"It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are."

"To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting."

"Unbeing dead isn't being alive."

"For whatever we lose (like a you or a me), It's always our self we find in the sea."

"Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward."

"Whenever you think or you believe or you know, you're a lot of other people: but the moment you feel, you're nobody-but-yourself."

"I will take the sun in my mouth and leap into the ripe air Alive with closed eyes to dash against darkness"

"And it's you are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you"

"Lovers alone wear sunlight."

"Unless you love someone, nothing else makes sense."

"Yours is the light by which my spirit's born: - you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars."

"Listen: there’s a hell of a good universe next door; let’s go"

"I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance"

"I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes."

"The snow doesn't give a soft white damn whom it touches."

"The three saddest things are the ill wanting to be well, the poor wanting to be rich, and the constant traveler saying 'anywhere but here'."

"Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star..."

"May came home with a smooth round stone as small as a world and as large as alone."

"Life's not a paragraph And death i think is no parenthesis"

"Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit"

"The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful."

"I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more."

"I carry your heart with me(i carry it in my heart)"

"One's not half of two; two are halves of one."

"She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn't standing still"

"Most people are perfectly afraid of silence"

"Kisses are a better fate than wisdom."

"Twice I have lived forever in a smile"

"A wind has blown the rain away & the sky away & all the leaves away, & the trees stand. i think i, too, have known autumn too long."

"Time is a tree (this life one leaf) but love is the sky and i am for you just so long and long enough"

"And now you are and I am and we're a mystery which will never happen again."

"I do not know what it is about you that closes and opens;only something in me understands the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses"

"Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question."

"I love you much most beautiful darling more than anyone on the earth and I like you better than everything in the sky."

"Since the thing perhaps is to eat flowers and not to be afraid"

"Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink."

"When man determined to destroy himself he picked the was of shall and finding only why smashed it into because"

"Only by you my heart always moves."

"His lips drink water but his heart drinks wine"

"You have played, (I think) And broke the toys you were fondest of, And are a little tired now; Tired of things that break, and— Just tired. So am I."

"We can never be born enough."

"...remember one thing only: that it's you-nobody else-who determines your destiny and decides your fate. Nobody else can be alive for you; nor can you be alive for anybody else."

"I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart."

"Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination."

"Your head is a living forest full of songbirds."

"May I be I is the only prayer--not may I be great or good or beautiful or wise or strong."

"May my heart always be open to little birds who are the secrets of living"

"We are for each other: then laugh, leaning back in my arms for life's not a paragraph and death i think is no parenthesis"

"Love is the whole and more than all."

"Now the ears of my ears are awake and now the eyes of my eyes are opened."