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We're not going to space because we're afraid of aliens.
We're going because we're scared we're alone.
It's an awfully big universe to be alone in.

Death isn't fair.
No, death is a slow drum. It counts every beat. We can't haggle with it for more time.

It hurts less and less. That's the good thing about forgetting things. You forget the things that hurt too.

It feels like constantly searching in your pockets. First you lose the small things, then it's the big ones. It starts with keys and it ends with people.

The only time you've failed is if you don't try once more

Those who hasten to live are in a hurry to miss

Humans are a strange breed in the way our fear of getting old seems to be even greater than our fear of dying.

Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift.
It's not happy people who are grateful, it's grateful people who are happy.

One of the benefits of being an artist is that you spend so much time watching people, looking not just at all the shades and contours of their faces, but into their souls. It gives you an almost uncanny insight.

Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack in everything
That's how the light gets in

- Leonard Cohen

"Maybe people can be happy and sad.
Maybe stories are messy and complicated.
Maybe endings don't always include solutions that tie everything together in a bow.
But that doesn't mean that they have to be tragedies."

"Or maybe some people are too broken.
Maybe...maybe things have happened in their lives, in their past, that have damaged them so bad, they're never going to get happy endings with the love of their lives.
Maybe some people are meant to be tragedies "

It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime.

It's easy to confuse feelings and emotions for something they aren't, especially when eye contact is involved.

God gives us the ugliness so we don't take the beautiful things in life for granted.

Theft is the one unforgivable sin, the common denominator of all sins. When you kill a man, you steal a life. You steal his wife's right to a husband, rob his children of a father. When you tell a lie, you steal someone's right to the truth. When you cheat, you steal the right to fairness. There is no act more wretched than stealing.

Η ελπίδα είναι σαν σπασμένο γυαλί που μας έχει μπει στο πόδι. Όσο είναι μέσα στη σάρκα, πονάει σε κάθε βήμα που κάνουμε. Αν το βγάλουμε όμως αιμορραγεί μεν για λίγο και χρειάζεται κάποιος χρόνος μέχρι να κλείσει η πληγή, τελικά όμως μπορούμε να συνεχίσουμε να περπατάμε. Αυτή η διαδικασία λέγεται και πένθος.

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“Now you're anxious about your anxiety, which is causing more anxiety... Quick! Where's the whiskey?? “

We never ACT, only REACT once we realize the clock is ticking...