“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.”

“Judging a person's maturity by the number of years they've lived is misleading. This is because people mature at different rates.”

“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.”

“There comes a time in your life when you have to choose between giving up and staying strong, when situations will try to predict your fate, when friends will depart from you and your echo will be ...”

“Contrary to what we usually believe, moments like these, the best moments in our lives, are not the passive, receptive, relaxing timesalthough such experiences can also be enjoyable, if we have wor...”

“Challenges in life can either enrich you or poison you. You are the one who decides.”

“We accept the love we think we deserve.”

“All Earthquakes and Disasters are warnings theres too much corruption in the world ”

“Its only when youre at the bottom of the ladder that you ascend.”

“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.”