“Your life is the one place you have to spend yourself fully – wild, generous, drastic – in an unrationed profligacy of self…”
- Robin Morgan
“We are not born all at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later; and the birth and growth of the spirit, in those who are attentive to their own inner life, are slow and exceedingly painful. Our mothers are racked with the pains of our physical birth; we ourselves suffer the longer pains of our spiritual growth.”
- Mary Antin
“…for endings as it is known are where we begin.”
- Pushing Daisies television show, episode: “Kerplunk”, original air date 6/13/2009
“As I grow to understand life less and less, I learn to love it more and more.”
- Jules Renard
“Every day when you wake up, ask yourself, ‘What do I really, really, really want?’ You have to say really, really, really, otherwise you won’t believe it.”
- Elizabeth Gilbert
“No one could make a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.”
- Edmund Burke
“I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.”
- Walt Disney
“The person who does not worry about the future will shortly have worries about the present.”
- Ancient Chinese Proverb
“Did you say it?
I love you.
I don’t ever want to live without you.
You changed my life.
Did you say it?
Make a plan.
Set a goal.
Work toward it.
But every now and then look around.
Drink it in.
‘Cause this is it.
It might all be gone tomorrow.”
- Grey’s Anatomy, Season 5, Episode “Now or Never”
“we all write about love don’t we. but love is the thing. it is the thing that will always need the most nurturing and attention. it is the thing that we can taste when it is gone. it is the thing that makes a smile that can not be unsmiled. it is the thing that the world beats to.”
- Ingrid Michaelson
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