Words worth keeping

Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.

Be brave to stand for what you believe in even if you stand alone.

Life, he realize, was much like a song. In the beginning there is mystery, in the end there is confirmation, but it's in the middle where all the emotion resides to make the whole thing worthwhile.

You couldn't relive your life, skipping the awful parts, without losing what made it worthwhile. You had to accept it as a whole--like the world, or the person you loved.

That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.

The past has no power over the present moment.

Don't waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.

Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind.

If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud.

Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't. I'm not surprised some people prefer books.

I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.

I've got nothing to do today but smile.

Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.

I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.

Learn to light a candle in the darkest moments of someone’s life. Be the light that helps others see; it is what gives life its deepest significance.