Words worth keeping

Imagine smiling after a slap in the face. Then think of doing it twenty-four hours a day.

You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?

Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.

The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.

When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.

How did it get so late so soon?

I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason. I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go. Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.

I can resist anything except temptation.

Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I'd have the facts.

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed and that necessary.

Maybe you can afford to wait. Maybe for you there's a tomorrow. Maybe for you there's one thousand tomorrows, or three thousand, or ten, so much time you can bathe in it, roll around it, let it slide like coins through you fingers. So much time you can waste it.But for some of us there's only today. And the truth is, you never really know.

Don't stop there. I suppose there are also, what, vampires and werewolves and zombies?""Of course there are. Although you mostly find zombies farther south, where the voudun priests are.""What about mummies? Do they only hang around Egypt?""Don't be ridiculous. No one believes in mummies.

Even death has a heart.