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.

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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

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

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