Quotes

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face; You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”

Fairy tales do not tell children that dragons exist.  Children already know that dragons exist.  Fairy tales tell children that dragons can be killed.

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none

For we pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be cheaply won

There is no formula for success, except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings

The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love, and to be greater than our suffering

We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered

We all die.  The goal isn’t to live forever.  The goal is to create something that will

The past is our definition.  We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it.  But we will escape it only by adding something better to it

We are all brothers under the skin, and I, for one, would be willing to skin humanity to prove it

The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, is in its loyalty to each other

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

I have loved to the point of madness; That which is called madness, That which to me, is the only sensible way to love

Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong.  No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it

Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too.  They live inside us, and sometimes, they win

No matter how dark the moment, love and hope are always possible

You don’t really understand human nature unless you know why a child on a merry-go-round will wave at his parents every time around and why his parents will always wave back

Writer Cyril Connolly said, “Better to write for yourself and have no public than to write for the public and have no self

Show me a hero, and I will write you a tragedy.” F. Scott Fitzgerald

Whatever you are, be a good one

I believe humanity was born from conflict. Maybe that’s why in all of us lives a dark side. Some of us embrace it. Some have no choice. The rest of us fight it. In the end, it’s as natural as the air we breathe. At some point, we’re forced to face the truth. Ourselves

What happened in the past that was painful has a great deal to do with what we are today

We are each on our own journey.  Each of us is on our very own adventure; encountering all kinds of challenges, and the choices we make on that adventure will shape us as we go; these choices will stretch us, test us and push us to our limit; and our adventure will make us stronger than we ever know we could be

Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain

Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die

Life is about choices. Some we regret, some we're proud of. We are what we chose to be

There is no terror in the bang of the gun; only the anticipation of it

I'm not afraid of death. It's the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life

Don’t let anyone ever make you feel like you don’t deserve what you want

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us

What we do in life echoes in eternity

Get busy livin’, or get busy dyin’

Forever is a long time and time has a way of changing things

Here’s to lying, stealing, cheating, and drinking.
If you must lie, lie with the one you love.
If you must steal, steal away from bad company.
If you must cheat, cheat death.
And if you drink, drink to the moments that take your breath away

You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are them

If you cannot be a poet, be the poem