“Some people have lives; some people have music.”

It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.

The town was paper, but the memories were not.

Everything that comes together falls apart.

You like someone who can’t like you back because unrequited love can be survived in a way that once-requited love cannot.

I ran like a cheetah – well, like a cheetah that smoked too much.

You don’t get to choose if you get hurt in this world but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.

Whatever you’re worried about, you’re bigger than the worries.

Sometimes you lose a battle. But mischief always wins the war.

What’s the meaning of life? Other people.

Not that smart. Not that hot. Not that nice. Not that funny. That’s me: I’m not that.

Books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.

We all use the future to escape the present.

We’re as likely to hurt the universe as we are to help it, and we’re not likely to do either.

What is the point of being alive if you don’t at least try to do something remarkable?

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

The urge to make art or contemplate philosophy does not go away when you are sick. Those urges just become transfigured by illness.

Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.

You have to live on emotions, not on money or illusions.

It’s not enough to have lived. We should be determined to live for something.

Only you can master your mind, which is what it takes to live a bold life filled with accomplishments most people consider beyond their capability.

I believe in living, I believe in birth, I believe in the sweat of love and in the fire of truth and I believe that a lost ship, steered by tired, sea sick sailors, can still be guided home to port.

Change allows us to live as the best version of ourselves.

A woman who is convinced that she deserves to accept only the best challenges herself to give the best. Then she is living phenomenally.

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.