To wander is to be alive.

Failure to shed tears is a failure to live life fully. And the one thing that life requires of us all is to live it. Never be embarrassed by your ability to be alive.

The word “travel” comes from the Old French word “travail” (or “travailler”), which means “to work, to labor; a suffering or painful effort, an arduous journey, a tormenting experience.” (“Travel,” thus, is “a painful and...

I finally know the difference between pleasing and loving, obeying and respecting. It has taken me so many years to be okay with being different, and with being this alive, this intense. (xxvi)

When you are born as a man, you live as a man. When you born as a woman however, you have two choices; to live like a slave, or as a woman. I love the...

I instinctively knew that he was dangerous, in the way that intensely alive people sometimes are.

You aren’t alive if you aren’t in need.

I am alive; which means that my dream is alive too. As long as I am alive and in my right senses, victory is the only thing that I will dare to settle for.

Just for the fact that you are still alive and in your right senses, your life isn’t as bad as you might think it is. So, always be grateful for every new day that you...

Man is the only creature for whom being alive isn’t enough.

Being alive is having what I want, that is my joy, my happiness.

It a great miracle that I am alive.

Wandering is the activity of the child, the passion of the genius; it is the discovery of the self, the discovery of the outside world, and the learning of how the self is both “at...