Nada é definitivo. Tudo muda tudo se move, tudo gira, tudo voa e desaparece.

Pés, para que os quero, se tenho asas para voar.

Isolar-se no próprio sofrimento é permitir que ele destrua o interior.

No dia a dia suporto muito mais do que imagino.

Cada tic-tac é mais um segundo da vida que passou. Fugiu e não voltará. E já que a vida é intensa e com tantos interesses, o problema é descobrir como vivê-la.

O que não me mata me alimenta.

Não creio que as margens de um rio sofram por deixá-lo correr.

A beleza e a feiura são miragens. Através delas os outros podem ver o nosso interior.

Escolha uma pessoa que olhe você com magia.

Se eu pudesse lhe dar alguma coisa na vida, eu lhe daria a capacidade de ver a si mesmo através dos meus olhos. Só então você perceberia como é especial para mim.

Eu sou a desintegração.

Amuralhar o próprio sofrimento é arriscar que ele te devore a partir do teu interior.

Bebia para afogar as mágoas, mas as malditas aprenderam a nadar.

Pinto a mim mesma porque sou sozinha e porque sou o assunto que conheço melhor.

Agora, vivo num planeta dolorido, transparente como o gelo. É como se houvesse aprendido tudo de uma vez, numa questão de segundos. Minhas amigas e colegas tornaram-se mulheres lentamente. Eu envelheci em instantes e agora tudo está embotado e plano. Sei que não há nada escondido; se houvesse, eu veria.

(E o que mais dói) é viver num corpo que é o sepulcro que nos aprisiona (segundo Platão), do mesmo modo como a concha aprisiona a ostra.

Espero que a partida seja feliz e espero nunca mais voltar.

Se existe vida após a morte, não me esperem, porque eu não vou.

Diego, houve dois grandes acidentes na minha vida: o bonde e você. Você, sem dúvida, foi o pior deles.

Pensaram que eu era surrealista, mas nunca fui. Nunca pintei sonhos, só pintei a minha própria realidade.

If you want to conquer fear dont sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

It was extremely hard going from being a parent of one to a parent of three, because now all these instant decisions have to be made about how you balance out the time and attention between them.

When people ask what I'd like to do next, the answer is usually, 'Something with people in rooms.'

Reading reviews makes you thin-skinned. It's like waves washing layers off your skin.

The Nobel Prize is run by a self-perpetuated committee. They vote for themselves and get the world's publishing industry to jump to their tune.

I just loved and love life. I love it today.

I remember when I saw 'X-Men' the first time, I was living in England as an exchange student, and my first boyfriend, who's an Englishman, made me watch the movie... He was very jealous that I liked Hugh Jackman so much.

Did we not all grow up saying we had to have four glasses of whole milk a day for healthy bones? It's ridiculous. It's liquid cholesterol.

We're going to be human, and we are going to make mistakes, but you really should understand the power that you have and embrace it in a positive way.

I spend my nights just sitting and reading a book and drinking my tea and walking my dog. That's about as exciting as my life gets.

The question of Heaven, the question of what happens after death, is one which a lot of people in our culture try to put off as long as they can, but sooner or later it suddenly swings round and looks them in the eye.

My goal is not to be better than anyone else..but to be better that I used to be.

If knowing that someone really cares helps healing along its way then I hope you now feel better and keep improving day by day.

Some of us are busy doing things some of us are busy complaining.

Anytime you suffer a setback or disappointment, put your head down and plow ahead.

Therefore the elect shall go forth... to see the torments of the impious, seeing which they will not be grieved, but will be satiated with joy at the sight of the unutterable calamity of the impious.

One of the things that strikes me is so many of the critics are people whose lifestyle doesn't change when the price of fuel changes, or if they keep a Wal-Mart store out of their area.

I have only ever read one book in my life, and that is White Fang. It's so frightfully good I've never bothered to read another.

'Mrs. Doubtfire' is still a fun movie, and it's still fun to watch, but it is hard to watch myself sometimes. I get very critical. And people will say, 'Mara, you were five.' And I'm like, 'Yeah, but I still should have known better!' I'm a lifelong perfectionist, what can I say?

I'm immensely grateful for the precious gift my mother has given me. She is my hero today and every day.

When I look back, I don't have regrets. In the moment I am really, really hard on myself, I'm definitely my own worst critic and can be my own worst enemy, and I'm trying very hard not to be that.

In high school, I loved history. I also loved cosmography, algebra. Mexico is so rich in culture and history, and I have always enjoyed that.

All rationalism tends to minimalise the value and the importance of life and to decrease the sum total of human happiness.

If God is just, I tremble for my country.