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.

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

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