“Faith, he had learned that night in front of the flickering television, was most glorious when it was most untouched by reason.”

“Energy and ideas flows out of your self-belief”

“They go on to this better place, you know, which is what they wanted all along. But you and me, we’re still left behind with all the questions they couldn’t answer.”

“Sometimes change was good. Sometimes it was even exactly what you needed.”

“Time is not the great teacher. Experience is. A man may live a whole life, but if he never leaves his home to experience that life, he dies knowing nothing. A mere child who has suffered and lived can be the wiser of the two.”

“The moral of the story is that seeking truth, rather than fear of pain or the desire for happiness, is the correct orientation toward inner work, since seeking happiness makes you its prisoner just as surely as does pain.”

“I — I alone know how to mourn for him as he deserves.’ But while we were still shaking hands, such a look of awful desolation came upon her face that I perceived she was one of those creatures that are not the playthings of Time. For her he had died only yesterday. And, by Jove! the impression was so powerful that for me, too, he seemed to have died only yesterday — nay, this very minute. I saw her and him in the same instant of time — his death and her sorrow — I saw her sorrow in the very moment of his death. Do you understand? I saw them together — I heard them together.”

“I’m… I’m so in love with you that I can’t even stand it! Sasuke! Stay with me, and I’ll never let you regret it! We’ll have fun every day, and… And you’ll be happy! I’ll make sure of it! I’ll do anything for you, Sasuke! Just, please… Please, please don’t go! I’ll even help you take revenge! I mean, I’ll manage it somehow, so… So please… Stay with me.”

“A woman has but two loves in life: the one who broke her heart and the one she spends the rest of her life with.”- Carolyn Chase, former Broadcast Journalist and heroine Kate Theodore’s mother”

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”

“Stay here with me, Trishy. Don’t go back to your old life. Make a new one, here. With me. I know it’s a hell of a big thing I’m asking—but I’m asking. Stay.- Joe”

“What’s your favorite place to visit?” He absently answered, “Wherever you are.” “Bowen, five things about you can’t all be about me.” But you’re the only good thing that I’ve got.”

“If you have one parent who loves you, even if they can’t buy you clothes, they’re so poor and they make all kinds of mistakes and maybe sometimes they even give you awful advice, but never for one moment do you doubt their love for you–if you have this, you have incredibly good fortune.If you have two parents who love you? You have won life’s Lotto.If you do not have parents, or if the parents you have are so broken and so, frankly, terrible that they are no improvement over nothing, this is fine.It’s not ideal because it’s harder without adults who love you more than they love themselves. But harder is just harder, that’s all.”

“I saw a news report recently that measured average video game use by American men between the ages of twenty-five and thirty-five: twenty hours per week. Do you mean the flower of America’s masculinity can’t think of anything more important to do with twenty hours a week than sit in front of a video screen? Folks, this ain’t normal. Can’t we unplug already?”

“Connecting with others gives us a sense of inclusion, connection, interaction, safety, and community. Your vibe attracts your tribe, so if you want to attract positive and healthy relationships, be one! Staying connected and getting reconnected feeds the flow of goodness which empowers our humanity.”