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To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that’s all. —Oscar Wilde
I wasted all those yesterdays and am completely out of tomorrows.
“anyone can have pretty eyes, but only the right kind of person can hum the alphabet and make it your new favorite beat.”
No matter how we choose to live, we both die at the end.
A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for. —John A. Shedd
I was raised to be honest, but the truth can be complicated. It doesn’t matter if the truth won’t make a mess, sometimes the words don’t come out until you’re alone. Even that’s not guaranteed. Sometimes the truth is a secret you’re keeping from yourself because living a lie is easier.
You shouldn’t donate to charity, help the elderly cross the street, or rescue puppies in the hopes you’ll be repaid later. I may not be able to cure cancer or end world hunger, but small kindnesses go a long way.
Yes, we live, or we’re given the chance to, at least, but sometimes living is hard and complicated because of fear.
It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live. —Marcus Aurelius, Roman emperor
“That love is a superpower we all have, but it’s not always a superpower I’d be able to control. Especially as I get older. Sometimes it’ll go crazy and I shouldn’t be scared if my power hits someone I’m not expecting it to.”
No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. —Steve Jobs
You may be born into a family, but you walk into friendships. Some you’ll discover you should put behind you. Others are worth every risk.
“People have their time stamps on how long you should know someone before earning the right to say it, but I wouldn’t lie to you no matter how little time we have. People waste time and wait for the right moment and we don’t have that luxury. If we had our entire lives ahead of us I bet you’d get tired of me telling you how much I love you because I’m positive that’s the path we were heading on. But because we’re about to die, I want to say it as many times as I want—I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you.”
