1,395 Quotes by David Levithan

Do not just seek happiness for yourself. Seek happiness for all. Through kindness. Through mercy.

People are rarely as attractive in reality as they are in the eyes of the people who are in love with them. Which is, I suppose, as it should be.

Kindness connects to who you are, while niceness connects to how you want to be seen.

Part of growing up is making sure your sense of reality isn't entirely grounded in your own mind.

I never felt the urge to jump off a bridge, but there are times I have wanted to jump out of my life, out of my skin.

The moment you fall in love feels like it has centuries behind it, generations - all of them rearranging themselves so this precise, remarkable intersection could happen. In your heart, in your bones, no matter how silly you know it is, you feel that everything has been leading to this, all the secret arrows were pointing here, the universe and time itself crafted this long ago, and you are just now realizing it, you are just now arriving at the place you were always meant to be.

You have to believe there are kisses and laughs and risks worth taking.

And maybe it is only by finding yourself that you can feel the true intensity of becoming close to another person.

This is the thing they don't tell you about being a third wheel - it's not like you're the wheel that's added on. You were one of the original two wheels, but suddenly you're not so important anymore. The relationship drives fine without you.