Be ahead of all parting, as if it had already happened, like winter, which even now is passing. For beneath the winter is a winter so endlessthat to survive it at all is a triumph of the heart. Be forever dead in Eurydice, and climb back singing. Climb praising as you return to connection. Here among the disappearing, in the realm of the transient, be a ringing glass that shatters as it rings. Be. And, at the same time, know what it is not to be. The emptiness inside you allows you to vibratein full resonance with your world. Use it for once. To all that has run its course, and to the vast unsayablenumbers of beings abounding in Nature, add yourself gladly, and cancel the cost. . Rainer Maria Rilke
Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
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Albert Camus
I could die for you. But I couldn't, and wouldn't, live for you.
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Ayn Rand
Yea, all things live forever, though at times they sleep and are forgotten.
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H. Rider Haggard
The story of my recent life.' I like that phrase. It makes more sense than 'the story of my life', because we get so many lives between birth and death. A life to be a child. A life to come of age. A life to...
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Mitch Albom
Your days are numbered. Use them to throw open the windows of your soul to the sun. If you do not, the sun will soon set, and you with it.
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Marcus Aurelius
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