What A Life
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“Nothing that happened makes me special. But my life is a gift that is too great — a debt I can never repay.”
— Thi Bui, The Best We Could Do
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I’ve always loved you, and when you love someone, you love the whole person, just as he or she is, and not as you would like them to be.
Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
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When you come into the real truth about yourself, you realize that the only person equipped to handle it is you.
Marlon James, A Brief History of Seven Killings
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The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven’s sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possible can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.
Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country
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on graduation & parting ways
Night in the Woods: Chapter 3 / unknown / When We Were Young - Adele / We May Never Pass This Way (Again) - Seals and Crofts / Mikko Harvey, for M / John Berger, “Will it be a likeness?” from The Shape of a Pocket / forever - Charli XCX / Lemony Snicket, The Beatrice Letters / nice2KnoU - All Time Low / @alisonzai
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Telling yourself that something does not matter is one of the loneliest things you can do, because you only say it, of course, about things that matter very much. But often, and this is the lonely part, they only matter to you.
— Lemony Snicket, Poison for Breakfast
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“He’s jealous of the moon, because you look at it. He’s jealous of the sun, because it warms you. I feel you, even when I’m not feeling you. I talk to you when I’m not talking to you. I love you, even when I’m not loving you.”
— Basquiat (1996) dir. Julian Schnabel
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“Nothing that happened makes me special. But my life is a gift that is too great — a debt I can never repay.”
— Thi Bui, The Best We Could Do
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“There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all of time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and it will be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is nor how valuable nor how it compares with other expressions. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open.”
— Martha Graham
