Its best to live as if it were the first and last day of my life.

Everything, absolutely everything on this earth makes sense, and even the smallest things are worthy of our consideration.

He had to choose between something he had become accustomed to and something he wanted to have.

Don't you think you're quite young?' 'I'm twenty-one,' said Brida. 'If I wanted to start learning ballet, I'd be conseidered too old.

One always has to know when a stage comes to an end. If we insist on staying longer than the necessary time, we lose the happiness and the meaning of the other stages we have to go through. Closing cycles, shutting doors, ending chapters – whatever name we give it, what matters is to leave in the past the moments of life that have finished.

Any given thing on the face of the earth could reveal the history of all things

I've noticed that loneliness gets stronger when we try to face it down, but gets weaker when we simply ignore it.