Learning to love through loss. Seeking warm
pockets in the bitter cold. Finding the worth of a smile on a cloudy day.
Carrying the weight of the world on weary shoulders—mistakes, sins,
injustices—added upon daily. Enduring burdens that spur greater strength.
This
is life.
Sorting through layers of expressions staring
you straight in the eye. A battle to be right when wrong, to be good when bad,
to be content when in need, and to laugh when tearing up.
This
is life.
Valuing things of no worth. Reevaluating dreams.
Laboring ceaselessly against the current. Seeing less, wanting more, having
enough.
This
is life.
Chasing the moon when the sun would extend its
warmth. Slapping the hand that would offer a gentle caress. Cowering at
personal, monstrous shadows. Giving and taking in unbalanced weights.
Diminishing the majesty of mountains in order to form our own lowly hills.
Hoping for more than we deserve.
This
is life.
Hurting. Despairing. Losing. Weeping. Suffering.
Laboring. Sinking. Mourning. Appreciating with greater capacity and sincerity a
learned knowledge that these adversities do have their opposites.
This
is life.
A taste. A revelation. A banishment. A mercy. A
test. An experience. A turbulent sea-voyage that shall assuredly reach the
unseen shore, making seasoned sailors of us all.
This is
life.
"You were born and with you endless possibilities, very few ever to be realized. It's okay. Life was never about what you could do, but what you would do. "
"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."
— Oscar Wilde
"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."
— Albert Einstein
"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."
— Robert Frost
"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened."
— Dr. Seuss
"So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be."
— Stephen Chbosky
"You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough."
— Mae West
"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans."
— Allen Saunders
“Life is a test. It was designed to be so. It is where we taste the bitter and the sweet; where we feel pain and pleasure; where we learn right from wrong; where we pass through both darkness and light. It is a time to make choices. And through this process we form our characters—some grand and glorious, some barely decent, and others just plain monstrous. ”