life

"Some of us weren't born for rewards, Froi. We were born for sacrifices."

"People are much more complicated in real life, but my characters are as subtle and nuanced as I can make them. But if you say my characters are too black and white, you've missed the point. Villains are meant to be black-hearted in popular novels. If you say I have a grey-hearted villain, then I've failed."

"He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived."

"How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these."

"If you want to be a new man you have to stay in new places, and do new things, with people who never knew you before. If you go back to the same old ways, what else can you be but the same old person?"

"If you have love in your life, it can make up for a great many things that are missing. If you don't have love in your life, no matter what else there is, it's not enough."

"I choose to write because it's perfect for me. It's an escape, a place I can go to hide. It's a friend, when I feel out casted from everyone else. It's a journal, when the only story I can tell is my own. It's a book, when I need to be somewhere else. It's control, when I feel so out of control. It's healing, when everything seems pretty messed up.And it's fun, when life is just flat-out boring."

"I remember a specific moment, watching my grandmother hang the clothes on the line, and her saying to me, 'you are going to have to learn to do this,' and me being in that space of awareness and knowing that my life would not be the same as my grandmother's life."

"You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need."

"We all make mistakes, have struggles, and even regret things in our past. But you are not your mistakes, you are not your struggles, and you are here NOW with the power to shape your day and your future."

"If I have any worth, it is to live my life for God so as to teach these peoples; even though some of them still look down on me."

"Life is a lively process of becoming."

"Guitar is the best form of self-expression I know. Everything else, and I'm just sort of tripping around, trying to figure my way through life."

"Face your life, its pain, its pleasure, leave no path untaken."

"All of us suffer some injuries from experiences that seem to have no rhyme or reason. We cannot understand or explain them. We may never know why some things happen in this life. The reason for some of our suffering is known only to the Lord."

"Maybe everyone is just waiting for someone else to save them."

"The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one's self to others."

"If you want to achieve things in life, you've just got to do them, and if you're talented and smart, you'll succeed."

"To leave, after all, was not the same as being left."

"He said that we belonged together because he was born with a flower and I was born with a butterfly and that flowers and butterflies need each other for survival."