“Is there such a thing as being too happy?”

“Even the tiniest of flowers can have the toughest roots.”

“Thats what mountains do, they taunt you, lure you to the freedom of the wilderness, and it is fucking exhilarating.”

“When youre in the wild, theres nothing to hide behind. No bars or credit cards or movie theatres or cell phones or credentials or security. Youre just alone with yourself. You look around and lose ...”

“Her eyes remind me of the Pacific: Raging. Fearless. Restless.”

“Who am I fooling? Bad dreams never end. We just pretend they arent there.”

“work at our responsibility as parents as if everything in life counted on it, because in fact everything in life does count on it.”

“Happiness [is] only real when shared”

“That's what people do who love you. They put their arms around you and love you when you're not so lovable.”

“I don't care what you say to me. I care what you share with me.”

“Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone wont either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are...”

“Never knew what a friendship was, Never knew how to really love, You can't be what I need you to, & I don't know why I fuck with you”

“The seeking of a mate shall be undertaken with due preparation and care. A life-bond should never be contemplated as a light thing--unlike a legal union or sanctified joining, the sealing of souls ...”

“I dont have cookie-cutter relationships, Rumi. Women arent iPhone apps that I download and discard!”

“In advising the heads of state to learn from tragedy rather than perpetuate its existence Robert Kennedy excalimed, "Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live." ...”