'cause this life is a beautiful one

When adults say, “Teenagers think they are invincible” with that sly, stupid smile on their faces, they don’t know how right they are. We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken. We think that we are invincible because we are. We cannot be born, and we cannot die. Like all energy, we can only change shapes and sizes and manifestations. They forget that when they get old. They get scared of losing and failing. But that part of us greater than the sum of our parts cannot begin and cannot end, and so it cannot fail.

Do you think one can die of a broken heart?

i thought you left me today. i can’t do this life without you. please never do that again.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.

—Aristotle

Dear Everyone

I have lost words once again in absolutely the best way possible. We did it, you did it. We won $50k towards the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network! Realize that everything you did, whether you voted once or you voted every single day, will go towards saving the lives of tens of thousands of people each and every year from now on. Realize that you have brought smiles and tears of joy to thousands of people who will now have their stories told, and the death of their loved ones will not be in vain. Realize that everything you all have done has meant more to me than I could ever express in any way possible. And to my uncle - this is from me to you, I miss you more every single day…I cannot wait until I am in your arms again. Once again, and I owe you all a lifetime more, thank you, thank you, thank you…I am so very grateful.

Lesson #109

Lesson #109 - The feeling of truly missing someone can be the most painful emotion one will ever feel.

Change; we don’t like it, we fear it, but we can’t stop it from coming. We either adapt to change or we get left behind. And it hurts to grow, anybody who tells you it doesn’t is lying. But here’s the truth…the more things change, the more they stay the same. And sometimes, oh, sometimes change is good. Oh, sometimes, change is…everything.

Lesson #108

Lesson #108 - When you truly want something, you don’t see the boundaries and limitations. All you see is hope and possibility.

home shouldn’t be where your heart hurts the most.

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Modest Mouse

—The World At Large

You don’t know where and you don’t know when. 
But you still got your words and you got your friends.