The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image. If in loving them we do not love what they are, but only their potential likeness to ourselves, then we do not love them: we only love the reflection of ourselves we find in them.
~Thomas Merton
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But who can say what’s best? That’s why you need to grab whatever chance you have of happiness where you find it, and not worry about other people too much. My experience tells me that we get no more than two or three such chances in a life time, and if we let them go, we regret it for the rest of our lives.
~Haruki Murakami
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To lose balance sometimes for love is part of living a balanced life.
~Elizabeth Gilbert
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You know how they say you only hurt the ones you love? Well, it works both ways.
~Chuck Palahniuk
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Make sure, as often as possible, you are doing something you’d be happy to die doing.
~Matt Haig
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“It’s true: lives do drift apart for no obvious reason. We’re all busy people,we can’t spend our time simply trying to stay in touch. The test of a friendship is if it can weather these inevitable gaps.”
~William Boyd
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Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
~Truman Capote
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Life consists of two days, one for you one against you. So when it’s for you don’t be proud or reckless, and when it’s against you be patient, for both days are test for you.
~Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S
Any Human Heart by William Boyd
If you’ve never read a William Boyd novel, this is a good one to start with.
Any Human Heart is a fictionalized journal of a fictional character, Logan Mountstuart. It is a story of a life well-lived and a journey deep into a very human heart. The book is easy to read, the chapters weren’t too long, it is powerful, realistic and a beautiful story. Logan is generous, smart, naïve and selfish which makes him so real and interesting. And like any human journeys, his life has its own ups and downs, accidents, coincidences, tragedies and triumphs.
Aging is also addressed in this book in which there are moments where it is absolutely depressing, you see Logan at his worst. But there are also moments where you’ll see how aging made him wiser. He was never envious of youth.
William Boyd was able to make it like everything is true and that it is indeed from a dead man’s journal. I don’t know if others will agree but this is such an amazing novel where it’s hard to believe that Logan Mountstuart never existed.
And in the end, we get to ask ourselves, “What defines success?” “What is a life well-lived?” Logan reassures us that, “Every life is both ordinary and extraordinary – it is the respective proportion of those two categories that make that life appear interesting or humdrum.”
Quotable Quotes:
“I have to start my real life soon, before I die of boredom and frustration.”
“It’s true: lives do drift apart for no obvious reason. We’re all busy people,we can’t spend our time simply trying to stay in touch. The test of a friendship is if it can weather these inevitable gaps.”
“I felt shocked and then saddened. life does this to you sometimes – leads you up a path and then drops you in the shit, to mix a metaphor.”
Rating : 5/5 stars
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Better never means better for everyone… It always means worse, for some.
~Margaret Atwood
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I keep telling you the future isn’t set in stone. It’s not all decided yet. The future is just what’s down the road we decided to walk on today. You can change roads anytime. And that changes where you end up.
~Catherine Ryan Hyde
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Keep your mind open. The meaning of things lies in how people perceive them. The same thing could mean different meanings to the same people at different times.
~Roy T. Bennett
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Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get.
~W.P. Kinsella
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Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.
~Edward Abbey
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There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
~Maya Angelou
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There comes a day in every man’s life when he stops looking
forward and starts looking back.~Maxwell Hill
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Love and loss,” he said, “are like a ship and the sea. They rise together. The more we love, the more we have to lose. But the only way to avoid loss is to avoid love. And what a sad world that would be.
~V.E. Schwab
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Time is a gift, given to you, given to give you the time you need, the time you need to have the time of your life.
~Norton Juster
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Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.
~Cormac McCarthy
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Assumptions are the termites of relationships.
~Henry Winkler
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Death’s greatest power is not that it can make people die, but that it can make people want to stop living.
~Fredrik Backman
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The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.
~Marcus Aurelius
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You do not write your life with words…You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do.
~Patrick Ness
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There is no need of any competition with anybody. You are yourself, and as you are, you are perfectly good. Accept yourself.
~Osho
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Everybody has a secret world inside of them. All of the people of the world, I mean everybody. No matter how dull and boring they are on the outside, inside them they’ve all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds. Not just one world. Hundreds of them. Thousands maybe.
~Neil Gaiman
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It’s amazing how a little tomorrow can make up for a whole lot of yesterday.
~John Guare
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Close some doors today. Not because of pride, incapacity, or arrogance, but simply because they lead you nowhere.
~Paulo Coelho
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Sometimes the smallest things take the most room in your heart.
~Winnie the Pooh
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Some steps need to be taken alone. It’s the only way to really figure out where you need to go and who you need to be.
~Mandy Hale
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I believe that kindness is the universal language. When someone does something kind it is understood despite language barriers or cultural differences. We should really communicate with kindness more often.
~Devin Patrick
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All change is not growth, just as all movement is not forward.
~Ellen Glasgow
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I guess I’m trying to say, grab anything that goes by. It may not come around again.
~John Steinbeck
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Unless you know who you are, you will always be vulnerable to what people say.
~Phil McGraw
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It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.
~Henry David Thoreau
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We are products of our past but we don’t have to be prisoners of it.
~Rick Warren
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You can never really go back to the same waters. Not only are you no longer the same, but neither are the waters you left. The current has changed. The elements of nature have affected the stream. When you return, although it appears the same, it really is a different river and you are a different person. Therefore, you cannot cross the same river twice.
~Alice Walker
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Don’t run from lessons; they are little packages of treasure that have been given to us. As we learn from them, our lives change for the better.
~Louise Hay
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What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
~Helen Keller
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Sometimes being offered tenderness feels like the very proof that you’ve been ruined.
~Ocean Vuong
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Sometimes when you’re in a dark place you think you’ve been buried but you’ve actually been planted.
~Christine Caine
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Letting go doesn’t mean that you don’t care about someone anymore. It’s just realizing that the only person you really have control over is yourself.
~Deborah Reber
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Try to understand men. If you understand each other you will be kind to each other. Knowing a man well never leads to hate and almost always leads to love.
~John Steinbeck
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Time can be a greedy thing — sometimes it steals the details for itself.
~Khaled Hosseini
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There comes a time when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your own heart. So you’d better learn the sound of it. Otherwise you’ll never understand what it’s saying.
~Sarah Dessen
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Attitude is a choice. Happiness is a choice. Optimism is a choice. Kindness is a choice. Giving is a choice. Respect is a choice. Whatever choice you make makes you. Choose wisely.
~Roy T. Bennett
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Hope can be a powerful force. Maybe there’s no actual magic in it, but when you know what you hope for most and hold it like a light within you, you can make things happen, almost like magic.
~Laini Taylor
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It’s amazing how a little tomorrow can make up for a whole lot of yesterday.
~John Guare
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There are all kinds of love in the world, but never the same love twice.
~F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.
~Victor Hugo
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People are icebergs, with just a bit you can see and loads you can’t.
~David Mitchell
