"In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you."

"A pain stabbed my heart, as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world."

"Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome."

"Almost nobody dances sober, unless they happen to be insane."

"The trouble with being in the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat."

"Unexpected intrusions of beauty. This is what life is."

"There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it"

"How would your life be different if…You stopped making negative judgmental assumptions about people you encounter? Let today be the day…You look for the good in everyone you meet and respect their journey."

"I think I've discovered the secret of life -- you just hang around until you get used to it."

"There is no good and evil, there is only power and those too weak to seek it."

"When you're lost in those woods, it sometimes takes you a while to realize that you are lost. For the longest time, you can convince yourself that you've just wandered off the path, that you'll find your way back to the trailhead any moment now. Then night falls again and again, and you still have no idea where you are, and it's time to admit that you have bewildered yourself so far off the path that you don't even know from which direction the sun rises anymore."

"Face your life, its pain, its pleasure, leave no path untaken."

"To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life."

"And I learned what is obvious to a child. That life is simply a collection of little lives, each lived one day at a time. That each day should be spent finding beauty in flowers and poetry and talking to animals. That a day spent with dreaming and sunsets and refreshing breezes cannot be bettered. But most of all, I learned that life is about sitting on benches next to ancient creeks with my hand on her knee and sometimes, on good days, for falling in love."

"Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it."

"I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It's all a question of how I view my life."

"Sometimes you have to kind of die inside in order to rise from your own ashes and believe in yourself and love yourself to become a new person."

"Dear God," she prayed, "let me be something every minute of every hour of my life. Let me be gay; let me be sad. Let me be cold; let me be warm. Let me be hungry...have too much to eat. Let me be ragged or well dressed. Let me be sincere - be deceitful. Let me be truthful; let me be a liar. Let me be honorable and let me sin. Only let me be something every blessed minute. And when I sleep, let me dream all the time so that not one little piece of living is ever lost."

"The thing about getting older is that you don't need everything to be possible any more, you just need things to be certain."

"Let me be, was all I wanted. Be what I am, no matter how I am."

"We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand."

"Whoever saves one life, saves the world entire."