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“you deserve the kind of love that leaves no room for doubt. you deserve the kind of love that doesn’t require justification. you deserve the kind of love that gives you more answers than questions. never settle for less.”

“Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there’s no room for the present at all.”

“A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.”

“Life is so full of unpredictable beauty and strange surprises. Sometimes that beauty is too much for me to handle. Do you know that feeling? When something is just too beautiful? When someone says something or writes something or plays something that moves you to the point of tears, maybe even changes you.”

“Make a radical change in your lifestyle and begin to boldly do things which you may previously never have thought of doing, or been too hesitant to attempt. So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservation, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun. If you want to get more out of life, you must lose your inclination for monotonous security and adopt a helter-skelter style of life that will at first appear to you to be crazy. But once you become accustomed to such a life you will see its full meaning and its incredible beauty.”

“Words, I think, are such unpredictable creatures. No gun, no sword, no army or king will ever be more powerful than a sentence. Swords may cut and kill, but words will stab and stay, burying themselves in our bones to become corpses we carry into the future, all the time digging and failing to rip their skeletons from our flesh.”

“Hardly ever does one think of oneself, but only how to escape from oneself.”

“There are things you can’t get anywhere, but we dream they can be found in other people.”

“I’m not the person you left behind anymore. There’s no one here to miss.”

“There are things that have to be forgotten if you want to go on living.”

“I want deeper connections with the people around me. I need to reach out more. Because not everyone leaves. Sometimes if you reach out, the person you’re trying to reach will be right there waiting.”

“If we wait until we’re ready, we’ll be waiting for the rest of our lives.”