“Optimism can keep a fool from accepting failure.”

If the others heard me talking out loud they would think that I am crazy. But since I am not, I do not care.

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.

We would be together and have our books and at night be warm in bed together with the windows open and the stars bright.

Never confuse movement with action.

I’m not brave any more darling. I’m all broken. They’ve broken me.

The rain will stop, the night will end, the hurt will fade. Hope is never so lost that it can’t be found.

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader.

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

Never delay kissing a pretty girl or opening a bottle of whiskey.

All thinking men are atheists.

Always do sober what you said you’d do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.

When you stop doing things for fun you might as well be dead.

All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

No one you love is ever truly lost.

Accept yourself, love yourself, and keep moving forward. If you want to fly, you have to give up what weighs you down.

Being grateful does not mean that everything is necessarily good. It just means that you can accept it as a gift.

I’m learning to accept myself. I’m still in the process of learning to love who I am.

Life is about accepting the challenges along the way, choosing to keep moving forward, and savoring the journey.

I feel something troubling inside of me which scares me, an exhausting violence. But I accept the great adventure of being me.

Man must not attempt to dispel the ambiguity of his being but, on the contrary, accept the task of realizing it.

Despite knowing they won’t be here for long they still choose to live their brightest lives- sunflowers.

I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end.