You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you’ll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.
You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.
All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.
With great power... comes great need to take a nap. Wake me up later.
It’s only after we’ve lost everything that we’re free to do anything.
When someone shows you who they are believe them; the first time.
Get busy living or get busy dying.
Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.
Always do what you are afraid to do.
You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can’t see from the center.
People aren’t either wicked or noble. They’re like chef’s salads, with good things and bad things chopped and mixed together in a vinaigrette of confusion and conflict.
Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering.
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.
The unexamined life is not worth living.