“They are not your friend unless they have defended you in your absence.”

“To me, beauty is natural beauty. If you’re naturally yourself, you’re beautiful.”

Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.

“Live and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life.”

“We must understand that sadness is an ocean, and sometimes we drown, while other days we are forced to swim.”

“If you don’t know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.”

“The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it …”

“The moment we cry in a film is not when things are sad but when they turn out to be more beautiful than we expected them to be.”

“If you’re in the luckiest one percent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 percent.”

“That is what compassion does. It challenges our assumptions, our sense of self-limitation, worthlessness, of not having a place in the world, our feelings of loneliness and estrangement. These are narrow, constrictive states of mind. As we develop compassion, our hearts open.”

“Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself.”

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.