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"Do I wither up and disappear, or do I make the best of my time left?" he had asked himself. He would not wither. He would not be ashamed of dying
No more writing songs in my apartment, songs that no one would hear
I buried myself in accomplishments, because with accomplishments, I believed I could control things.
Accept what you are able to do and what you are not able to do, accept the past as past without denying it or discarding it. Learn to forgive yourself and forgive others. Don't assume that it's too late to get involved.
I decided I'm going to live-or at least try to live-the way way I want-with dignity, with courage, with humor, with composure.
I hope that one day, you will think of me as your friend
I was suprised at such affection after all these years, but then, in the stone walls I had built between my present and my past, I had forgotten how close we once were.
Life without freedom to get up and go-motorcycle beneath you, breeze in your face, down the streets of paris, into the mountains of Tibet-was not a good life at all.
Dying is only one thing to be sad over Mitch. Living unhappily is something else.
I am surrounded by loving, caring sould. How many people can say that?
They gave up days and weeks of their lives, addicted to someone else's drama.
I guess the key to finding the meaning of life is to take out the garbage.
Maybe death is the great equalizer, the one big thing that can finally make strangers shed a tear for one another.
The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.
Love is the only rational act.
For all the noise I make with my friends, I am still not comfortable talking about my feelings in front of others.
I give myself a good cry if I need it. But then i concentrate on all the good things still in my life.
How useful it would be to put a daily limit on self pity.
Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel. And if you are ever going to have other people trust you, you must feel that you can trust them too-even when you're in the dark. Even when you're falling.
Tapes, like photographs and videos, are a desperate attempt to steal something from death's suitcase.
Every confused and tortured soul I knew wanted that clarity.
Part of me is scared of leaving school. Part of me wants to go desperately. Tension of opposites.
The loving relationships maintain me.
The truth is, Mitch, once you learn how to die, you learn how to live.
The fact is, there is no foundation, no secure ground, upon which people may stand today if it isn't the family.
If you don't have the support and love and caring and concern that you get from a family, you don't have much at all. Love is so supremely important. As our great poet Auden said, 'Love each other or perish'
Without love, we are birds with broken wings.
This is part of what a family is about, not just love, but letting others know there's someone who is watching out for them.
Don't cling to things, because everything is impermanent
Turn on the faucet. Wash yourself with the emotion. It won't hurt you. It will only help.
We all yearn in some way to return to those days when we were completely taken care of-unconditional love, unconditional attention.
As you grow, you learn more. If you stayed at twenty-two, you'd always be as ignorant as you were at twenty-two. Aging is not just decaying you know. It's growth.
If you've found meaning in your life, you don't want to go back. You want to go forward.
You have to find what is good and true and beautiful in you life as it is now.
Money is not a substitute for tenderness and power is not a substitute for tenderness. I can tell you, as I'm sitting here dying, when you most need it, neither money nor power will give you the feeling you're looking for, no matter how much of them you have.
If you're trying to show off for people at the top, forget it. They will look down at you anyhow. And if you're trying to show off for the people at the botton, forget it. They will envy you. Status will get you nowhere. Only an open heart will allow you to float equally between everyone.
Do the kinds of things that come from the heart. When you do, you won't be dissatisfied, you won't be envious, you won't be longing for somebody else's things. On the contrary, you'll be overwhelmed with what comes back.
Love is how you stay alive, even after you are gone.
I believe in being fully present. That means you should be with the person you're with.
People haven't found meaning in their lives, so they're running around all the time looking for it. They think the next car, the next house, the next job. Then they found those things are empty too, and they keep running.
There would be lots of holding and kissing and talking and laughter and no goodbyes left unsaid.
I've learned this much about marriage. You get tested. You find out who you are, who the other person is, and how you accomodate and don't.
How we think, what we value-those you must choose yourself. You can't let anyone or any society determine those for you.
We all have the same beginning-birth-and we all have the same end-death. So how different can we be?
Invest in the human family. Invest in people. Build a little community of those you love and who love you.
Don't let go too soon, but don't hang on too long.
Tears are okay.
We need to forgive ourselves for the things we didn't do. All the things we should have done. You can't get stuck on the regrets of what should have happened.
As long as we can love each other, and remember the feeling of love we had, we can die without ever really going away. All the love you created is still there. All the memories are still there. You live on in the hearts of everyone you have touched and nurtured while you were here.
Death ends a life, not a relationship.
There is no formula to relationships. They have to be negotiated in loving ways, with room for both parties, what they want and what they need, what they can do and what their life is like.
Love is when you're as concerned about someone else's situation as you are about your own.
"You...are a good soul...touched me..." he whispered. He moved my hand to his heart, "here".
Pay attention when your loved ones are speaking, as if it were the last time you might hear them.
No more writing songs in my apartment, songs that no one would hear
I buried myself in accomplishments, because with accomplishments, I believed I could control things.
Accept what you are able to do and what you are not able to do, accept the past as past without denying it or discarding it. Learn to forgive yourself and forgive others. Don't assume that it's too late to get involved.
I decided I'm going to live-or at least try to live-the way way I want-with dignity, with courage, with humor, with composure.
I hope that one day, you will think of me as your friend
I was suprised at such affection after all these years, but then, in the stone walls I had built between my present and my past, I had forgotten how close we once were.
Life without freedom to get up and go-motorcycle beneath you, breeze in your face, down the streets of paris, into the mountains of Tibet-was not a good life at all.
Dying is only one thing to be sad over Mitch. Living unhappily is something else.
I am surrounded by loving, caring sould. How many people can say that?
They gave up days and weeks of their lives, addicted to someone else's drama.
I guess the key to finding the meaning of life is to take out the garbage.
Maybe death is the great equalizer, the one big thing that can finally make strangers shed a tear for one another.
The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.
Love is the only rational act.
For all the noise I make with my friends, I am still not comfortable talking about my feelings in front of others.
I give myself a good cry if I need it. But then i concentrate on all the good things still in my life.
How useful it would be to put a daily limit on self pity.
Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel. And if you are ever going to have other people trust you, you must feel that you can trust them too-even when you're in the dark. Even when you're falling.
Tapes, like photographs and videos, are a desperate attempt to steal something from death's suitcase.
Every confused and tortured soul I knew wanted that clarity.
Part of me is scared of leaving school. Part of me wants to go desperately. Tension of opposites.
The loving relationships maintain me.
The truth is, Mitch, once you learn how to die, you learn how to live.
The fact is, there is no foundation, no secure ground, upon which people may stand today if it isn't the family.
If you don't have the support and love and caring and concern that you get from a family, you don't have much at all. Love is so supremely important. As our great poet Auden said, 'Love each other or perish'
Without love, we are birds with broken wings.
This is part of what a family is about, not just love, but letting others know there's someone who is watching out for them.
Don't cling to things, because everything is impermanent
Turn on the faucet. Wash yourself with the emotion. It won't hurt you. It will only help.
We all yearn in some way to return to those days when we were completely taken care of-unconditional love, unconditional attention.
As you grow, you learn more. If you stayed at twenty-two, you'd always be as ignorant as you were at twenty-two. Aging is not just decaying you know. It's growth.
If you've found meaning in your life, you don't want to go back. You want to go forward.
You have to find what is good and true and beautiful in you life as it is now.
Money is not a substitute for tenderness and power is not a substitute for tenderness. I can tell you, as I'm sitting here dying, when you most need it, neither money nor power will give you the feeling you're looking for, no matter how much of them you have.
If you're trying to show off for people at the top, forget it. They will look down at you anyhow. And if you're trying to show off for the people at the botton, forget it. They will envy you. Status will get you nowhere. Only an open heart will allow you to float equally between everyone.
Do the kinds of things that come from the heart. When you do, you won't be dissatisfied, you won't be envious, you won't be longing for somebody else's things. On the contrary, you'll be overwhelmed with what comes back.
Love is how you stay alive, even after you are gone.
I believe in being fully present. That means you should be with the person you're with.
People haven't found meaning in their lives, so they're running around all the time looking for it. They think the next car, the next house, the next job. Then they found those things are empty too, and they keep running.
There would be lots of holding and kissing and talking and laughter and no goodbyes left unsaid.
I've learned this much about marriage. You get tested. You find out who you are, who the other person is, and how you accomodate and don't.
How we think, what we value-those you must choose yourself. You can't let anyone or any society determine those for you.
We all have the same beginning-birth-and we all have the same end-death. So how different can we be?
Invest in the human family. Invest in people. Build a little community of those you love and who love you.
Don't let go too soon, but don't hang on too long.
Tears are okay.
We need to forgive ourselves for the things we didn't do. All the things we should have done. You can't get stuck on the regrets of what should have happened.
As long as we can love each other, and remember the feeling of love we had, we can die without ever really going away. All the love you created is still there. All the memories are still there. You live on in the hearts of everyone you have touched and nurtured while you were here.
Death ends a life, not a relationship.
There is no formula to relationships. They have to be negotiated in loving ways, with room for both parties, what they want and what they need, what they can do and what their life is like.
Love is when you're as concerned about someone else's situation as you are about your own.
"You...are a good soul...touched me..." he whispered. He moved my hand to his heart, "here".
Pay attention when your loved ones are speaking, as if it were the last time you might hear them.