“It doesn't matter what you expected, but you must accept what reality offers to you at the end.”

““You want me to tell you why reality is the way it is,” Seethwright said. “But there is no explanation for that. You must simply learn to fit your preconceptions to what you find. You must not expect reality to adapt itself to you, except very infrequently.”

“It doesn't matter what it is that leaves a hole inside you. It just matters that it’s there.”

“What you feel doesn’t matter in the end; it’s what you do that makes you brave.”

“Everyone knew that if you divided reality by expectation, you got a happiness quotient. But when you invert the equation - expectation divided by reality - you didn't get the opposite of happiness. What you got, Lewis realized, was hope.”

“In the end that was the choice you made, and it doesn't matter how hard it was to make it. It matters that you did.”

“It doesn't matter how much you think and wish, doing is what matters.”

“It's all right. It doesn't matter what you do. We're dreaming, you know.”

“It doesn't matter who you are or what you look like so long as somebody loves you.”

“It doesn't matter what people tell you. It doesn't matter what they might say. Sometimes you have to leave home. Sometimes, running away means you're headed in the exact right direction.”