As the tide washed up, the Dutch Tulip Man faced the ocean:
“Conjoiner rejoiner poisoner concealer revelator.
Look at it, rising up and rising down, taking everything with it.”
“What’s that?” I asked.
“Water,” the Dutchman replied. “Well, and time.”
Peter Van Houten (John Green), An Imperial Affliction (The Fault in Our Stars)
From An Imperial Affliction, a book within The Fault in Our Stars.
We don’t need to know what’s coming tomorrow to live today to the fullest!
Fairy Tail
*translated from Japanese
It ain’t about how hard you hit.
It’s about how hard you get hit and keep moving forward;
How much you can take and keep moving forward.
Get up, and don’t ever give up.
Rocky Balboa (film)
Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out to us.
That’s why it is a sin to kill a Mockingbird.
Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just have to find the ones worth suffering for.
Bob Marley
We are all a little weird and
Life’s a little weird,
And when we find someone whose
Weirdness is compatible with ours,
We join up with them and fall in
Mutual weirdness and call it Love.
Dr. Seuss
Fairness means everyone gets what they need.
And the only way to get what you need is to make it happen yourself.
Rick Riordan, The Red Pyramid
Yet, what made Nelson Mandela so great was precisely what made him human.
We saw in him what we seek in ourselves.
Jacob Zuma, in the wake of Nelson Mandela’s death
Nobody knows I’m all alone
Living in this castle made of stone
They say that money is freedom
But I feel trapped inside it all.
And while I sit so high up on a throne
I wonder how I can feel this low
On top the world it’s beautiful
But there’s no place to fall.
TI & Christina Aguilera, Castle Walls
Maybe there’s a God above
But all I’ve ever learned from love
Was how to shoot somebody who outdrew you
And it’s not a cry that you hear at night
It’s not somebody who’s seen the light
It’s a cold and it’s a broken
Hallelujah
Leonard Cohen, Hallelujah
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