For the first time in a long time, I want more than I have.

Life is a gift. Don't forget to live it.

Everything's a risk. Not doing anything is a risk. It's up to you.

Flowers for Algernon again? she asks. Doesn't that book always make you cry?One day it won't, I say. I want to be sure to be reading it on that day.

From so high above it, the world seems ordered and deliberate.But I know it's more than that. And less. It is structured and chaotic. Beautiful and strange.

Is it always like that?" I ask, breathless. “No, ” he says. “It's never like that.” I hear the wonder in his voice. And just like that, everything changes.

Love is worth everything. Everything.

A photograph is a kind of time machine.

o•cean (ˈōSHən) n. pl. -s. 1. The endless part of yourself you never knew but always suspected was there. [2015, Whittier]

I know she's just trying to protect me, just as I was to protect myself a few short weeks ago, but her words make me aware that the heart in my chest is a muscles like any other. It can hurt.

seriously. “Just because you can’t experience everything doesn’t mean you shouldn’t experience anything.-Nicola Yoon, Everything, Everything

if you want to match your beat with the universe look at the deepest level of present.

He was seemingly born not only with a gift for language, but with a particularly nasty clock which makes him go crazy every three years or so.

If we fail to look after others when they need help, who will look after us?

People trust that a guy who can bring up two kids on his own might be able to help them.

I went on the pill when I was 16, put on four stone... so that proved to be a very effective contraceptive.

Most strong players are completely self-centered.... They are blind to how other people feel or else simply don't care.

Whether men are pleased or not, we will, we must, worship the Lamb that was slain.

My worst day is still a really good day. I complain, but I catch myself and count my blessings. I am truly blessed.

I want to say one word to you and this word is “Joy”. Wherever there are consecrated people, seminarians, men and women religious, young people, there is joy, there is always joy!

Where the greater malady is fixed, The lesser is scarce felt.