“And now these three remain: faith, hope, and love. But the greatest of these is love.”

“It is good to love many things; therein lies the true strength. Whosoever loves much performs much, can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done.”

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

“I am a badass, and I recognize that you, too, are a badass.”

“I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.”

“Fire is catching! And if we burn, you burn with us!”

“It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime.”

“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”

“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.”

“Books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life.”

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

“Nobody can hurt me without my permission.”

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

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

“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.”

“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!\""”

“Don't just.”

“Simplicity, patience, compassion.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Always do what you are afraid to do.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Be brave enough to live the life of your dreams according to your vision and purpose instead of the expectations and opinions of others.”

“To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.”

“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”

“I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.”

“To be nobody but”

“Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.”

“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”

“I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.”

“Fear doesn't shut you down; it wakes you up.”

“Unbeing dead isn't being alive.”

“Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisoned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape? If we value the freedom of mind and soul, if we're partisans of liberty, then it's our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can!”

“No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they're pretty, even if they aren't.”

“Why fit in when you were born to stand out?”

“What's meant to be will always find a way.”

“More smiling, less worrying. More compassion, less judgment. More blessed, less stressed. More love, less hate.”

“You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.”

“All grown-ups were once children, but only a few of them remember it.”

“Reader's Bill of Rights”

“That's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.”

“Everything is possible. The impossible just takes longer.”