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because in grief we are reminded that we’re human beings.
Being a parent is so strange, all our children’s pain belongs to us, but so does their joy.
The brain is so peculiar, the things that get stuck in it.
Ted read out some of his favorites: Spider-Man’s “With great power comes great responsibility.” The Flash’s “Life doesn’t give us purpose. We give life purpose.” Wonder Woman’s “Which will hold greater rule over you? Your fear or your curiosity?”
Iron Man’s “Heroes are made by the paths they choose.”
“If there is nothing but what we make in this world, brothers, let us make good.”
Love is chaos.
“Art is coincidence, love is chaos,” Ted says.
You can be whatever you want to in life, as long as you don’t become a critic! Not of other people, and not of yourself.
The most dangerous place on earth is inside us.
“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
The world is full of miracles, but none greater than how far a young person can be carried by someone else’s belief in them.
But I think you’ve both given each other the same amount: everything you had.”
“It’s art that helps me cope. Because art is a fragile magic, just like love, and that’s humanity’s only defense against death. That we create and paint and dance and fall in love, that’s our rebellion against eternity. Everything beautiful is a shield. Vincent van Gogh wrote: ‘I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.’ ”
