The happiest people aren’t necessarily the most successful, or the most popular, or the most talented. They’re the ones who are interested in the people around them.

Life should be a risk. It’s more than a straight line that you can see clearly from one point to the other. It dips and curves and you never know what’s around the bend sometimes...

I rolled my eyes. “He’s talking to himself. My vote is he’s crazy.” He thought about this. “Maybe he’s normal and we’re the crazy ones. Maybe everyone should talk to themselves. Maybe we’re all just...

I have more online contacts than I can count. I make about one hundred connections a day. I have access to millions of people. I use to think that I had friends in these numbers....

Some people say home is where you come from. But I think it’s a place you need to find, like it’s scattered and you pick pieces of it up along the way.

Thoughts are circular, they don’t take you anywhere. They don’t have feet-they can’t gain any ground. They can trap you if you don’t eventually stand up and make a move.

I’m inlove with him. Completely. Absolutely. Tragically.

He was like a book, where each chapter picks up pace until you can’t put it down. That’s when you know you’ve made a friend – when you want to read more of his story.

When you agree to help one person, you ultimately have to disappoint someone else; it’s like a karmic law.

Some people try to tell you the things you want in life are out of your grasp, while others lift you up on their shoulders and help you reach them. I may not know a...

Things never happen the way you plan. Take it a second at a time. Stay in the moment. It’s the only way to control it. Your thoughts can paralyze you. They make you second-guess and...

Oh, I just think that a neat house is the sign of a boring person, that’s all. And I don’t really like to associate with boring people if I can help it.

It’s ironic..here is life passing, like clouds drifting over the sky, yet they don’t see what’s in front of them. They believe there is something more substantial going on in that little screen in their...

it’s good for you to write down your thoughts. It’stherapeutic because it forces you to slow down and think aboutlife.

But how can you be there for someone who doesn’t need you? It’s like trying to scale a wall without anyone on the top throwing you a rope. You just keep sliding down and eventually...

You’re not saving lives, Dad. You can’t save lives when no one’s living anymore. (Maddie)

It’s like looking through a microscope your whole life,” he (Justin) said. “You miss the whole picture. Sometimes you need to get lost in order to discover anything.

I want people to have permission to know me, not unlimited constant access to me.

Life is about mindfulness. It’s about being in the moment, being aware.

…don’t be afraid to fall. Your wings will catch you.

I’d rather fail miserably pursuing my dreams than succeed at something I have to settle for

If you never leave where you come from, I don’t think you’ll ever figure out who you are, because how much is forced on you? How much of your personality is imposed instead of created?...

Maybe he’s normal and we’re the crazy ones. Maybe everyone should talk to themselves. Maybe we’re all just afraid of what we’d say.

By the way, the other reason I agreed to help you is because I love your eyes. You have the most beautiful eyes. It’s my weakness.

If you have confidence, if you believe in yourself, you can go anywhere.

But I’m learning it’s human nature to want the things you can’t have. What changes is how you go about pursuing the things you want. When you’re a little kid and you’re told no, you...

What a forced lifestyle our technology, our inventions imposed on our lives when we tried to live synonymously with computers; when we stepped inside their world, we left the natural one behind.

I think falling in love should come with a warning label: CAUTION—side effects may include breaking up, accompanied by heartache, severe mood swings, withdrawal from people and life itself, wasted hours obsessing over bitter reflections,...

Letting go is easy. Anyone can do that. Love is fighting for someone to stay. That’s what takes work.

But pain’s like water. It finds a way to push through any seal. There’s no way to stop it. Sometimes you have to let yourself sink inside of it before you can learn how to...

You need to be able to fill that space on your own, Maddie. You should never have to rely on another person to make you feel whole. That life is dangerous.

Maybe it takes tragedy to create paradise.

You are the strangest girl I’ve ever met,” he said, like he thought I was joking. He picked up his water bottle and gave me a sideways glance. “Have you ever kissed anybody?” he asked,...

It still hurts, but life is supposed to hurt. Too many people think life is supposed to be easy and perfect all the time. But there is always some hurt. It’s part of being alive....

Don’t worry about hurting me, if that’s what you’re afraid of. I want to get hurt. At least I´ll feel something for a change.

I realized how hard it that must have been, how much hurt when you know the only way to help someone is to give him distance. So I let him go.

All you need is one safe anchor to keep you grounded when the rest of your life spins out of control