“Every single time you help somebody stand up you are helping humanity rise.”

“How would your life be different if…You stopped validating your victim mentality? Let today be the day…You shake off your self-defeating drama and embrace your innate ability to recover and achieve.”

“A wind that blows aimlessly is no good to anyone.”

“Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.”

“in a woman’s womb.another chance.to make the world better.”

“My life has been one great big joke,A dance that’s walked,A song that’s spoke,I laugh so hard I almost choke,When I think about myself.”

“I think, well, I’ve had a shit of a life, all things considered. It wasn’t fair. Everyone I’ve ever loved is dead, and my leg hurts all the bloody time… But I think, any God that can do sunsets like that, a different one every night… ‘Strewth, well, you’ve got to respect the old bastard, haven’t you?”

“If you’re afraid of everyone leaving you, what do you do?”Make them stay.”And if you can’t do that, or don’t know how to?”Ellie shrugged. “I don’t know.”Yes, you do. In fact, you’ve done it. You leave first,” Coop said, “so you don’t have to watch them walk away.”

“When I look at my old pictures, all I can see is what I used to be but am no longer. I think: What I can see is what I am not.”

“Leonard asks me if there’s anything I need to know before he dies, I think about it for a minute, turn to him, say what’s the meaning of life, Leonard? He laughs, says that’s an easy one, my son, it’s whatever you want it to be.”

“Memory can make a thing seem to have been much more than it was.”

“Everybody’s damaged by something.”

“They know that tragedy is not glamorous. They know it doesn’t play out in life as it does on a stage or between the pages of a book. It is neither a punishment meted out nor a lesson conferred. Its horrors are not attributable to one single person. Tragedy is ugly and tangled, stupid and confusing.”

“For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don’t believe, no proof is possible.”

“But instead of spending our lives running towards our dreams, we are often running away from a fear of failure or a fear of criticism.”