Meredith Grey might just be the best character in "Grey's Anatomy" -- and no, it's not just because she's married to the god that is Derek Shepherd. Viewers can always count on Meredith going off on a philosophical rant every episode and leaving us with some pretty great advice. Here's some of her best:

1. "Your life is a gift. Accept it. No matter how screwed up or painful it seems to be. Somethings are going to work out as if they were destined to happen, as if they were just meant to be."

2. "We're friends, real friends. And that means, no matter how long it takes, when you finally do decide to look back, I'll still be here."

3. "Maybe our old wounds teach us something. They remind us where we've been and what we've overcome. They teach us lessons about what to avoid in the future. That's what we like to think. But that's not the way it is, is it? Some things we just have to learn over and over and over again."

4. "People have scars in all sorts of unexpected places, like secret road maps of their personal histories, diagrams of all their old wounds. Most of our old wounds heal, leaving nothing behind but a scar. But some of them don’t. Some wounds we carry with us everywhere and though the cut’s long gone, the pain still lingers."

5. "At the end of the day, when it comes down to it, all we really want is to be close to someone. So this thing where we all keep our distance and pretend not to care about each other, it’s usually a load of bull. So we pick and choose who we want to remain close to and once we’ve chosen those people, we tend to stick close by. No matter how much we hurt them, the people that are still with you at the end of the day, those are the ones worth keeping."

6. "Carpe diem, how annoying is carpe diem? How are you supposed to plan a life, a career, a family, if you’re always carpe-ing the diem? If we all seized every moment of every day, there wouldn’t be doctors who would sit through med school. We’d all be too busy living in the now. Whatever that means."

7. "These are the things we beg for. A root canal, an IRS audit, coffee spilled on our clothes. When the really terrible things happen, we start begging a god we don’t believe in to bring back the little horrors and take away this. It seems quaint now, doesn’t it? The flood in the kitchen, the poison oak, the fight that leaves you shaking with rage. Would it have helped if we could see what else was coming? Would we have known that those were the best moments of our lives?"

8. "Don’t wonder why people go crazy. Wonder why they don’t in the face of all we can lose in a day, in an instant. Wonder what the hell it is that makes us hold it together."

9. "Failure is inevitable, unavoidable, but failure should never get the last word. You have to hold on to what you want. You have to not take no for an answer and take what’s coming to you. Never give in, never give up. Stand up. Stand up and take it."

10. "I think it's important to take the time to tell the people you love how much you love them while they can still hear you."