"Now I've gone for too longLiving like I'm not aliveSo I'm going to start over tonightBeginning with you and I"

"People will kill you. Over time. They will shave out every last morsel of fun in you with little, harmless sounding phrases that people uses every day, like: 'Be realistic!'" (2009)]"

"dont be afraid of death, be afraid of the unlived life."

"Sometimes it's the same moments that take your breath away that breathe purpose and love back into your life."

"I finally figured out that not every crisis can be managed. As much as we want to keep ourselves safe, we can't protect ourselves from everything. If we want to embrace life, we also have to embrace chaos."

"Silence is argument carried out by other means."

"Life is but a dream for the dead."

"The world's a puzzle; no need to make sense out of it." - Socrates"

"Life was not to be sitting in hot amorphic leisure in my backyard idly writing or not writing, as the spirit moved me. It was, instead, running madly, in a crowded schedule, in a squirrel cage of busy people. Working, living, dancing, dreaming, talking, kissing- singing, laughing, learning."

"Men's lives have meaning, not their deaths."

"She laughed for her wasted, difficult life that never had to be wasted or difficult in the first place."

"Nothing in this world compares to the comfort and security of having someone just hold your hand."

"A 'no' does not hide anything, but a 'yes' very easily becomes a deception."

"The story of my recent life.' I like that phrase. It makes more sense than 'the story of my life', because we get so many lives between birth and death. A life to be a child. A life to come of age. A life to wander, to settle, to fall in love, to parent, to test our promise, to realize our mortality- and in some lucky cases, to do something after that realization."

"A mistake isn’t a mistake unless it can’t be put right."

"How would your life be different if…You didn’t allow yourself to be defined by your past? Let today be the day…You stop letting your history interfere with your destiny and awaken to the opportunity to release your greatest self."

"The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death."

"The true definition of mental illness is when the majority of your time is spent in the past or future, but rarely living in the realism of NOW."

"Love me when I least deserve it, because that's when I really need it."

"I saw the world from the stars' point of view, and it looked unbearably lonely."

"I don't understand a thing about this world: about people, and why they do the things they do. The more I find out, the more I uncover, the more I know, the less I understand."

"Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart."