Words worth keeping

If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.

May it be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out.

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

I know we're fucked up, alright? I'm impulsive, and hot tempered, and you get under my skin like no one else. You act like you hate me one minute, and then need me the next. I never get anything right, and I don't deserve you...but I fucking love you, Abby. I love you more than I loved anyone or anything ever. When you're around, I don't need booze, or money, or the fighting, or the one-night stands...

What she had realized was that love was that moment when your heart was about to burst.

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes, and forgot.

To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.

If you have good friends, no matter how much life is sucking , they can make you laugh.

In the endthese things matter most:How well did you love?How fully did you live?How deeply did you let go?

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.

It doesn't matter. I have books, new books, and I can bear anything as long as there are books.

If you're too open-minded; your brains will fall out.