"Face your life, its pain, its pleasure, leave no path untaken."

"To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life."

"And I learned what is obvious to a child. That life is simply a collection of little lives, each lived one day at a time. That each day should be spent finding beauty in flowers and poetry and talking to animals. That a day spent with dreaming and sunsets and refreshing breezes cannot be bettered. But most of all, I learned that life is about sitting on benches next to ancient creeks with my hand on her knee and sometimes, on good days, for falling in love."

"Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it."

"I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It's all a question of how I view my life."

"Sometimes you have to kind of die inside in order to rise from your own ashes and believe in yourself and love yourself to become a new person."

"Dear God," she prayed, "let me be something every minute of every hour of my life. Let me be gay; let me be sad. Let me be cold; let me be warm. Let me be hungry...have too much to eat. Let me be ragged or well dressed. Let me be sincere - be deceitful. Let me be truthful; let me be a liar. Let me be honorable and let me sin. Only let me be something every blessed minute. And when I sleep, let me dream all the time so that not one little piece of living is ever lost."

"The thing about getting older is that you don't need everything to be possible any more, you just need things to be certain."

"Let me be, was all I wanted. Be what I am, no matter how I am."

"We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand."

"Whoever saves one life, saves the world entire."

"Some people, they can't just move on, you know, mourn and cry and be done with it. Or at least seem to be. But for me... I don't know. I didn't want to fix it, to forget. It wasn't something that was broken. It's just...something that happened. And like that hole, I'm just finding ways, every day, of working around it. Respecting and remembering and getting on at the same time."

"There’s no such thing as ruining your life. Life’s a pretty resilient thing, it turns out."

"Even though you may want to move forward in your life, you may have one foot on the brakes. In order to be free, we must learn how to let go. Release the hurt. Release the fear. Refuse to entertain your old pain. The energy it takes to hang onto the past is holding you back from a new life. What is it you would let go of today?"

"No sympathy for the devil; keep that in mind. Buy the ticket, take the ride...and if it occasionally gets a little heavier than what you had in mind, well...maybe chalk it up to forced consciousness expansion: Tune in, freak out, get beaten."

"why are trying so hard to fit in, when you're born to stand out"

"At the time, my life just seemed too complete, and maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves."

"Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly;Man got to sit and wonder 'why, why, why?'Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land;Man got to tell himself he understand."

"When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?"

"I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends and to have loneliness, to work much and write good books, to travel and enjoy myself, to be selfish and to be unselfish… You see, it is difficult to get all which I want. And then when I do not succeed I get mad with anger."

"Life isn't fair, it's just fairer than death, that's all."

"If you care about something you have to protect it – If you’re lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it."