“I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.”

“I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.”

“Nobody can hurt me without my permission.”

“If you love somebody, let them go. If they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were.”

“What is an "instant" death anyway? How long is an instant? Is it one second? Ten? The pain of those seconds must have been awful as her heart burst and her lungs collapsed and there was no air and no blood to her brain and only raw panic. What the hell is instant? Nothing is instant. Instant rice takes five minutes, instant pudding an hour. I doubt that an instant of blinding pain feels particularly instantaneous.”

“Each day means a new twenty-four hours. Each day means everything's possible again. You live in the moment, you die in the moment, you take it all one day at a time.”

“I don't want to lose the boy with the bread.”

“There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.”

“I have decided to stick to love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.”

“Everybody has a secret world inside of them. I mean everybody. All of the people in the whole world, I mean everybody, no matter how dull and boring they are on the outside. Inside them they've all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds. Not just one world. Hundreds of them. Thousands, maybe.”

“None of us really changes over time. We only become more fully what we are.”

“It isn't what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.”

“Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.”

“It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”

“People are afraid of themselves, of their own reality; their feelings most of all. People talk about how great love is, but that’s bullshit. Love hurts. Feelings are disturbing. People are taught that pain is evil and dangerous. How can they deal with love if they’re afraid to feel? Pain is meant to wake us up. People try to hide their pain. But they’re wrong. Pain is something to carry, like a radio. You feel your strength in the experience of pain. It’s all in how you carry it. That’s what matters. Pain is a feeling. Your feelings are a part of you. Your own reality. If you feel ashamed of them, and hide them, you’re letting society destroy your reality. You should stand up for your right to feel your pain.”

“Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.”

“Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out.”

“You get a little moody sometimes, but I think that's because you like to read. People who like to read are always a little fucked up.”

“Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet.”

“Beneath the makeup and behind the smile I am just a girl who wishes for the world.”

“"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming, \"Wow! What a ride!\""”

“Do what is right, not what is easy nor what is popular.”

“Don't just.”

“So please, oh please, we beg, we pray.”

“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”

“Simplicity, patience, compassion.”

“She generally gave herself very good advice, though she very seldom followed it.”

“He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.”

“Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”

“What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruction. The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses. That it can be good again.”

“I don't mind living in a man's world, as long as I can be a woman in it.”

“How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.”

“I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it's the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It's probably the most important thing in a person.”

“Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.”

“Laughter is timeless. Imagination has no age. Dreams are forever.”

“There comes a time when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your own heart. So you'd better learn the sound of it. Otherwise you'll never understand what it's saying.”

“People haven't always been there for me, but music always has.”

“Here's all you have to know about men and women: women are crazy, men are stupid. And the main reason women are crazy is that men are stupid.”

“Always do what you are afraid to do.”

“I think if I've learned anything about friendship, it's to hang in, stay connected, fight for them, and let them fight for you. Don't walk away, don't be distracted, don't be too busy or tired, don't take them for granted. Friends are part of the glue that holds life and faith together. Powerful stuff.”

“It's only after you've stepped outside your comfort zone that you begin to change, grow, and transform.”

“What you seek is seeking you.”

“Love is so short, forgetting is so long.”

“When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down and yelled up to the heavens, "Why, God? Why me?" The thundering voice of God answered, "There's just something about you that pisses me off."”

“If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger.”

“Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.”

“They didn't agree on much. In fact, they didn't agree on anything. They fought all the time and challenged each other every day. But despite their differences, they had one important thing in common. They were crazy about each other.”

“The truth is, unless you let go, unless you forgive yourself, unless you forgive the situation, unless you realize that the situation is over, you cannot move forward.”

“When a man gives his opinion, he's a man. When a woman gives her opinion, she's a bitch.”

“My tastes are simple: I am easily satisfied with the best.”