We should all start to live before we get too old. Fear is stupid. So are regrets.
Is standing by the window muttering about blood something he does all the time?” asked Simon. “No,” Jace said. “Sometimes he sits on the couch and does it.
It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.
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.
A small but noteworthy note. I’ve seen so many young men over the years who think they’re running at other young men. They are not. They are running at me.
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
When we are young, the words are scattered all around us. As they are assembled by experience, so also are we, sentence by sentence, until the story takes shape.
No one has ever become poor by giving.
A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?
It’s really a wonder that I haven’t dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at 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.
What and how much had I lost by trying to do only what was expected of me instead of what I myself had wished to do?
Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip.
Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.
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