“Our lives are composed of a finite set of moments that we choose how to spend.”

Great books help you understand, and they help you feel understood.

I didn’t need you, you idiot. I picked you. And then you picked me back.

She loved mysteries so much that she became one.

What you must understand about me is that I’m a deeply unhappy person.

The marks humans leave are too often scars.

Grief does not change you, It reveals you.

There is no shortage of fault to be found amid our stars.

The measure of a friendship is not its physicality but its significance.

God knows that’s what everyone else does.

You are so busy being you that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.

You are so busy being you that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.

Poetry is just so emo.” he said. “Oh, the pain. The pain. It always rains. In my soul.

The good times and the bad times both will pass.

There’s some people in this world who you can just love and love and love no matter what.

There is no glory in illness. There is no meaning to it. There is no honor in dying of.

Crying is you, plus tears.

The person who takes no chances generally has to take whatever is left when others are through choosing.

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects.

Freedom is choosing your responsibility. It’s not having no responsibilitie s; it’s choosing the ones you want.

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men’s imperfections, and conceal your own.

The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for you to choose what he shall know, what he shall do. It is chosen and foreordained and he only holds the key to his own secret.

No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.

When people are presented with the alternatives of hating themselves for their failure or hating others for their success, they seldom choose to hate themselves.