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Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will.

I don’t know what’s worse: to not know what you are and be happy, or to become what you’ve always wanted to be, and feel alone.

The only obsession everyone wants: ‘love’. People think that in falling in love they make themselves whole? The Platonic union of souls? I think otherwise. I think you’re whole before you begin. And the love fractures you. You’re whole, and then you’re cracked open.

People always feel compelled to sum you up, to presume that they have you and can describe you. That’s fine. But there are many stories inside of me and a lot I want to achieve outside of one flat note.

Don't waste your time chasing butterflies. Mend your garden, and the butterflies will come.

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.

Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That's relativity.

In a relationship, you need somebody who’s going to call you out, not somebody who’s going to let everything slide. You need somebody who doesn’t want to live without you, but can. Not somebody that is dependent, but somebody who is stronger with you. A relationship is two people, not one.

We mature with the damage, not with the years.

Be the person you needed when you were younger.

Curious that we spend more time congratulating people who have succeeded than encouraging people who have not.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.

I used to think the worst thing in life was to end up all alone, it's not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel alone.

The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.

It was my mother who taught me that, by picking up a book, I could 'go anywhere' and 'be anything.'

Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.

Airports see more sincere kisses than wedding halls. The walls of hospitals have heard more prayers than the walls of churches.