You are not broken. You break again and again because that's what breaking means. To be whole.

How anyone becomes herself/is a mystery.

Strength means...acknowledging each of those feelings, your questions and ideas and faith and terror, and meeting what comes with the full force of your heart.

I came to see that what constitutes strength is not just a muscle or will. It can also include the most desperate vulnerability, the saddest heartache, the lightest, sweetest laughter.

Strength means honoring your entire range of emotion, even your despair and heartbreak.

What if all possible pain was only the grief of truth?

Death and life are, for most of us, too complex to comprehend, but Alex Lemon can pretty casually, accurately, and marvelously correlate them to heavy metal and birthday cake.

I've been melted into something too easy to spill. I make more and more of myself in order to make more and more of the baby. He takes it, this making. And somehow he's made more of me, too.

Rewards and punishment is the lowest form of education.

The words you speak into your life are the fountain you swim it.

It is necessary, and even vital, to set standards for your life and the people you allow in it.

When I try to make other people happy, I become happy.

Art doesn't alter things. It points things out, but it doesn't alter them. It can't, no matter what a painter wants to do.

The rest of the planets have their dress and furniture, nay and their inhabitants too, as well as this Earth of ours.

Men of strong affections are jealous of their own genius. They fear lest they should be loved for a quality, and not for themselves.

The flowering of love is meditation.

But, Dad! We can't leave. Uncle Jake is hurt!" Daphne said. "Besides, that's Pinocchio. I want to get an autograph.

Paris and Nicky Hilton? Those girls will show up to the opening of a phone book. It's like a big joke.