“Do I dare Disturb the universe? In a minute there is time For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.”

“No amount of regretting can change the past, and no amount of worrying can change the future.”

“Face your life, its pain, its pleasure, leave no path untaken.”

“Let me be, was all I wanted. Be what I am, no matter how I am.”

“Unexpected intrusions of beauty. This is what life is.”

“The past is a place of reference, not a place of residence; the past is a place of learning, not a place of living.”

“The thing about getting older is that you don’t need everything to be possible any more, you just need things to be certain.”

“How would your life be different if…You stopped making negative judgmental assumptions about people you encounter? Let today be the day…You look for the good in everyone you meet and respect their journey.”

“Some people, they can’t just move on, you know, mourn and cry and be done with it. Or at least seem to be. But for me… I don’t know. I didn’t want to fix it, to forget. It wasn’t something that was broken. It’s just…something that happened. And like that hole, I’m just finding ways, every day, of working around it. Respecting and remembering and getting on at the same time. ”

“I think I’ve discovered the secret of life — you just hang around until you get used to it.”

“Do not let the memories of your past limit the potential of your future. There are no limits to what you can achieve on your journey through life, except in your mind.”

“Dear God,” she prayed, “let me be something every minute of every hour of my life. Let me be gay; let me be sad. Let me be cold; let me be warm. Let me be hungry…have too much to eat. Let me be ragged or well dressed. Let me be sincere – be deceitful. Let me be truthful; let me be a liar. Let me be honorable and let me sin. Only let me be something every blessed minute. And when I sleep, let me dream all the time so that not one little piece of living is ever lost.”

“Sleep my little baby-ohSleep until you wakenWhen you wake you’ll see the worldIf I’m not mistaken…Kiss a loverDance a measure,Find your nameAnd buried treasure…Face your lifeIts pain, Its pleasure,Leave no path untaken.”

“I know that the whole point—the only point—is tofind the things that matter, and hold on to them, and fight for them, and refuse tolet them go.”