"I'm killing time while I wait for life to shower me with meaning and happiness."

"How nice -- to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive."

"Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life, but define yourself."

"If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week."

"Better to die fighting for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life."

"They say I'm old-fashioned, and live in the past, but sometimes I think progress progresses too fast!"

"There are two means of refuge from the misery of life — music and cats."

"There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be..."

"There is only one sin. and that is theft... when you tell a lie, you steal someones right to the truth."

"To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation."

"No matter how careful you are, there's going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that you didn't experience it all. There's that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the moments where you should've been paying attention.Well, get used to that feeling. That's how your whole life will feel some day.This is all practice."

"If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher. Overlong, detailed to the point of distraction-and ultimately, without a major resolution."

"The trouble is if you don’t spend your life yourself, other people spend it for you."

"I meant," said Ipslore bitterly, "what is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile?"Death thought about it.CATS, he said eventually. CATS ARE NICE."

"Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well."

"All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair."

"I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them."

"Remember, remember, this is now, and now, and now. Live it, feel it, cling to it. I want to become acutely aware of all I’ve taken for granted."

"The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience."

"Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom."

"We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations."

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man."