Words worth keeping

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?

I am not young enough to know everything.

We live and breathe words. .... It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest with me, and I with them. Reading your words, what you wrote, how you were lonely sometimes and afraid, but always brave; the way you saw the world, its colors and textures and sounds, I felt--I felt the way you thought, hoped, felt, dreamt. I felt I was dreaming and thinking and feeling with you. I dreamed what you dreamed, wanted what you wanted--and then I realized that truly I just wanted you.

I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.

I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.

Don't be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.

When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.

If you're reading this...Congratulations, you're alive.If that's not something to smile about,then I don't know what is.

That's always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people want to be around someone because they're pretty. It's like picking your breakfeast cereals based on color instead of taste.

Sarcasm is the last refuge of the imaginatively bankrupt.

Malachi scowled. "I don't remember the Clave inviting you into the Glass City, Magnus Bane.""They didn't," Magnus said. "Your wards are down.""Really?" the Consul's voice dripped sarcasm. "I hadn't noticed."Magnus looked concerned. "That's terrible. Someone should have told you." He glanced at Luke. "Tell him the wards are down.

I have decided to stick to love...Hate is too great a burden to bear.

I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.- Atticus Finch