there are many romantic reasons

to watch the sunrise.

once it started,

it was hard to leave.

i wanted to own it.

i wanted it to be

a confirmation

that I was alive.

(most of the time, however, it felt condemning)

Stephanie Danler

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if you are interested in something,

no matter what it is,

go at it at full speed ahead...

lukewarm is no good.

hot is no good either.

white hot and passionate is the only thing to be.

Roald Dahl

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sometimes i can feel

my bones straining

under the weight of all

the lives

i'm not living

Jonathan Safran Foer

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Wishing not to have

so much as a speck of shame

toward heaven until the day I die,

I suffered, even when the wind stirred the leaves.

With my heart singing to the stars,

I shall love all things that are dying.

And I must walk the road

that has been given to me.

Tonight, again, the stars are

brushed by the wind.

Yun Dong-ju

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and the day came

when the risk to

remain tight in a bud

was more painful

than the risks it took

to blossom.

Elizabeth Appell

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the whole future lies in uncertainty:

live immediately.

Seneca