The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
The worst way to miss someone, is to sit right next to them, and know you can't have them.

Why is it the only one who made you cry is the only one who can make you stop?

"It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves."

"Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars."

"The little unremembered acts of kindness and love are the best parts of a person's life."

"Confront the dark parts of yourself and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. The willingness to wrestle your demons will cause your angels to sing.  Use the pain as fuel as a reminder of your strength."


"Greatness is not in where we stand, but in what direction we are moving. We must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it -- but sail we must, and not drift, nor lie at anchor."

"If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain."

"To love is to risk not being loved in return
To hope is to risk pain
To try is to risk failure
but risk must be taken
because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing."

"Humility is the thing which is for ever renewing the earth and the stars. It is humility, and not duty, which preserves the stars from wrong, from the unpardonable wrong of casual resignation; is is through humility that the most ancient heavens for us are fresh and strong. The curse that came before history has laid on us all a tendency to be weary of wonders."


The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.


Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master

When you reach for the stars you may not quite get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation

Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand.

It's not enough to have a dream, Unless you're willing to pursue it. It's not enough to know what's right, Unless you're strong enough to do it. It's not enough to learn the truth, Unless you also learn to live it. It's not enough to reach for love, Unless you care enough to give it Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities enough; and if they do not find them, they will make them.