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Succes is really nothing more than the record of failure. To be successful means you must be willing to fail more than anyone else.

I don't see the point of truth anymore, it causes just as much heartbreak as lying.

He felt that his life was nothing more than a light that would blink once in the history of the universe and then be forgotten.

I suppose the key to a good life is to gently overlook the truth and hope that at any moment we can all be reborn.

When you give something up, you need to fill the space where it used to be, and you understand the landscape in yourself a bit more.

For lonely people, rain is a chance to be touched.

The love of a
man is like a drop of color into something clear.

That's truth, Harvey, not what's written on a piece of paper or in blood too small to see - but the memory of how it felt being together.

Every parent, no matter how cultured or sophisticated, will one day succumb to a child's pleas to visit Walt Disney World Resort.

He still is a little boy waiting for someone to love him.

Sometimes, language is the sound of longing

Everything you are
afraid of will never happen. It's the events you cannot
conceive of that happen.

Many things are hard, Danny. Life comes at you in pieces sometimes too big to avoid

She told me that love is when a person introduces you to yourself for the first time. After

Whether you know it or not, we leave parts of ourselves wherever we go.

Without memory, time would be no use to mankind,

To love again, you must not discard what has happened to you, but take from it the strength you'll need to carry on.

Lives are staged from within.

For those who are lost, there will always be cities that feel
like home.

You can't explain love" he said out loud. "That's how it gets ruined.

Dreams are the unfinished wings of our souls.

I wonder if things can happen too early or too late or if everything happens at exactly the right time. If so, how sad and beautiful.

There are times in life when language fails us, when everything that needs to be said can be expressed only by saying nothing at all.

Language is like drinking from one's own reflection in still water. We only take from it what we are at the time.

I think John Coltrane is one of the great American heroes, like Abraham Lincoln and Emily Dickinson.

Loneliness is like being the only person left alive in the
universe, except that everyone else is still here.

But war only ends for those who have not been in one.

I never want her to know that fatherhood was the ambition of my life.

Music helps us understand where we have come from but, more importantly, what has happened to us.

the body is nothing but camouflage.

The poet Emily Dickinson said that nature is a haunted house, while art is a house that tries to be haunted. She was born and died in the same room.

I wanted to explain that trusting is harder than being trusted.

He wanted to tell the baby that Paris was like a poem in stone.

Daddy, where's panda?" Gerard finds her stuffed panda and lays it next to her. She goes back to sleep immediately. In

Never admit you have obsessive-compulsive disorder to someone who doesn't have it because they'll think you're crazy. But

Without memory, he thought, man would be invincible

The damned would have to remain on earth in perpetual doubt. Once

Alzheimer's is like having your entire life written out in chalk and then washed over by the sea at every tide.

The key to a good life is to gently overlook the truth

Royal Young's writing is that rare blend of irony and beauty.

We cross from memory into imagination with only a vague awareness of change.

You may wonder why I haven't killed myself because living with madness or watching it flood the heart of someone we love is unbearable.

I tried to convey to the boy how people's lives are often altered by curved lines read slowly from paper, sand, or stone.

Writers are often alone when they work. Hours pass in silence as one long moment; light fades as day turns back to face the coming night.

I was always a writer, by which I mean I was always scribbling away, doing something with pen and paper.

Dreamers conquered the world long ago.

It is the afternoon of my birthday, but still the morning of my life.

Coincidences mean you're on the right path.

Death is the most sophisticated form of beauty, and the most difficult to accept.

Hands have their own language.

I think anyone can fall in love, if you're open and you're willing, but the real test is sustaining it after all the excitement has worn off.

It's tempting to imagine how we could hurt someone close, because it reminds us how fiercely we love them.

In the end I didn't know who I was crying for, but it was something my body wanted to do, as though trying to digest grief.

. . . truth is just a lie that everyone believes.

I want the sea to carry my unceasing love to their still bodies,

The very best and the very worst of life will come from [their] ability to love strangers.

Both my parents were very supportive of me in whatever I wanted to do.

Children are the closest we have to wisdom, and they become adults the moment that final drop of everything mysterious is strained from them.

Anyone who is desperate or alone will agree there is comfort in routine.

Perhaps he had been waiting all along for someone to knock him down and allow him to drop the weight he'd so faithfully carried.

The present grows within the boundaries of the past.

Death ends a life but not a relationship. I

Gerard feels stabbing love for his daughter.

Actually, years mean nothing. It's what's inside them.

Life just swallows you up, doesn't it?Just swallows you up with its everyday things

You were unsure which pain is worse
the shock of what happened or the ache for what never will.

We see in others what we want and what we fear.

We touched with a softness that pushed through the skin into memory, like arms plunged into a river - we could feel the weight of each other's stones.

Should you ever feel too lonely ... listen for the roar of the sea- for in it are all those who've been and all those who are to come.

Absence makes the heart grows fonder, doesn't it?

Grief is a room without doors - but somehow, with its tinsel and cliches, Christmas finds a way in.

I would give everything, even memory - especially memory - if I could hold Leo again. The weight of his absence is the weight of the entire world. I

The coat-check line is long enough to fall in love with the person behind you.

I want to do things for people they will never forget. Maybe that's the best thing I can do in life.

Every moment is the paradox of now or never.

The beauty of artifacts is in how they reassure us we're
not the first to die.

For some people, life is the process of knocking through walls to get out. For others, it is the building of walls.

Where are people going? I wonder what they hope will happen and what they are afraid of? For me it's the same thing and has to do with being loved.

I didn't know who she was, but I had this fire inside me for someone I knew existed.

I once saved someone from drowning.

Love between strangers takes only a few seconds and can last a whole life.

Language is like looking at a map of somewhere. Love is living there and surviving on the land.

I find hunger more interesting than accomplishment.

Life had called his name, and without thinking, he had stepped forward. He wondered if perhaps he was becoming the person he had always wanted to be.

I can't stop thinking that everybody is somebody's child.

night was like a horse that tore through the forest of memory. As

I want the sea to tell them I've found someone I want to marry and that I have to say good-bye -

Every day is a masterpiece, even if it crushes you.

When a person is loved, they are granted the strength of all seas.

Libraries are the ultimate restaurants for brain food. I sleep better knowing there are libraries. I would take a bullet for a librarian.

There are some lies that, under the right circumstances, are the only truth

When I'm doing something, I do work hard at it.

I like stories very much," the priest said. "They help me understand myself better.

Rain says everything we cannot say to one another. t is an ancient sound that willed all life into being, but fell so long upon nothing.

I think most people in the world are decent if they're not suffering.

Love is life but longer

Love requires imagination more than experience.

Love is also a violence, and cannot be undone.

The most significant conversations of our lives occur in silence.

I live in Rome where people sit by fountains and kiss. The sound of water is the sound of love rushing between them.