1. “When life is sweet, say thank you and celebrate. When life is bitter, say thank you and grow.”

2. “If we learn from losing, we become winners in the end.”

3. “Character is how you treat those that can do nothing for you.”

4. “Never doubt that you are valuable and powerful and deserving of every chance in the world.”

5. “Perhaps, somewhere, someday, at a less miserable time, we may see each other again.”

6. “If it is right, it happens - The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.”

7. “Don’t lose your focus, you gotta keep striving for your goals. What other people think of you doesn’t matter.”

8. “I spent a lifetime inside the destruction. And like anyone, I made a world someplace else.”

9. “How you love yourself is how you teach others to love you.”

10. “Give less fucks, get fucked more.”

11. “I don’t just want to be a footnote in someone else’s happiness.”

12. “Vulnerability is not winning or losing; it’s having the courage to show up and be seen when we have no control over the outcome.”

13. “Perhaps I am addicted to solitude and feel safe and easy in it, as if all were not being wasted while I ran in ever narrowing circles.”

14. “It took me a long time to realize this: we get to choose what defines us.”

15. “Life’s hilarious, one big universal prank. We all die laughing.”

16. “I wish I could be happier to make other people happier.”

17. “There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.”

18. “You have all the time in the world to be whoever you want.”

19. “I want to trust but it scares the skin off my bones.”

20. “But I am learning that perfection isn’t what matters. In fact, it’s the very thing that can destroy you if you let it.”

21. “I know I’m a handful but that’s what you got two hands for.”

22. “In the space between yes and no, there’s a lifetime. It’s the difference between the path you walk and the one you leave behind; it’s the gap between who you thought you could be and who you really are; it’s the legroom for the lies you’ll tell yourself in the future.”

23. “I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.”

24. “Turning flesh into love, love into action, action into truth, beauty, goodness. That is the import of human life.”

25. “If you aren’t amazed most of the time you aren’t paying attention.”

26. “Just because something is beautiful doesn’t mean it’s good.”

27. “It was when I stopped fighting it. When I finally let go and stopped struggling so much. That’s when I survived.”

28. “I am tired of trying to hold things together that cannot be held. Trying to control what cannot be controlled. I am tired of denying myself what I want for fear of breaking things I cannot fix. They will break no matter what we do.”

29. “The most important things are the hardest to say.”

30. “You only say goodbye to the people you are never gonna see again.”

31. “Sometimes it feels better not to talk. At all. About anything. To anyone.”

32. “It’s OK to be scared but you have to get out there, open up, make mistakes, learn, be stronger, and start all over again.”

33. “When someone is ill, no matter how trivial or serious their condition, telling them that there are people worse off will not make them better.”

34. “To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow.”

35. “What a time to be alive.”

36. “Beware the barrenness of a busy life.”

37. “Isn’t everything we do in life a way to be loved a little more?”

38. “You’ll dream yourself to death building kingdoms on the ruins of your memory.”

39. “Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, education, the money, than circumstances, than failure, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill. We can not change our past… we can not change the fact that people will act a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.”

40. “Life does not change, but people do. So learn to accept that not everybody is who you thought you knew.”

41. “I suppose it will all make sense some day.”

42. “You’re never as powerful as when you know you’re powerless.”

43. “I keep creating myself, I am the giver and the gift.”

44. “The brain speculates, but the heart knows.”

45. “Own your disappointment, acknowledge it for what it is, and move on.”

46. “When you come back you will not be you. And I may not be I.”

47. “When you’re living your life in endurance mode, you don’t expect anything good to happen. I’m not saying you don’t dream about some miracle that would change everything for the better. But you pretty much know it’s only a fantasy, and that you have no real control over anything.”

48. “For all things we want to say there is an inexpressible center.”

49. “Define loneliness? Yes. It’s what we can’t do for each other.”

50. “No matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas can change the world.”