“Sometimes I have a weird dream that we’re all relatively brief sparks of consciousness that live on a rock circling a ball of fire.”
― How to be Happy: Not a Self-Help Book. Seriously
― How to be Happy: Not a Self-Help Book. Seriously
“Those who believe their suffering has been valuable love more readily than those who see no meaning in their pain.
Suffering does not necessarily imply love, but love implies suffering”
― Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity
Suffering does not necessarily imply love, but love implies suffering”
― Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity
“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.”
― A Little Life
― A Little Life
“The feeling you get when you think of something amazing and then forget it and know that it felt amazing but you cant remember the details. Then, minutes later, you remember it again and you’re so grateful because you nearly lost something, forever. Except, this time, its a person. Not an idea.”
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“When did pursuing your ambitions cross the line from brave into foolhardy? How did you know when to stop?”
― A Little Life
― A Little Life
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