Gabriell

“It is strange this life, for the things we are scared of, we find no longer scare us with time. It's like when you run and run and then after a long time, you look over your shoulder and find there is no one chasing you. You wonder what it was you have been running away from all this time. Many of our fears are but imagined ones bearing little resemblance to what is real. How much better our lives would have been had we known this while we were still young. How much more wisely we would have acted.”
― Arlene J. Chai, The Last Time I Saw Mother

“It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all—in which case, you fail by default.”
― J.K. Rowling

“From this one may see that there is no reason to pity old people. Instead, young people should envy them. It is true that the old have no opportunities, no possibilities in the future. But they have more than that. Instead of possibilities in the future, they have realities in the past - the potentialities they have actualized, the meanings they have fulfilled, the values they have realized - and nothing and nobody can ever remove these assets from the past.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

“My solitude doesn’t depend on the presence or absence of people; on the contrary, I hate who steals my solitude without, in exchange, offering me true company.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche