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This theory holds that there is nothing more valuable than time to waste. The most interesting things are the ones tucked in the empty spaces to be discovered when dawdling, loitering, lying in bed. It’s the only part of the universe you can truly call your own.
“When you go on an adventure, just trust that you’ll meet who you need to meet and hear what you need to hear because the really important stuff, you just can’t plan.”
“Here’s to nothing,” he said. “That’s when anything can happen.”
“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.
For all our talk about living in the moment, what makes the present beautiful and complete is also imagining what we will do next.
there are four chambers in the human heart—so even if one belongs for eternity to someone missing, there is still room for love.
