Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.
This life’s hard, but it’s harder if you’re stupid.
Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.
All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.
If you don't know where you're going, any road'll take you there
Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.
We're all human, aren't we? Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving.
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.
Dumbledore watched her fly away, and as her silvery glow faded he turned back to Snape, and his eyes were full of tears. After all this time? Always, said Snape.
The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.
Who are you to judge the life I live? I know I'm not perfect -and I don't live to be- but before you start pointing fingers... make sure you hands are clean!
Reality continues to ruin my life.
Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.
Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.