AIGLATSON

Sometimes you read a book so special that you want to carry it around with you for months after you’ve finished just to stay near it.

“I am all in a sea of wonders. I doubt; I fear; I think strange things which I dare not confess to my own soul.”

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.

I never realized what a big deal that was. How amazing it is to find someone who wants to hear about all the things that go on in your head.

How do you move on? You move on when your heart finally understands that there is no turning back.

I do my best thinking at night when everyone else is sleeping. No interruptions. No noise. I like the feeling of being awake when no one else is.

We do not remember days, we remember moments.

All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.

I see myself forever and ever as the ridiculous [person], the lonely soul, the wanderer, the restless frustrated artist, the [person] in love with love, always in search of the absolute, always seeking the unattainable.

…Thoughts could leave deeper scarring than almost anything else…

We don’t even ask for happiness, just a little less painful.

You are not weak just because your heart feels so heavy.

Be careful who you open up to. Only a few people actually care. The rest just want to have something to gossip about.