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If anything, the stars had crashed down around me, and the only way I’d get my life back together was if I picked them up, one by one, and placed them exactly where I needed them to be.
Your best friend is in there lonely and . . . devastated. You leave her, and you’ll regret it for the rest of your life.”
Love certainly comes with its risks, but the risk of living a life without love is far more dangerous.”
Without love, what is life?
start with loving yourself.”
We all have our younger selves inside of us, and we’re all fragile.
It’s the loneliness that seems to kill us.
“Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars and see yourself running with them.”
Coming to see me, that’s the greatest gift you could ever give.”
“Mingle the starlight with your lives and you won’t be fretted by trifles.” “Ah, I suppose I do remember that quote.” “What she’s going after is exactly why she became an astronomer in the first place, and why I have always impressed upon you and every other one of my students the importance of lifting one’s chin. It’s about experiencing awe, Carver. When you can put yourself in a state of awe, you see things for what they truly are. We’re lifted out of the fragile cage in which our tiny minds are often trapped.”
“Allowing yourself to be absorbed by the largeness of what’s out there will put you in a different state of mind.”
The part that . . . needs to lighten up and not take yourself so seriously. Quit trying to prove to yourself and everyone else that you matter. You’re still living like the entire world is judging you . . . waiting for you to fail.”
If we all had to wear cards showing a list of our missteps, we’d be less judgmental.
his voice did ignite some lovely feelings of what it had been like to have a best friend, someone who was always there for you.
he looked up to me and made me feel like I mattered, that my thoughts mattered.
Typically I loved a challenge.
I found a way.
“Best mom in the world. I know all dads probably say it, but it’s true. She makes everything seem okay, you know. I wake up and look over at her and feel like I’ve already made it. Like there’s nothing else I ever need. I could lie in bed all day looking at her. Until my boys come running in, of course. She’s taught me to be a better father, a better man.
‘There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is.’
What I haven’t told you enough is that you need to find someone and love them. When things get rocky, love them even harder.”
“You’re enough as you are.”
We’d figured out how to live with each other, but we never figured out how to love each other again.
