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"No matter where you go, there you are."
"Love isn’t a state of perfect caring. It is an active noun like struggle. To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is, right here and now."
"Nobody has ever measured, even poets, how much a heart can hold."
"When someone else's happiness is your happiness, that is love."
"We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are."
"Act without expectation."
"A ship in harbor is safe, but that's not what ships are built for."
"Never be limited by other people's limited imaginations."
"People can only meet you as deeply as they've met themselves."
"Be the love you never received."
"You cannot fix what you will not face."
"Let me fall, if I must fall.
The one I will become will catch me."
"What I regret most in my life are failures of kindness."
"Anyone who isn't embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn't learning enough."
"If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe."
"I've never seen any life transformation that didn't begin with the person in question finally getting tired of their own bullshit."
"The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it."
"First, they fascinate the fools. Then, they muzzle the intelligent."
"But we cannot simply sit and stare at our wounds forever."
"If something burns your soul with purpose and desire, it’s your duty to be reduced to ashes by it. Any other form of existence will be yet another dull book in the library of life."
"There isn't a way things should be. There's just what happens, and what we do."
"Nobody will ever take you serious in life, until they know that your yes is yes and your no is no."
"Do I contradict myself?
Very well then,
I contradict myself.
I am large,
I contain multitudes."
"Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything."
"When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change."
"To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you."
"If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth."
"Act as if until you are."
"If you care about what other people think, you will always be their prisoner."
"Never love anybody who treats you like you're ordinary."
"I don't want to believe. I want to know."
"A man with a watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never sure."
"I would like to spend my remaining days with someone that doesn't need me for anything, but that wants me for everything."
"Expectation is the root of all heartache."
"Above all, don't lie to yourself."
"If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets."
"You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness."
"We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same."
"Solitude is dangerous. It's very addictive. It becomes a habit after you realize how peaceful and calm it is. It's like you don't want to deal with people anymore because they drain your energy."
"There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly."
"When people are ready to, they change. They never do it before then, and sometimes they die before they get around to it. You can't make them change if they don't want to. Just like when they do want to, you can't stop them."
"Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change."
"The truth will set you free, but not until it is finished with you."
"Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress."
"Never be so focused on what you're looking for that you overlook the thing you actually find."
"Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way."
"The only thing that is ultimately real about your journey is the step that you are taking at this moment. That’s all there ever is."
"A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor."
"I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned."
"Listen. I wish I could tell you it gets better. But, it doesn't get better. You get better."
"The really sad thing about stupidity is that you can do absolutely nothing about it."
"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."
"The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are."
"If you want something you've never had, you must be willing to do something you've never done."
"Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching."
"No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted."
"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."
"Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate."
"The person who knows 'how' will have a job. The person who knows 'why' will be their boss."
"If you wanted to, you would."
"Those who cannot begin do not finish."
"It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew."
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man."
"How you do anything is how you do everything."
"How you spend your days is how you spend your life."
"The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places."
"Being brave enough to be alone frees you up to invite people into your life because you want them and not because you need them."
"No amount of evidence will ever persuade an idiot."
"Make yourself sheep and the wolves will eat you."
"Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist."
"It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop."
"What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence."
"Perception is reality."
"Whether you think you can, or you think you can't… you're right."
"Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who'll argue with you."
"We forge the chains we wear in life."
"It always seems impossible until it's done."
"It's only hopeless when you give up."
"In a time of deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act."
"If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything."
"Sunshine all the time makes a desert."
"If you really want to do something, you'll find a way. If you don't, you'll find an excuse."
"You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are, and change the ending."
"I crave a love so deep, the ocean would be jealous."
"The limit of my language is the limit of my understanding."
"My alone feels so good, I’ll only have you if you’re sweeter than my solitude."
"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take."
"No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character."
"You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic."
"Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles."
"Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer."
"The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself."
"The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it."
"There is no remedy for love, but to love more."
"Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born."
"Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck"
"We were together. I forget the rest."
"Love is so short, forgetting is so long."
"You can't do it unless you imagine it."
"Action is the foundational key to all success."
"We are our choices."
"I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain."
"The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men."
"I remember a psychiatrist once telling me that I gamble in order to escape the reality of life, and I told him that's why everyone does everything."
"If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking."
"Those who don't believe in magic will never find it."
"Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world."
"You don't need to see the whole staircase, just take the first step."
"You cannot use butterfly language to communicate with caterpillars."
"The best way out is always through."
"A wonderful gift may not be wrapped as you expect."
"I hope you do not let anyone else’s expectations direct the course of your life."
"How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours."
"If anyone is magically going to appear and just suddenly make your life better, just know that person is always gonna be you."
"I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone."
"The heart wants what it wants - or else it does not care."
"They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth."
"Things do not happen. Things are made to happen."
"If I had a flower for every time I thought of you... I could walk through my garden forever."
"I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude."
"Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame."
"The fact that so many successful politicians are such shameless liars is not only a reflection on them, it is also a reflection on us. When the people want the impossible, only liars can satisfy."
"Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will."
"If you can change your mind, you can change your life."
"It’s strange. I felt less lonely when I didn’t know you."
"Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do."
"A society that teaches conformity produces citizens who fear freedom."
"I have had recurring nightmares, that I was loved for who I am. And missed the opportunity, to be a better man."
"There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind."
"Saying nothing… sometimes says the most."
"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."
"Hang in there. It is astonishing how short a time it can take for very wonderful things to happen."
"Comparison is the thief of joy."
"To find yourself, think for yourself."
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it."
"Always make new mistakes."
"Love is a catastrophe. It's a crazy illness. Love ruins your life. But I am very sad when I am not in love."
"The most effective way to do it is to do it."
"You can't have it all at once."
"The worst distance between two people is misunderstanding."
"I've been fascinated by the idea that evil is the absence of empathy."
"Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness."
"If you were the main character in a movie of your life, what would the audience be screaming at you to do right now?"
"You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams."
"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored."
"Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty."
"The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion."
"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself — and you are the easiest person to fool."
"Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth."
"You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you."
"You must do the thing you think you cannot do."
"Nothing is more permanent than a temporary solution."
"If you find yourself in a hole… stop digging."
"If you get tired, learn to rest, not to quit."
"Find out where the line is drawn, and cross it deliberately."
"The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude."
"A mistake repeated more than once is a decision."
"The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn."
"The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails."
"Discipline is doing what you hate to do, but doing it like you love it."
"That’s the good thing about science: It’s true whether or not you believe in it. That’s why it works."
"I demolish my bridges behind me... then there is no choice but to move forward."
"If nothing saves us from death, at least love should save us from life."
"If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor."
"The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions."
"Things turn out best for the people who make the best out of the way things turn out."
"We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented."
"All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent."
"Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others’?"
"The electric light did not come from the continuous improvement of candles."
"You can tell how smart people are by what they laugh at."
"The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts while the stupid ones are full of confidence."
"We don't make mistakes; we have happy accidents."
"A bird sitting on a tree is never afraid of the branch breaking because its trust is not on the branch but on its own wings."
"Stop measuring days by degree of productivity and start experiencing them by degree of presence."
"First you must know what you want; then you must do everything you can to get it."
"Rock bottom will teach you lessons that mountain tops never will."
"If you want to know where your heart is, look to where your mind goes when it wanders."
"You may always have a second chance; for this thing we call failure is not the falling down, but the staying down."
"We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us."
"A lie has speed, but truth has endurance."
"What you do is more important than what you say."
"An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way."
"The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is."
"Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can."
"We are most alive when we are in love."
"Crawl inside this body, find me where I am most ruined – love me there."
"Those who cannot begin do not finish."
"Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it."
"When you know your worth, you don't waste time waiting for other people to affirm it for you."
"A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle."
"現場現物現実"
"Go to the actual place and see the actual thing and you shall learn the actual truth."
"A half truth is a whole lie."
"Who lies for you, will lie against you."
"The truth has no defense against a fool determined to believe a lie."
"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."
"Every storm runs out of rain."
"If you find yourself arguing with an idiot... you've lost!"
"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."
"The things you own end up owning you. It's only after you lose everything that you're free to do anything."
"The reward for conformity is that everyone likes you but yourself."
"Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence."
"Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly."
"Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly."
"Don't surrender all your joy for an idea you used to have about yourself that isn't true anymore."
"The problem is, we look for someone to grow old together, while the secret is to find someone to stay a child with."
"If you do not take an interest in the affairs of your government, then you are doomed to live under the rule of fools."
"Creative people need time to just sit around and do nothing."
"It’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they’ve been fooled."
"When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."
"You must be the change you want to see in the world."
"The one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is certain or unchangeable."
"Everything in moderation... including moderation."
"To whom much is given, much is expected."
"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
"The most expensive thing you will ever do is spend time with the wrong people."
"Only those who risk going too far, can find out how far one can go."
"Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent."
"It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important."
"It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies, but even more to stand up to your friends."
"You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks."
"The future ain't what it used to be."
"Tell me what company thou keepest, and I'll tell thee what thou art."
"It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves."
"Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen."
"The truth cares about no one."
"There is no way to happiness; happiness is the way."
"Assumptions are the termites of relationships."
"When the king is a liar, truth becomes treason."
"To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved."
"If you hit a wrong note, the next note determines if it’s good or bad."
"Seduce my mind and you can have my body."
"We owe almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed, but to those who have differed."
"When cattle go into a palace, they don’t become the king, but the palace becomes a barn."
"Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist."
"When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn't become a king. The palace becomes a circus."
"The child who is not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel its warmth."
"I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail."
"Quiet people have the loudest minds."
"I worshipped the myth I made of you, but I'm off my knees now."
"They don't think it be like it is, but it do."
"Never ask a barber if you need a haircut."
"Less but better."
"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."
"I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time."
"Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."
"Never interrupt your opponent while he is in the middle of making a mistake."
"If it's wrong when they do it, it's wrong when we do it."
"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds."
"If you're not willing to learn, no one can help you. If you're determined to learn, no one can stop you."
"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people."
"The magic you are looking for is in the work you're avoiding."
"One of the greatest regrets in life is being what others would want you to be, rather than being yourself."
"When you arrive at a fork in the road, take it."
"You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from."
"An evil enemy will burn his own nation to the ground to rule over the ashes."
"You can tell a lot about someone by the people he or she admires."
"Much can be accomplished by teamwork when no one is concerned about who gets credit."
"If you would attain greatness, think no little thoughts."
"Art is the highest form of hope."
"The behavior of some creatures is irrepressible, no matter how they are treated and no matter what the consequences."
"The best things in life are free; the second best are very expensive."
"Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends, fads and popular opinion."
"Mediocrity is excellent to the eyes of mediocre people."
"Say what you want and be who you are because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind."
"Each of us is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts."
"Always do what you are afraid to do."
"It is never too late to be what you might have been."
"Birds born in cages think flying is an illness."
"And in the end, the love you take, is equal to the love you make."
"Chemistry between people is the strangest science of all."
"I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you."
"If you marry a woman who cheated on her husband, you're married to a woman who cheats on her husband."
"You can observe a lot, just by watching."
"It's better to live one day as a lion, than a thousand years as a lamb."
"The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them."
"To every action there is an equal and opposite reaction."
"When a person can't find a deep sense of meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure."
"A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be."
"Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness."
"One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we've been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We're no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It's simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we've been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back."
"Take your broken heart, make it into art."
"Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids."
"See failure as a beginning."
"Secrets have a cost; they're not free. Not now, not ever."
"We will encourage you to develop the three great virtues of a programmer: laziness, impatience, and hubris."
"If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's."
"Live life like you're gonna die. Because you're gonna."
"Life finds a way."
"I saw that you were perfect, and so I loved you. Then I saw that you were not perfect and I loved you even more."
"I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship."
"You've got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there."
"You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have."
"Have no fear of perfection – you'll never reach it"
"Science works! Planes fly. Cars drive. Computers compute. If you base medicine on science, you cure people. If you base the design of planes on science, they fly. If you base the design of rockets on science, they reach the moon. Science works... bitches."
"There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."
"Profanity is the verbal crutch of the ignorant mother fucker."
"Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible."
"I realize I use the word 'fuck' a lot, and I'd apologize for that, but I don't give a shit."
"…I see that the elementary laws never apologize."
"Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know."
"I don't hate people. I just feel better when they aren't around."
"Our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society."
"One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them."
"It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else."
"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage."
"When you can't look on the bright side, I will sit with you in the dark."
"The reward for a thing well done is to have done it."
"The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter."
"You have to be odd to be number one."
"Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. The grave will supply plenty of time for silence."
"The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed."
"Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty."
"The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any."
"I can only connect deeply or not at all."
"You are so brave and quiet I forget you are suffering."
"Whosoever is delighted in solitude, is either a wild beast or a god."
"You are under no obligation to be the same person you were five minutes ago."
"I am rarely bored alone; I am often bored in groups and crowds."
"Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion."
"When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent."
"The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant."
"Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups."
"To live alone is the fate of all great souls."
"Even when you heal, you’re never what you were before."
"You have to die a few times before you can really live."
"People think being alone makes you lonely, but I don't think that's true. Being surrounded by the wrong people is the loneliest thing in the world."
"We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever."
"There is no trap so deadly as the trap you set for yourself."
"Don't wait. The time will never be just right."
"When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time."
"Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things."
"We seldom think of what we have but always of what we lack. Therefore, rather than grateful, we are bitter."
"Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working."
"I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring."
"Endeavor to persevere."
"Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind."
"Inspiration is for amateurs — the rest of us just show up and get to work."
"Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering."
"It takes nothing to join the crowd. It takes everything to stand alone."
"The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed."
"Normality is a paved road; it's comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow."
"Do not whine… Do not complain. Work harder. Spend more time alone."
"There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing."
"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."
"The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek."
"Anyone who falls in love is searching for the missing pieces of themselves."
"Without great solitude no serious work is possible."
"Most of us are genuinely unaware that it is possible to change our minds."
"Fall down seven times; get up eight."
"You are never destroyed by anyone except yourself."
"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on."
"The moment of waking is an incredible opportunity, and it's quite a tragedy if you go straight to your to-do list."
"What you are afraid to do is a clear indication of the next thing you need to do."
"Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time."
"Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?"
"The forest was shrinking but the trees kept voting for the axe, for the axe was clever and convinced the trees that because his handle was made of wood he was one of them."
"The best thing to hold onto in life is each other."
"Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time."
"The desire to be loved is the last illusion. Give it up and you will be free."
"It is never overreacting to ask for what you want and need."
"If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough."
"I am not like other people.
I am burning in hell.
The hell of myself."
"Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent."
"You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore."
"Everything you've ever wanted is on the other side of fear."
"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards."
"It's hard to imagine a more extraordinary claim than that some hidden intelligence created a universe of more than a hundred billion galaxies, each containing more than a hundred billion stars, and then waited more than 13.7 billion years until a planet in a remote corner of a single galaxy evolved an atmosphere sufficiently oxygenated to support life, only to then reveal his existence to an assortment of violent tribal groups before disappearing again."
"I don’t know what word in the English language – I can’t find one – that applies to people who are willing to sacrifice the literal existence of organised human life, not in the distant future, so they can put a few more dollars into highly overstuffed pockets. The word ‘evil’ doesn’t begin to approach it."
"Historians have a word for Germans who joined the Nazi party, not because they hated Jews, but out of a hope for restored patriotism, or a sense of economic anxiety, or a hope to preserve their religious values, or dislike of their opponents, or raw political opportunism, or convenience, or ignorance, or greed. That word is 'Nazi'. Nobody cares about their motives anymore. They joined what they joined. They lent their support and their moral approval. And, in so doing, they bound themselves to everything that came after. Who cares any more what particular knot they used in the binding?"
"When you grow up you tend to get told that the world is the way it is and your life is just to live your life inside the world. Try not to bash into the walls too much. Try to have a nice family life, have fun, save a little money. That's a very limited life. Life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact: Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you. And you can change it, you can influence it… Once you learn that, you'll never be the same again."
"If you’re going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don’t even start. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives and maybe even your mind. It could mean not eating for three or four days. It could mean freezing on a park bench. It could mean jail. It could mean derision. It could mean mockery–isolation. Isolation is the gift. All the others are a test of your endurance, of how much you really want to do it. And, you’ll do it, despite rejection and the worst odds. And it will be better than anything else you can imagine. If you’re going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that. You will be alone with the gods, and the nights will flame with fire. You will ride life straight to perfect laughter. It’s the only good fight there is."
"My dear,
Find what you love and let it kill you.
Let it drain you of your all. Let it cling onto your back and weigh you down into eventual nothingness.
Let it kill you and let it devour your remains.
For all things will kill you, both slowly and fastly, but it’s much better to be killed by a lover."
