They’re like chef’s salads, with good things and bad things chopped and mixed together in a vinaigrette of confusion and conflict.” –Lemony Snicket, The Grim Grotto God knows that’s what everyone else does.” – John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

And if the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it. There was time before organisms experienced consciousness, and there will be time after. Maybe that time is coming soon and maybe it is millions of years away, but even if we survive the collapse of our sun, we will not survive forever. Everything that we did and built and wrote and thought and discovered will be forgotten and all of this will have been for naught. There will be no one left to remember Aristotle or Cleopatra, let alone you. There will come a time when there are no human beings remaining to remember that anyone ever existed or that our species ever did anything. There will come a time when all of us are dead. Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could.” – Louise Erdrich, The Painted Drum 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.

Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what’s going to happen next.ġ80+ Inspirational Friday Quotes and Sayings

Now I’ve learned, the hard way, that some poems don’t rhyme, and some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.” – Mark Twain The fear of death follows from the fear of life.

Do not be afraid of making mistakes, for there is no other way of learning how to live! Alfred Adler Life is just the same as learning to swim. To keep your balance, you must keep moving. The more experiments you make the better. Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Without the rain there would be no rainbow. Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile. Life is a journey full of twists and turns, ups and downs, moments of joy, and challenges that test our resilience.

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