Certain things in life simply have to be experienced -and never explained. Love is such a thing.
I don't care what you say to me. I care what you share with me.
I have learned all kinds of things from my many mistakes. The one thing I never learn is to stop making them.
It is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else's life with perfection.
And then I felt sad because I realized that once people are broken in certain ways, they can't ever be fixed, and this is something nobody ever tells you when you are young and it never fails to surprise you as you grow older as you see the people in your life break one by one. You wonder when your turn is going to be, or if it's already happened.
Instructions for living a life. Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.
People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living weren't already complicated enough.
If there's a single lesson that life teaches us, it's that wishing doesn't make it so.
Only the dead have seen the end of war.
Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.
I've never fooled anyone. I've let people fool themselves. They didn't bother to find out who and what I was. Instead they would invent a character for me. I wouldn't argue with them. They were obviously loving somebody I wasn't.
Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean, Tears from the depths of some devine despair Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes, In looking on the happy autumn fields, And thinking of the days that are no more.
When you can live forever what do you live for?
Inventory: Four be the things I am wiser to know: Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe. Four be the things I'd been better without: Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt. Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne. Three be the things I shall have till I die: Laughter and hope and a sock in the eye.
Who are you? Are you in touch with all of your darkest fantasies? Have you created a life for yourself where you can experience them? I have. I am fucking crazy. But I am free.
My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
He's not your prince charming if he doesn't make sure you know that you're his princess.
If you aim to be something you are not, you will always fail. Aim to be you. Aim to look and act and think like you. Aim to be the truest version of you. Embrace that you-ness. Endorse it. Love it. Work hard at it. And don't give a second thought when people mock it or ridicule it. Most gossip is envy in disguise.