life

"What made me run away was doubtless not so much the fear of settling down, but of settling down permanently in something ugly."

"Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the mext moment"

"Be steady and well-ordered in your life so that you can be fierce and original in your work."

"Lightning doesn’t thunder twice. Let that be a lesson in love."

"Because you have to just go with the flow. Your life is not your own, with people coming in and out all the time. You get mellow because you have to."

"Many people say I'm the best women's soccer player in the world. I don't think so. And because of that, someday I just might be."

"Do not lose hope — what you seek will be found. Trust ghosts. Trust those that you have helped to help you in their turn. Trust dreams. Trust your heart, and trust your story. (from 'Instructions')"

"Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing."

"It is worth it to leave behing my minor life for grander maybes-Miles "Pudge"

"He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life."

"At some point we all look up and realize we are lost in a maze."

"Timendi causa est nescire - Ignorance is the cause of fear."

"Life is nothing without a little chaos to make it interesting."

"I want to be in a relationship where you telling me you love me is just a ceremonious validation of what you already show me."

"Dreamers are mocked as impractical. The truth is they are the most practical, as their innovations lead to progress and a better way of life for all of us."

"My hope still is to leave the world a bit better than when I got here."

"May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live."

"My experience of life is that it is not divided up into genres; it’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky."

"You live but once; you might as well be amusing."

"Just when you thought you’d considered all the angles, life goes from a square to a cube. Love should also be 3D."