Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.
I don't know how I look, but I know how I feel: Young. Goofy. Infinite.
Each new day is a blank page in the diary of your life. The secret of success is in turning that diary into the best story you possibly can.
That is the hardest thing of all. It is much harder to judge yourself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself, it's because you're truly a wise man.
I always knew, on some level, that I wouldn't live long. It's simply not written in my stars.
That's how it is on this bitch of an earth.
Life is the farce we are all forced to endure.
The future is meant for those who are willing to let go of the worst parts of the past. When you cannot take two steps without turning around to inspect your footsteps, you are getting nowhere fast.
Atticus had said it was the polite thing to talk to people about what they were interested in, not about what you were interested in.
Don't leave it all unsaid, somewhere in the wasteland of your head.
People took such awful chances with chemicals and their bodies because they wanted the quality of their lives to improve. They lived in ugly places where there were only ugly things to do. They didn't own doodley-squat, so they couldn't improve their surroundings. so they did their best to make their insides beautiful instead.
Some people insist that 'mediocre' is better than 'best.' They delight in clipping wings because they themselves can't fly. They despise brains because they have none.
The friends you make in college are friends you'll have for life, even if you don't talk for years at a time.
Life is life. You choose to live it or you do not.
In the haunted house of life, art is the only stair that doesn't creak.
I knew that in the silence that followed, that anything could happen here. It might be too late again. I might have missed my chance. But I would at least know I tried, that I took my heart and extended my hand, whatever the outcome.
I began to understand that suffering and disappointments and melancholy are there not to vex us or cheapen us or deprive us of our dignity but to mature and transfigure us.
Life is a winking light in the darkness.
To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funnybone.
It’s always about timing. If it’s too soon, no one understands. If it’s too late, everyone’s forgotten.
