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People are always trying to get something for nothing. But that’s just theft. If you’ve gained something, it means that someone, somewhere, has lost something. Even happiness is built on someone else’s misfortune. She often reminded me of this. In fact, she considered it one of the laws of the universe.
If only …
I must have a whole collection of small injuries, tucked away somewhere in the recesses of my memory. I suppose those are what some people call regrets.
guess it’s the same with life. We all know it has to end someday, but even so, we act as if we’re going to live forever. Like love, life is beautiful because it must come to an end.
“In order to gain something, you have to lose something.” That’s what Mom always said.
All the joy, anger, and sorrow I’ve been through, the result of which would be nothing more than a blank screen.
If my life were a movie, I’d want it to be memorable in some way, no matter how modest the production was.
Human beings exchanged their freedom for the sense of security
Cats don’t need us. It’s us who needs them.
You don’t have a family. You make a family.
I sighed and thought that this was what life was really all about: warmth and comfort.
For me, cats are no different from the sun or the ocean or the air we breathe.
People are fickle that way. Something they once valued becomes meaningless almost overnight.
What would the differences be between the world in which I existed (however briefly) and a different world where almost everything is exactly the same, except in this parallel universe I never existed?
