Life was fragile and love was, too. At any moment, even our happiest ones, our world could shatter and we wouldn’t see it coming. There was only more loss ahead, showing its ugly face when...

Everything we come across becomes a part of us. It doesn’t matter how small or insignificant it is…or how devastating. One story here, one story there, that’s what I see when I look back at...

In another 2,400 years, even Socrates, the most well-known genius of the century, might be forgotten. The future will erase everything–there’s no level of fame or genius that allows you to transcend oblivion. The infinite...

The only thing that feels worse than being stuck in a situation that makes you unhappy is realizing that you are not ready or willing to change whatever it is.

I was terrified as only grown men and women can be when they wake in the middle of the night and begin to realize, in the absolute silence and solitude all around them, that it...

I could not but wonder at the queen’s unprecedented civility, until I realized with a flush of shame that it was my own improved behavior that motivated hers. So it is that we in life...

He was too perfect, despite being one of the most imperfect people I knew.

In trying so hard to win, we have instead become exactly like those whom we hate. The key is to know that there is no need to exert an effort to win; for we were...

I realized I’m in love. It’s always been right in front of me.

I have lost patience with the idea of an insignificant human being standing up above the rest of us–whether he is called Reverend or Doctor or Judge–and shouting at us all about this thing or...

You may be the man of my dreams that accidentally manifested in the wrong form. Forever to be my unrequited.

The thing was, the places of your life, like the clothes you wore and the car you drove and the friends and associates you had, were a product of the way you lived.

I didn’t leave right away. I stayed in the woods. I heard the faint voices of other people. I felt the cold against my skin. But mostly, I was aware of my own heavy breathing,...

You live your life without realizing these things until you take yourself away from the usual stuff, even for a brief moment…only then do you see your life in a different perspective.

One of life’s challenging realizations is that sometimes you outgrow your friends.

Change rarely happens in doses large enough to choke you. Everyday you swallow a little more and expect a little less.

But for a long time, and probably far too long, I had a secret wish: the adolescently romantic idea that there was someone out there for me; someone I hadn’t met yet who would ask...

I remembered reading somewhere that if you smile at something, it automatically makes you happier.