To be kind is more important than to be right. Many times, what people need is not a brilliant mind that speaks but a special heart that listens.
For what it’s worth, it’s never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you’re proud of and if you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start over.
She was beautiful, but not like those girls in the magazines. She was beautiful, for the way she thought. She was beautiful, for the sparkle in her eyes when she talked about something she loved. She was beautiful, for her ability to make other people smile, even if she was sad. No, she wasn’t beautiful for something as temporary as her looks. She was beautiful, deep down to her soul. She is beautiful.
I hope you make the best of it. And I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.
The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want
And in the end, we were all just humans…Drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness.
You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known—and even that is an understatement.
Suddenly she realized that what she was regretting was not the lost past but the lost future, not what had not been but what would never be.
Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
…the test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise. This philosophy fitted on to my early adult life, when I saw the improbable, the implausible, often the “impossible,” come true.
Intelligence is measured by a person’s ability to see validity within both sides of contradicting arguments.
You have a place in my heart no one else ever could have.
Before you criticize others, remember, they may not have had the same opportunities in life as you have had
Think how you love me,’ she whispered. ‘I don’t ask you to love me always like this, but I ask you to remember.’ You’ll always be like this to me.’ Oh no; but promise me you’ll remember.’ Her tears were falling. ‘I’ll be different, but somewhere lost inside me there’ll always be the person I am tonight.
There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.
It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.
It is not merely enough to have the ability to be persistant, you must also have the ability to start over.
Someday I’m going to find somebody and love him and love him and never let him go.
Having once found the intensity of art, nothing else that can happen in life can ever again seem as important as the creative process.
That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you’re not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.
Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.
Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel. Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
Her philosophy is carpe diem for herself and laissez faire for others.
I never blame failure – there are too many complicated situations in life – but I am absolutely merciless toward lack of effort.
I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect. And it’s these things I’d believe in, even if the whole world indulged in wild suspicions that she wasn’t all she should be. I love her and it is the beginning of everything.
