“Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.”

I would rather live my life as if there is a god and die to find out there isn’t, than live my life as if there isn’t and die to find out there is.

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

But sometimes it takes more courage to live than to shoot yourself.

I know that man is capable of great deeds. But if he isn’t capable of great emotion, well, he leaves me cold.

The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits.

The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits.

I know simply that the sky will last longer than I.

What is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying.

Where there is no hope, it is incumbent on us to invent it.

We have to live and let live in order to create what we are.

Sometimes at night I would sleep open-eyed underneath a sky dripping with stars. I was alive then.

I looked up at the mass of signs and stars in the night sky and laid myself open for the first time to the benign indifference of the world.

If absolute truth belongs to anyone in this world, it certainly does not belong to the man or party that claims to possess it.

We are all exceptional cases. We all want to appeal against something! Each of us insists on being innocent at all cost, even if he has to accuse the whole human race and heaven itself.

Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.

People hasten to judge in order not to be judged themselves.

The Father willed that his blessed and glorious Son, whom he gave to us and who was born for us, should through his own blood offer himself as a sacrificial victim on the altar of the cross. This was to be done not for himself through whom all things were made, but for our sins.

Good sports facilities are a blessing.

Watch for big problems. They disguise big opportunities.

I don’t think you can be too ashamed of anything as long as you were being yourself. I think why people feel, um, so entitled over me is that they’ve watched me grow up. But that’s a blessing and a curse.

The true basis of morality is utility; that is, the adaptation of our actions to the promotion of the general welfare and happiness; the endeavour so to rule our lives that we may serve and bless mankind.

The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.

He was the blessing that came into her life. She was the gift that he found. The universe brought them into each others lives. Destiny would find a way to bring them together. And they would find their way to each other.

I hide my grief, just like the blessed birds hide themselves when they are preparing to die, my love.