I know she's just trying to protect me, just as I was to protect myself a few short weeks ago, but her words make me aware that the heart in my chest is a muscles like any other. It can hurt.

Life is a gift. Don't forget to live it.

Everything's a risk. Not doing anything is a risk. It's up to you.

For the first time in a long time, I want more than I have.

Flowers for Algernon again? she asks. Doesn't that book always make you cry?One day it won't, I say. I want to be sure to be reading it on that day.

From so high above it, the world seems ordered and deliberate.But I know it's more than that. And less. It is structured and chaotic. Beautiful and strange.

Is it always like that?" I ask, breathless. “No, ” he says. “It's never like that.” I hear the wonder in his voice. And just like that, everything changes.

Love is worth everything. Everything.

A photograph is a kind of time machine.

o•cean (ˈōSHən) n. pl. -s. 1. The endless part of yourself you never knew but always suspected was there. [2015, Whittier]

seriously. “Just because you can’t experience everything doesn’t mean you shouldn’t experience anything.-Nicola Yoon, Everything, Everything

There are two kinds of fears: rational and irrational- or in simpler terms, fears that make sense and fears that don't.

Every baby is born beautiful. It's what we project on them that makes them ugly.

It is the individual man in his individual freedom who can mature with his warm spirit the unripe world.

It is the function of the President, representing the executive principle, to execute the laws.

Always start out with a larger pot than what you think you need.

When it comes to women, our perfectionism gives us a lot of grief. Women want to be super moms, super partners and super performers at work - and all at the same time. That's stressful.

But which was the real me? Let me be perfectly honest: I was a man of many faces. (p.33)

I tend to opt for relaxed family holidays when I can.

Public faith means going public with what’s in your heart, with humility and respect for others, as we speak of the truth of the gospel.

We have taken a situation in the U.K. because of concerns, for example, over immigration and other things, so Britain now is on a path out of Europe.