When you're rotten about yourself, you become rotten to everyone else, even those
you love.

You have peace," the old woman said, "when you make it with yourself.

The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we are alone.

The little things, I can obey. The big things—how we think, what we value—those you must choose yourself. You can't let anyone—or any society—determine those for you.

There is everything you know and there is everything that happens. When the two do not line up, you make a choice.

..I buried myself in accomplishments, because with accomplishments, I believed I could control things, I could squeeze in every last piece of happiness before I got sick and died.. which I figured was my natural fate.