel lost in it. So many people are in pain– no matter how smart or accomplished–they cry, they yearn, they hurt. But instead of looking down on things, they look up, which is where I should have been looking, too. Because when the world quiets to the sound of your own breathing, we all want the same things: comfort, love and a peaceful heart.
The house, the stars, the desert — what gives them their beauty is something that is invisible!
Behind all seen things lies something vaster; everything is but a path, a portal or a window opening on something other than iteself.
Happiness is a state of mind, a choice, a way of living; it is not something to be achieved, it is something to be experienced.
If you hear how wonderful you are often enough, you begin to believe it, no matter how you try to resist it.
We all have the same beginning – birth – and we all have the same end – death. So how different can we be?
Love is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go, and it makes the end so easy.
Life is only precious because it ends, kid. Take it from a god. You mortals don’t know how lucky you are
If you have the guts to be yourself, other people’ll pay your price.
Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
But we never get back our youth… The pulse of joy that beats in us at twenty becomes sluggish. Our limbs fail, our senses rot. We degenerate into hideous puppets, haunted by the memory of the passions of which we were too much afraid, and the exquisite temptations that we had not the courage to yield to.
What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.
Everything changed the day she figured out there was exactly enough time for the important things in her life.
If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
I give myself a good cry if I need it. But then I concentrate on the good things still in my life. I don’t allow myself any more self-pity than that. A little each every morning, a few tears, and that’s all.
Deciding whether or not to trust a person is like deciding whether or not to climb a tree because you might get a wonderful view from the highest branch or you might simply get covered in sap and for this reason many people choose to spend their time alone and indoors where it is harder to get a splinter.
We can’t choose our fate, but we can choose others. Be careful in knowing that.
In our world,” said Eustace, “a star is a huge ball of flaming gas.”
Even in your world, my son, that is not what a star is, but only what it is made of.
Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves – slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future.
Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success.
The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh.
Dumbledore will only leave from Hogwarts when there are none loyal to him!
I remembered the fox. One runs the risk of crying a bit if one allows oneself to be tamed.
You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.
It’s okay,” he said. “We’re together.” He didn’t say you’re okay, or we’re alive. After all they’d been through over the last year, he knew that the most important thing was that they were together. She loved him for saying that.
To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the breaking of bread.
Don’t dwell on things. Don’t stay in one place too long. It was the only way to stay ahead of sadness.
Don’t give up! It’s not over. The universe is balanced. Every set-back bears with it the seeds of a come-back.
You will have five hundred million little bells, and I shall have five hundred million springs of fresh water…
Even though human life may be the most precious thing on earth, we always behave as if there were something of higher value than human life.
What keeps life fascinating is the constant creativity of the soul.
Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer.
The voice says, maybe you don’t go to hell for the things you do. Maybe you go to hell for the things you don’t do. The things you don’t finish.
The great thing, if one can, is to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions of one’s ‘own,’ or ‘real’ life. The truth is of course that what one calls the interruptions are precisely one’s real life — the life God is sending one day by day.
Fear? What has a man to do with fear? Chance rules our lives, and the future is all unknown. Best live as we may, from day to day.
Dying is only one thing to be sad over. Living unhappily is something else.
Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger, portion of truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.
Everything is funnier in retrospect, funnier and prettier and cooler. You can laugh at anything from far enough away.
Life’ wrote a friend of mine, ‘is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.
To regret one’s own experiences is to arrest one’s own development. To deny one’s own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one’s own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.
Because if you’ve found meaning in your life, you don’t want to go back. You want to go forward.
In love, as in life, one misheard word can be tremendously important. If you tell someone you love them, for instance, you must be absolutely certain that they have replied “I love you back” and not “I love your back” before you continue the conversation.