We continue to be spilled on by consumerism even though we know it doesn't make us happy.

By puberty I learned that nothing worth having could be easily attained and to succeed one must be single minded.

As long as we prioritize material truths over spiritual truths we will live in tyranny because we are living an illusion

You must not feel persecuted and examined. Liberate yourself from the idea that people are watching you.

I get fixated when I'm bleeding -- I can see why they went in for blood-letting in the medieval times because it makes you feel a bit better. When I cut myself, the drama of it calms me down.

The bad-boy label is just an assumption.

The revolution that's required isn't a revolution of radical ideas, but the implementation of ideas we already have.

I recognize that I have the ability to be selfish, but I also recognize that you can't be happy if you only care about yourself at the expense of other people.

Strength does not have to be belligerent and loud.

If people have some sort of yearning, dissatisfaction or some itching irritability, then it might because they aren't looking in the right direction for a solution. They aren't looking within.

I thought I was promiscuous, but it turns out I was just thorough.

In the biggest and the smallest I sleep but at the same place I stay.

15"General ideas and great conceit are always a fair way to bring about terrible misfortune.

She hadn't realized she was lonely until she began to understand that other people were not.

Were you ever actually going to leave New York, or were you just saying that to get her to finally make a move?” “Clary,” said Luke, “I am shocked that you would suggest such a thing.

I don't look at my life too much. I'm always looking forward, not backward.

I want to be a work of art, at least in my soul, since I can’t be one in my body.

If you carve out what you expect, that's how you end up getting disappointed, not living fully in the present.

The focus of education should not be on suppressive information but on kindling the thirst for knowing.

Alas, how wretched is the being who depends on the stability of public favour!

Rhetoric never won a revolution yet.