I'm Just Gonna Read Mary Oliver Poems & Pretend I'm Fine

How to be Amazing

1. Give more than is required

2. Learn as much as you can

3. Be strong and courageous

4. Speak and live your truth

5. Be true to your values

6. Resist mediocrity

7. Seek to inspire others

8. Love wholeheartedly.

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i would rather have yellow teeth and be able to enjoy wine and coffee freely. This principle applies to most pleasures in this world …

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we are not born to die!! what are you talking about!! do you think a book begins just to finish? do you think a song opens with a beautiful chord just for it to end? you don’t read the book to finish it, you read the book to eat up the excitement and the emotions it evokes!! to learn and to digest and to fall in love and be heartbroken!! you listen to the song to dance and dance and sing your throat raw!!! to cry and smile and swell with the harmonies!! yes, we are born with the inevitable fate of death, we are mortal after all, but that is merely the finale of the play!! the final act, the closing of the curtains - we are not born to take a bow and exit stage left!! we are born to love and be joyous and yell and move and learn and cry and feelfeelfeel!!!  we are not born to die, silly, we’re born to live!!!

Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle, Vladimir Nabokov

nothing like stepping outside while the seasons are changing and suddenly feeling a change in the weather that knocks you back in time by several years

I have so much love and respect for women who are honest about their own loneliness but also find the good in it like when audrey hepburn said “I have to be alone very often. I’d be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That’s how I refuel” and when charlotte bronte said “I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself” and when jenny slate said “I think I’ve come to terms with the fact that there will always be a ribbon of loneliness running through who I am. But that’s why I want to do comedy, and why I want to connect with people. You can use that ribbon to be a part of a finer tapestry, or you can choke yourself out with it! Your choice!” and when mary oliver said “whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese, harsh & exciting - over & over announcing your place in the family of things”

Mary Oliver, "I Know Someone" from Devotions