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“The world is a small place, and the currents can carry anyone anywhere.”
“Something my father always told me was that the trick to success is to know when you have enough and stop and appreciate it.”
“Almost anything you do will be insignificant, but you must do it . . . We do these things not to change the world, but so that the world will not change us.”
We have this one life. But all the roads not taken, all those other lives we might have lived, are a part of it too. Yearning—that terrible, beautiful gaping yawn of want for a person, a place, a chance, a change, or something we can’t name—leaves craters, spaces for us to hold more of life. Saudade might be a strictly Portuguese word, but aching want is a universal condition.
For all our talk about living in the moment, what makes the present beautiful and complete is also imagining what we will do next.
