Life Is Beautiful

Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone … just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.

Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.

Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second's encounter with God and with eternity.

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

It's cruel to give hope where none should be. It only turns into disappointment, resentment, rage -- all the things that make this life more difficult than it already is.

It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.

She imagined loving him would feel like falling in love with darkness, frightening and consuming yet utterly beautiful when the stars came out.

Every person has the power to change their fate if they are brave enough to fight for what they desire more than anything.

No one is exclusively bad, nor is anyone exclusively good. Some are just forced to work harder at suppressing the bad.

I feel like everyone fakes who they really are, when deep down we're all equal amounts of screwed up. Some of us are just better at hiding it than others.

Just because we didn’t end up on the same wave, doesn’t mean we aren’t still a part of the same ocean.

All humans make mistakes. What determines a person's character aren't the mistakes we make. It's how we take those mistakes and turn them into lessons rather than excuses.

There is no such thing as bad people. We’re all just people who sometimes do bad things.

Life isn't fair, it's just fairer than death, that's all.

I've been saying it so long to you, you just wouldn't listen. Every time you said 'Farm Boy do this' you thought I was answering 'As you wish' but that's only because you were hearing wrong. 'I love you' was what it was, but you never heard.

I love you,' Buttercup said. 'I know this must come as something of a surprise to you, since all I've ever done is scorn you and degrade you and taunt you, but I have loved you for several hours now, and every second, more. I thought an hour ago that I loved you more than any woman has ever loved a man, but a half hour after that I knew that what I felt before was nothing compared to what I felt then. But ten minutes after that, I understood that my previous love was a puddle compared to the high seas before a storm.