Felipe Lopes

“Life is just a short walk from the cradle to the grave, and it sure behooves us to be kind to one another along the way.”
― Alice Childress

“All your life, you will be faced with a choice. You can choose love or hate…I choose love.”
― Johnny Cash

“Logically—for what had a more gloomy prognosis than life?—every morning one should say to one’s friends: ‘I grieve for your irrevocable death’, as to anyone suffering from an incurable disease, and was the universal omission of this minimal gesture of sympathy the model for their reluctance to discuss the dreams?)”
― J.G. Ballard, The Drowned World

“You won’t understand what I mean now, but someday you will: the only trick of friendship, I think, is to find people who are better than you are—not smarter, not cooler, but kinder, and more generous, and more forgiving—and then to appreciate them for what they can teach you, and to try to listen to them when they tell you something about yourself, no matter how bad—or good—it might be, and to trust them, which is the hardest thing of all. But the best, as well.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life