There are more places you haven't heard of then you're heard of!' I loved that

Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.

There's nothing wrong with not understanding yourself.

So many people enter and leave your life! Hundreds of thousands of people! You have to keep the door open so they can come in! But it also means you have to let them go!

The mistakes I've made are dead to me. But I can't take back the things I never did.

Why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future.

Why do beautiful songs make you sad?' 'Because they aren't true.' 'Never?' 'Nothing is beautiful and true.

Songs are as sad as the listener.

Sometimes people who seem good end up being not as good as you might have hoped, you know?

I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.

He promised us that everything would be okay. I was a child, but I knew that everything would not be okay. That did not make my father a liar. It made him my father.

What's life without whim's?

I asked my Greek chorus about this sort of hero: the Underappreciated Personification of Resolve.

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.

I'm always fighting the cup-is-half-empty way of being, versus the cup-is-half-full. I'm always fighting the pessimistic versus the positive.

The goodness of a thing created is the perfection of its fitness for the use which it serves. Now that use is either particular or universal.

What I’ve learned through my meditation is a sense of equanimity, a sense of all things being equal.

If you go to bed at night and think about your day and you haven't laughed very much, then you must jump out of bed and go do something fun.

Optimism is a tool with a certain clear set of benefits: it fights depression, it promotes achievement and produces better health.

Friend, hast thou considered the "rugged, all-nourishing earth," as Sophocles well names her; how she feeds the sparrow on the housetop, much more her darling man?

The Happiest people DO NOT necessarily have the BEST THINGS. They simply APPRECIATE the things they have.