"In the end
these things matter most:
How well did you love?
How fully did you live?
How deeply did you let go?"
— Siddhārtha Gautama

"To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation."
— Yann Martel (Life of Pi)

"When you've suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and trifling."
— Yann Martel (Life of Pi: A novel)

"The world isn't just the way it is. It is how we understand it, no? And in understanding something, we bring something to it, no?
Doesn't that make life a story?"
— Yann Martel (Life of Pi)

"Dare I say I miss him? I do. I miss him. I still see him in my dreams. They are nightmares mostly, but nightmares tinged with love. Such is the strangeness of the human heart."
— Yann Martel (Life of Pi)

"what we think, we become"
— Siddhārtha Gautama

"You only lose what you cling to."
— Siddhārtha Gautama

"Do not look for a sanctuary in anyone except your self."
— Siddhārtha Gautama

"I can think. I can wait. I can fast."
— Hermann Hesse (Siddhartha)

"Nothing ever exists entirely alone; everything is in relation to everything else."
— Siddhārtha Gautama

"If you stumble at mere believability, what are you living for? Isn't love hard to believe?"
— Yann Martel, Life of Pi