Moral wounds have this peculiarity - they may be hidden, but they never close; always painful, always ready to bleed when touched, they remain fresh and open in the heart.
You're both the fire and the water that extinguishes it. You're the narrator, the protagonist, and the sidekick. You're the storyteller and the story told. You are somebody's something, but you are also your you.
Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.
I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty...But I am too busy thinking about myself.
Very occasionally, if you pay really close attention, life doesn't suck.
I feel that life is divided into the horrible and the miserable. That's the two categories. The horrible are like, I don't know, terminal cases, you know, and blind people, crippled. I don't know how they get through life. It's amazing to me. And the miserable is everyone else. So you should be thankful that you're miserable, because that's very lucky, to be miserable.
Cynics are simply thwarted romantics.
Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.
Our lives are defined by opportunities, even the ones we miss.
Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. [Stanford University commencement speech, 2005]
There's nothing more embarrassing than to have earned the disfavor of a perceptive animal.
For I have known them all already, known them all— Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons, I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.
Growing up happens when you start having things you look back on and wish you could change -Clary Fray
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying. I don't want to live on in the hearts of my countrymen; I want to live on in my apartment.
We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically.
If you've never eaten while crying you don t know what life tastes like.
When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.
You don't have to disrespect and insult others simply to hold your own ground. If you do, that shows how shaky your own position is.
I know it seems hard sometimes but remember one thing. Through every dark night, there's a bright day after that. So no matter how hard it get, stick your chest out, keep ya head up.... and handle it.
Your life is an occasion. Rise to it.