• You've got to keep looking for them, even after you find them. Otherwise, you lose them.
• I do not understand why you would go out of your way to hurt each other, when life can already hurt so much.
• May you do the things you want to and always remember what it felt like when you were doing them.
• And may you never wish that life would pass with background music in a black and white montage. And may you lust and hunger for every awkward second of real life, in all it's un-retouched glory.
• The horror you face today will become the funny story you tell tomorrow.

In the end, everything is overcome and a life is lived.

• When you let go, it wasn't a rock falling to the ground. It was a balloon, rising from a child's hand.
• If you mean it, say it. If you say it, do it. If you don't, then leave it.
• It's not the things you don't want that drag you under. It's the things you think you want.

Those, are the killers.

• When I end, I will end as a tree ends: as a fire, bleeding out the sunlight from every summer it lived.

So do not judge me yet.

You have only seen, how I begin.

• Challenge the world that gives you the chance to live longer but asks you to do small things with that longer life.
• I like to think that one day, you became more than what the rest of the world gets to see.
• If you're not who you used to be, you still have time to become who you could be.
• All the most beautiful things are pulled from the ground.

All the most beautiful things are made in a fire. All the most beautiful things are hit again and again. All the most beautiful things are shaped with hard hands. Nothing about you is ugly. You are made of the most beautiful things.

• Here is the most beautiful thing in the world: There are people doing great things that they don't know are great yet.

They sit in their bedrooms, not knowing they are writing the most beautiful song you will ever hear. They go to their jobs, hiding great novels somewhere in the depths of their computers. They paint, not knowing how important their picture will be. They do all this with no promise of any reward or any recognition, and so there are truly great, secret things, everywhere. Waiting to explode. It is the most beautiful thing in the world.

• If you’re lucky, the horrible thing that happens gives you some distance from the world and it lets you to look at it in a way no one else does.

If you’re lucky, the horrible thing that happens makes you move closer to everyone around you because you understand how bad the horrible thing can be, and you know there's a chance someone else might have felt something as horrible as you have. So you are not careless with others. You try and make sure the horrible thing don’t happen to them. Because you’re the lucky one.

• You know we are only as good as the time and the love we pour into each other. Pour yourselves into each other.
• Here's how you fail: You fail with your heart on your sleeve.

You fail like you mean it with every part of you You fail attempting the impossible and the ridiculous. You fail in front of others and you fail and they laugh at you and you fail and you feel nothing and regret less. You fail sincerely and earnestly and you risk everything at every opportunity. This is how you fail: You fail beautifully. You fail with grace.

• I know you have a great sadness. I have had a great sadness too and I want you to know: I am alive and one day, you will say this same thing to someone else.
• You're wrong. Happiness isn't forgetting. Happiness is finding new things to remember.
• There is an innocent but selfish part of you that wants to love and be loved because you know being loved will make you want to be worthy of being loved.

There is a part of you that just wants to see the kind of person you could be, through someone else's eyes.

• Even if you are made of night, try to be made of more starlight than darkness.
• To live amongst the magnets and wipe our souls clean. You know it’s the only way.
• The only thing we've written down happened yesterday. What you do today is a new page.
• Who you want to be is not nearly as important as who you are right now.
• That song you keep playing is nothing but a photograph you look at with your ears.
• If you found anything of value here or in others, it's only because you'd seen it before inside yourself.
• If you enjoy the title of your job more than your job, you're in the wrong job.
• If it was easy, everyone would do it. But it's not. Which is why it's up to you.
• So if you love me but you don't need me, you don't love me.
• You are so full of the things that you don't have that you don't have space for the things you do.
• Not the first one in the morning or the one on the TV, the well-meaning phone call on a Monday night one or some you find on the radio - The voice that whispers between your ears before you fall asleep, that's the one you pay attention to.
• But nothing is wasted. There's no song you can listen to, no person you can speak to, no moment it takes to see things as they are that doesn't teach you something.

You need everything you know.

• And if you can't say yes, answer anyway. Because I'd rather live with the answer than die with the question.
• You're at the top of my list of meaningful decisions I need to make.
• Unfortunately, you don't get what you deserve. You get what you think you deserve.
• Being enlightened doesn't mean being happy. It means you're ok even when things aren't.
• You had the sadness and too much of it. There's no chemo for that except time.
• Things change the way you feel. And things change.
• You can be as logical, rational and objective as you want, it's not going to change the way you feel.
• One day, you will be given back every pen you've ever lost.
• It does not count if you believe in yourself when it's easy to believe in yourself. It does not count if you believe the world can be a better place when the future looks bright. It does not count if you think you're going to make it when the finish line is right in front of you. It counts when it's hard to believe in yourself, when it looks like the world's going to end and you've still got a long way to go. That's when it counts. That's when it matters the most.
• Your own ideas are the best ideas. Because only you can see them clearly enough to explain them to the world.
• If you run, make sure you’re running towards something. Never away.
• Sometimes when you work, you play.
• Hell is having everything you've ever wanted.
• It is only when you witness something truly inhuman that you discover what being human really means.
• The narrative you create in your mind in the story of your life.
• As soon as you begin to measure, you lose focus on what's really important.
• Look around you. There's always something to remember.
• Telling people how you feel is the first step to feeling better.
• The most creative thing you can do is tell the truth.
• Just tell them how you feel. Is anyone going to die? No. But one day, you will. Would you like to do that before or after you tell them?
• There’s you and then there’s your soul. Your soul does what your heart and the universe wants. It drags you along. All you really do, is provide commentary along the way.
• Remember what happened. But know that you cannot move forward while looking backwards.
• The more you think about it, the more power you give it.
• Every time you win, someone else has to lose. Don't play to win. Play to play.
• You can have talent. A gift. But that talent is nothing but potential. Only work turns that potential into something greater. This gift is something you need to return to the sender.
• There is no place called happiness. But there is a path you can travel.
• Take your time and craft the things you do. Love them. Love the process. God is in the details. And you can be an artist in everything you do.
• Everything that needs to happen, will happen, in the time that it takes to happen, the way it was meant to happen. You need to trust in that.
• Things fall. Things change. They wait a year and do it again. You don't need to fall to change.
• Learn four new things everyday. Something about yourself. Something about the people you love. Something about the world. And something about a stranger.
• Leave bread crumbs. Don't burn the bridges too soon. And always know your way home.
• The best way to be great, is to not try to be great. Do something good for someone, without seeking their thanks or their praise and you will be rewarded with a feeling from within. Which is a thousand times better than a feeling from without.