Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness.
Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could.

#769

When we are young, the words are scattered all around us. As they are assembled by experience, so also are we, sentence by sentence, until the story takes shape.

#768

Guy de Maupassant • Anna Eleanor Roosevelt • Voltaire • Henry David Thoreau • Friedrich Nietzsche • Mike Monteiro • Confucius • Kurt D. Cobain • Zig Ziglar • Steven Wright • Albert Einstein • anonymous • Martin Luther King Jr. • Marshall McLuhan • Theodor Seuss Geisel • Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra • Elwyn Brooks "E. B." White • John Maeda • Kahlil Gibran • Pablo Picasso • Rabindranath Tagore • Winston Churchill • Deepak Chopra • Toni Morrison

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