You denied my attention but desired my affection

In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: It goes on.

I was within and without. Simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.

For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.

Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

Don’t feel stupid if you don’t like what everyone else pretends to love.