“I wonder what will happen when you actually enjoy the pains that life gives us sometimes. You'll be above them.”

“Personally, I think it is better for me to love myself and enjoy being me, than to please someone else by pretending to be someone I'm not.”

“It is not the time that a person has lived that determines maturity, but what he does during that time.”

“A single word spoken at an appropriate time can make someone feel loved, comforted or happier.”

“By worrying about what will happen next year or the year after, you are using up today's time to do so.”

“A peaceful mind is a powerful mind...Set your mind at ease and take charge of yourself.”

“You will be a different person after the storm, because the storm will heal you from your perfection.”

“Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.”

“In his forty-third year William Stoner learned what others, much younger, had learned before him: that the person one loves at first is not the person one loves at last, and that love is not an end...”

“Life is all about practicing for heaven." p 101.”

“The vaunted experience of age was perhaps only a matter of wounds and scarring -- that young minds to old minds might be as young bodies to old bodies: stronger, more vital, less twisted by damage.”

“And because Eddie knew that was only the truth, he said nothing.”

“And the time came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”

“Logically, you should go to school, get good grades, go to college, get a good degree, go into the workplace, then work hard and be happy. The only problem is that happiness isn't logical.”

“You are the cause of your suffering. That means that you alone have the power to change it.”