Being good doesn't get you anything.

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.

the smell of honey, and you, smiling through the smoke rising from my mug.

Tell me, dawnmaker. Have you ever loved? Have you ever seen the dark of night and began to think, even for a moment, you both could be as one?

We live in the era of fairy tale endings. We watch all these movies and read all these books where somehow everything always works out. We think there’s something wrong with reality because the acceptable standards for our reality is fantasy. We grew up listening to stories where people never need to save themselves because someone else always does it for them. So, we keep sitting around waiting for someone to come save us from the dreary routine of reality. We live in a world of fantasy without realising that as long as we’re there we’ll never be happy with our reality.

She carried enough sad eyes to last for the rest of his life.

Let them know you care. Ease their despair.

The greatest teacher, failure is.