❝ 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. ❞

―Louise Erdrich, The Painted Drum
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❝ If you don’t live for something, you’ll die for nothing. If you don’t stand for something, you’ll fall for anything. ❞

―Anonymous (submitted by intelligenceisimportant)
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❝ Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none. ❞

―William Shakespeare (submitted by feelingfree-kissingthesky)
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Mental Strength

Mental Strength

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❝ Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact. ❞

―Henry James
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❝ It takes a good fall to really know where you stand. ❞

―Hayley Williams (submitted by intelligenceisimportant)
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❝ To live in this world
you must be able
to do three things:
to love what is mortal;
to hold it
against your bones knowing
your own life depends on it;
and, when the time comes to let it go,
to let it go. ❞

―Mary Oliver
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❝ Don’t be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves. ❞

―Dale Carnegie
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