“Not all of us can do great things, but we can do small things with great love.”

“I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.”

“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”

“Be careful about reading health books. Some fine day you'll die of a misprint.”

“If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.”

“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”

“The reason I talk to myself is because I'm the only one whose answers I accept.”

“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”

“Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.”

“For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much — the wheel, New York, wars and so on — whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man — for precisely the same reasons.”

“We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.”

“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”

“Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.”

“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.”

“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”

“It's no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”

“Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.”

“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”

“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”

“Sometimes you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.”

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”

“The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.”

“You're going to come across people who say all the right words at the right times. In the end, judge them by their actions. Actions, not words, matter.”

“Life is a book and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read.”

“An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.”

“The woods are lovely, dark and deep.”

“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.”

“He's not perfect. You aren't either, and the two of you will never be perfect. But if he can make you laugh at least once, make you think twice, and admit to being human and making mistakes, hold onto him and give him the most you can. He isn't going to quote poetry or think about you every moment, but he will give you a part of himself that he knows you could break. Don't hurt him, don't change him, and don't expect more than he can give. Don't analyze. Smile when he makes you happy, yell when he makes you mad, and miss him when he's not there. Love hard when there is love to be had. Because perfect guys don't exist, but there's always one guy who is perfect for you.”

“I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.”

“I no longer believed in the idea of soul mates, or love at first sight. But I was beginning to believe that a very few times in your life, if you were lucky, you might meet someone who was exactly right for you. Not because he was perfect, or because you were, but because your combined flaws were arranged in a way that allowed two separate beings to hinge together.”

“Becoming fearless isn't the point. That's impossible. It's learning how to control your fear, and how to be free from it.”

“Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.”

“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”

“You can talk with someone for years, every day, and still it won't mean as much as sitting silently with them and feeling them with your heart, like you've known them forever. Connections are made with the heart, not the tongue.”

“Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.”

“Doubt thou the stars are fire;”

“The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.”

“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.”

“You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.”

“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”

“And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”

“A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”

“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”

“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”

“Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”

“Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.”

“I am not young enough to know everything.”

“I would rather walk with a friend in the dark than alone in the light.”

“Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and above all those who live without love.”

“Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”