Paper Dolls

What if she was meant to be, or could have been, someone important in my life? I think that’s what scares me: the randomness of everything. That the people who could be important to you might just pass you by. Or you pass them by. How do you know…I felt that by walking away I was abandoning them, that I spent my entire life, day after day, abandoning people.

Keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.

You cannot take your boat across the sea
If you are afraid of the waves,
The one who tries
Never fails.

One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don’t come home at night.

I’m responsible for what I said, not for what you understand

Lessoned Learned: Never sacrifice anything for anyone, who wouldn’t do the same for you

I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.

As you grow, you learn more. If you stayed as ignorant as you were at twenty-two, you’d always be twenty-two. Aging is not just decay, you know. It’s growth. It’s more than the negative that you’re going to die, it’s the positive that you understand you’re going to die, and that you live a better life because of it.