Then there are also the quiet deaths. How about the day you realized you weren't going to be an astronaut or the queen of Sheba? Feel the silent distance between yourself and how you felt as a child, between yourself and those feelings of wonder and splendor and trust. Feel the mature fondness for who you once were, and your current need to protect innocence wherever you make might find it. The silence that surrounds the loss of innocence is a most serious death, and yet it is necessary for the onset of maturity. What about the day we began working not for ourselves, but rather with the hope that our kids have a better life? Or the day we realize that, on the whole, adult life is deeply repetitive? As our lives roll into the ordinary, when our ideals sputter and dissipate, as we wash the dishes after yet another meal, we are integrating death, a little part of us is dying so that another part can live. Matthew Sanford
Only when you accept that one day you'll die can you let go, and make the best out of life. And that's the big secret. That's the miracle.
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Unknown
Life is but a dream for the dead.
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Gerard Way
My name is Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered.
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Alice Sebold
You were born a child of light’s wonderful secret– you return to the beauty you have always been.
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Aberjhani
Do you shovel to survive, or survive to shovel?
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Unknown
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Then there are also the quiet deaths. How about the day you realized you weren't going to be an astronaut or the queen of Sheba? Feel the silent distance between yourself and how you felt as a child, between yourself and those feelings of wonder...
