We design our lives through the power of our choices. We feel most helpless when we've made choices by default, when we haven't designed our lives on our own.

The only thing that matters, at the end of a stay on earth, is how well did we love, what was the quality of our love?

A cloud does not know why it moves in just such a direction and at such a speed, it feels an impulsion... this is the place to go now. But the sky knows the reasons and the patterns behind all clouds, and you will know, too, when you lift yourself high enough to see beyond horizons.

When you dream, all the scenery, characters, events, perils, and outcomes are built from your own consciousness, the darks and oppressions as well as the delights. Same with the world awake, though it takes you longer to build it.

Never had I understood that I command, with absolute authority, the ship of my life! I decide its mission and rules and discipline, at my word waits every tool and sail, every cannon, the strength of every soul on board. I'm master of a team of passionate skills to sail me through hell's own jaws the second I nod the direction to steer.

You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however.

Most gulls don't bother to learn more than the simplest facts of flight - how to get from shore to food and back again