Aquele Trecho

I know how syrupy this sounds, how dull, provincial, and possibly whitewashed, but what can I do? Happy childhoods happen . Em Belong to Me: A Novel .

Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

I think if I've learned anything about friendship, it's to hang in, stay connected, fight for them, and let them fight for you. Don't walk away, don't be distracted, don't be too busy or tired, don't take them for granted. Friends are part of the glue that holds life and faith together. Powerful stuff .

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand . The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares . Em The Road to Daybreak

ESPERE O MELHOR, PREPARE-SE PARA O PIOR E APROVEITE O QUE VIER.

SÓ EXISTE UM ÊXITO: A CAPACIDADE DE LEVAR A VIDA QUE SE QUER.

Right now I want a word that describes the feeling that you get—a cold sick feeling, deep down inside—when you know something is happening that will change you, and you don’t want it to, but you can’t stop it. And you know, for the first time, for the very first time, that there will now be a before and an after, a was and a will be. And that you will never again quite be the same person you were. Em A Northern Light De Thresca

I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together .

Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

And then I felt sad because I realized that once people are broken in certain ways, they can’t ever be fixed, and this is something nobody ever tells you when you are young and it never fails to surprise you as you grow older as you see the people in your life break one by one. You wonder when your turn is going to be, or if it’s already happened.

O homem de sucesso é o que viveu bem, riu muitas vezes e amou bastante; que conquistou o respeito dos homens inteligentes e o amor das crianças; que galgou uma posição respeitada e cumpriu suas tarefas; que deixou este mundo melhor do que encontrou, ao contribuir com uma flor mais bonita, um poema perfeito ou uma alma resgatada; que jamais deixou de apreciar a beleza do mundo ou falhou em expressá-la; que buscou o melhor nos outros e deu o melhor de si.

By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning.

You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.

As maiores mudanças do mundo são realizadas lenta e gradativamente, sem erupções ou revoluções. O mesmo acontece com a vida espiritual de cada um.

Procuro um momento que dure uma vida.

And the wild regrets, and the bloody sweats, None knew so well as I: For he who live more lives than one More deaths than one must die.

Trata de saborear a vida; e fica sabendo, que a pior filosofia é a do choramingas que se deita à margem do rio para o fim de lastimar o curso incessante das águas. O ofício delas é não parar nunca; acomoda-te com a lei, e trata de aproveitá-la.

Leonard asks me if there's anything I need to know before he dies, I think about it for a minute, turn to him, say: what's the meaning of life, Leonard? He laughs, says: that's an easy one, my son, it's whatever you want it to be. Em My Friend Leonard .