"Either be groovy or leave, man."

QUESTIONS WE SHOULD PERIODICALLY ASK:

“May you know the softness that comes from being well-loved.”

“You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming.”

“I would like to be known as an intelligent woman, a courageous woman, a loving woman, a woman who teaches by being.”

“My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.”

Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could.

“One day you will wake up and there won’t be any more time to do the things you’ve always wanted to do. Do it now.”