life

"There are things you can't walk away from. Not if you want to live with yourself afterward."

"Sometimes things happen to people and they're not equipped to deal with them."

"A man with outward courage dares to die; a man with inner courage dares to live."

"I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life."

"We live in a dark and romantic and quite tragic world."

"I only photograph myself at poignant moments in my life as a check of where I am and how large my thighs are."

"Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you."

"Each day is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift to Him."

"To build up a library is to create a life. It's never just a random collection of books."

"So, this is how it's become? This is how I've become? A walking contradiction? I'm surrounded by people and feel alone. I claim to crave a bit of normalcy but now that I have some, it's like I don't know what to do with it, I don't know how to be a normal person anymore."

"You can't just plan a moment when things get back on track, just as you can't plan the moment you lose your way in the first place."

"Never give up on anybody. Miracles happen everyday."

"I can’t use my intellect to figure out how to bypass my intellect. Love lies through the spirit, not the mind, and love never lies."

"It is not so much the major events as the small day-to-day decisions that map the course of our living. . . Our lives are, in reality, the sum total of our seemingly unimportant decisions and of our capacity to live by those decisions."

"I know that I will never find my father in any other man who comes into my life, because it is a void in my life that can only be filled by him."

"You will suffer, son of Hades!’ What else is new? Nico thought."

"Letting go means to come to the realization that some people are a part of your history, but not a part of your destiny."

"For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance."

"If people make fun of you, that probably means you're doing something right."

"All that is important is this one moment in movement. Make the moment important, vital, and worth living. Do not let it slip away unnoticed and unused."