You've a good heart. Sometimes that's enough to see you safe wherever you go. But mostly, it's not.
Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled. You’ve got to relax, let it happen at times, and at others move forward with it.
I envy people that know love. That have someone who takes them as they are.
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already 3-parts dead.
This is the real secret of life -- to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.
We could do it, you know. What? Leave the district. Run off. Live in the woods. You and I, we could make it.
Life's as kind as you let it be.
She just smiled, said that she loved books more than anything, and started telling him excitedly what each of the ones in her lap was about. And Ove realised that he wanted to hear her talking about the things she loved for the rest of his life.
The person you became with her is worth being.
If you need something from somebody always give that person a way to hand it to you.
Life is like a novel. It's filled with suspense. You have no idea what is going to happen until you turn the page.
In all of living, have much fun and laughter. Life is to be enjoyed, not just endured.
The best of us must sometimes eat our words.
If there was anything that depressed him more than his own cynicism, it was that quite often it still wasn't as cynical as real life.
Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
There are no random acts...We are all connected...You can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind...
You never knew the last time you were seeing someone. You didn't know when the last argument happened, or the last time you had sex, or the last time you looked into their eyes and thanked God they were in your life. After they were gone? That was all you thought about. Day and night.
They had an ordinary life, full of ordinary things—if love can ever be called that.
Prime numbers are what is left when you have taken all the patterns away. I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them.
Some things you hear with your ears. Others, you hear with your heart.