“i am anearthquake& dancemost heavilyupon all myfaults.”

“Wise is the one who flavors the future with some salt from the past. Becoming dust is no threat to the phoenix born from the ash.”

“Your fate is never determined when your massive imagination is.”

“You can'tassume i'min bad shapejust becausei've run out ofthe energy toimpressyou.”

“Life's a gloomy puddle, until you start jumping in it.”

“Some bow to the spirit of collectivism, while you ascend to the spirit of your own eclectic rhythms.”

“If a man does not work passionately - even furiously - at being the best in the world at what he does, he fails his talent, his destiny, and his God.”

“I mean a man whose hopes and aims may sometimes lie (as most men's sometimes do, I dare say) above the ordinary level, but to whom the ordinary level will be high enough after all if it should prov...”

“Not everything you're good at is what you're called to do.”

“... and you might say no, you will never do that, thats not you, not who I know, not who I thought you wereand I will saywatch mefor I never did this to fit inor stand outbut to live.”

“... and you might say “no, you will never do that, that’s not you, not who I know, not who I thought you were”and I will say“watch me”for I never did this to fit inor stand outbut to live.”

“Despite your best efforts, people are going to be hurt when it's time for them to be hurt.”

“At the end of the day it's about how much you can bear, how much you can endure. Being together, we harm nobody; being apart, we extinguish ourselves.”

“Life is not a PG feel-good movie. Real life often ends badly. Literature tries to document this reality, while showing us it is still possible for us to endure nobly.”