Lars Toomre

You can’t measure time by days, the way you measure money by dollars and cents, because dollars are all the same while every day is different and maybe every hour as well.

I was assailed by memories of a life that wasn’t mine anymore, but one in which I’d found the simplest and most lasting joys.

Love is how you stay alive, even after you are gone.

Recognize that to be happy, you must live the life that you truly want to live. It's your life and you are the only one who can truly determine what is right for you.

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them.

Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them.

Creativity — like human life itself — begins in darkness.

Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Someday we'll look back on this moment and plow into a parked car.

Definition of word Free: not determined by anything beyond its own nature or being.

The human brain is unique in that it is the only container of which it can be said that the more you put into it, the more it will hold.

Morning Pages remind me that while I cannot choose much of what happens to me in my life, I can choose how I respond to what happens. The trick is getting small enough to inch forward. The past is huge. The future may be huge as well. What remains for me, what is given, is to do the small tasks of the day. First among those taks is Morning Pages, the daily writing of three pages that draws me into the life I have now, the choices I can make today to find beauty in what is given to me.

Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman.

Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself — and thus make yourself indispensable.

The governors of the world believe, and have always believed, that virtue can only be taught by teaching falsehood, and that any man who knew the truth would be wicked. I disbelieve this, absolutely and entirely. I believe that love of truth is the basis of all real virtue, and that virtues based upon lies can only do harm.

You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

The exception which proves the rule.

I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it.