“Life, for the living, is a gift of opportunity; an exercise of the will to choose.”

“If you spend your whole life trying to find yourself, you might miss your chance to create the person you’re trying to find.”

“To be happy, without any condition, you should seek the roots of the happiness in internal factors — unconditional happiness means to practice this phenomenon without any spatio-temporal dependency, that is, everywhere and everytime. Unlike external factors, which determine the conditional happiness in a particular spatio-temporal continuum, and which is out of personal control in such a way that a small difference in such a continuum could influence your sense of happiness, internal factors are more likely to be controlled by you, at least to some extent, therefore, are promising a chance to arrange your happiness yourself without any dependence on someone else.”

“Don’t let your inner demons Take the best of your creeds. If God gives you lemons, You must plant the seeds. Do not be so self-absorbed That you can’t see the tree. If you succumb to what’s morbid You bury your chance to be free.”

“When two wise men are blaming one another,then time has come for you to be the third one.”

“Nothing that happens to you was meant to be. The only thing about you that was meant to be is you. Blaze your own trail.”

“The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.”

“Le hasard, c’est peut-être le pseudonyme de Dieu quand il ne veut pas signer.”

“Not all can believe anything they want to, because not all have the ability to believe.”

“I don’t play with my life by talking bullshit.I might have some chances in this bitchy life,but I’ve got only one fuckin’ chance to give…my best shot.”

“Children understood at a very young age that doing nothing was an expression of power. Doing nothing was a choice swollen with omnipotence. It was, in fact, godly.And this, she now realized, was the reason why the gods did nothing. Proof of their omniscience. After all, to act was to announce awful limitations, for it revealed that chance acted first, the accidents were just that–events beyond the will of the gods–and all they could do in answer was to attempt to remedy the consequences, to alter natural ends. To act, then, was an admission of fallibility.”

“All statistics have outliers.”