- this life was never ours. we were only ever borrowing it.
- no one ever thinks they’re awful, even people who really actually are. it’s some sort of survival mechanism.
- hell is the absence of the people you long for.
- a life, remembered, is a series of photographs and disconnected short films.
- this was actually the main difference between twenty-one and fifty-one, he decided, the sheer volume of regret.
- happiness comes from doing, helping, working, loving, fighting, conquering, from the exercise of functions; from self-activity.
- if grandma hadn't let grandpa win that race, we wouldn't be here. small things like that add up, into something greater than ourselves.
- people have never had a problem disposing of the past when it gets too difficult.
- what is it about intimacy that makes it so very disturbing?
- to be fully the thing that he was, and not a few stitched-together scraps.
- it is better to conquer our grief than to deceive it.
- i think it was jung who said that you don't write the story, the story writes you. or, you don't find the story, the story finds you.
- all you have to be is a human being. that’s success. when you’re a human being, life feels satisfying. everything adds up. every little thing matters. look at what you have. this is where it all begins. all you have to do is open your eyes.
aug 11 2021 ∞
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