The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.

Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.

There is no remedy for love but to love more.

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

It's the beauty within us that makes it possible for us to recognize the beauty around us. The question is not what you look at but what you see.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined...

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately.

be yourself- not your idea of what you think somebody else's idea of yourself should be.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

The greatest tragedy in life is to spend your whole life fishing only to discover it was never fish that you were after.

The only people who ever get anyplace interesting are the people who get lost.

Another person's thoughts about you are outside of your jurisdiction

Only Jace, Clary thought, could look cool in pajama bottoms and an old T-shirt, but he pulled it off, probably through sheer force of will. -pg. 329-

The parasites live where the great have little secret sores.

You know, I guess I'm like any other political figure: Everybody wants to be loved.

The lion is ashamed, it's true, when he hunts with the fox.

A root is a flower that disdains fame.

Any man who pursues for peace is a remarkable man!

But most commonly, it's one poem that I work on with a lot of intensity.

In an age when man has forgotten his origins and is blind even to his most essential needs for survival, water along with other resources has become the victim of his indifference.

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