All knowledge is worth having.
Yeah, sometimes life really sucks, she says. But you know what I'm holding on for? I raise my eyebrows. She raises hers, too, mimicking me. The moments that don't suck, she says. The trick is to notice them when they come around.
There will be time, there will be time To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet.
But if everything was always smooth and perfect, you'd get too used to that, you know? You have to have a little bit of disorganization now and then. Otherwise, you'll never really enjoy it when things go right.
Just remember that the things you put into your head are there forever, he said. You might want to think about that. You forget some things, dont you? Yes. You forget what you want to remember and you remember what you want to forget.
When I lost my sight, Werner, people said I was brave. When my father left, people said I was brave. But it is not bravery; I have no choice. I wake up and live my life. Don't you do the same?
We’d met at a carefree time, a moment full of promise, in its place now were the harsh lessons of the real world.
It is a very funny thing that the sleepier you are, the longer you take about getting to bed.
If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so sparkling, what so fragrant, what so intoxicating, as possibility!
My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
I wish to weep but sorrow is stupid. I wish to believe but belief is a graveyard.
There was a moment in my life when I really wanted to kill myself. And there was one other moment when I was close to that. . . . But even in my most jaded times, I had some hope.
What were you before you met me? I think I was drowning And what are you now? Water
There's gon' be some stuff you gon' see that's gon' make it hard to smile in the future. But through whatever you see, through all the rain and the pain, you gotta keep your sense of humor. You gotta be able to smile through all this bullshit. Remember that.
I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.
I don't get it,' Caroline said, bemused. 'She's the only one with wings. Why is that?' There were so many questions in life. You couldn't ever have all the answers. But I knew this one. It's so she can fly,' I said. Then I started to run.
One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.
When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.
You can't just plan a moment when things get back on track, just as you can't plan the moment you lose your way in the first place.
You must be shapeless, formless, like water. When you pour water in a cup, it becomes the cup. When you pour water in a bottle, it becomes the bottle. When you pour water in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Water can drip and it can crash. Become like water my friend.