There are people who are open books and there are people who are closed books. You’re the most open book I’ve ever come across. And usually there’s no fun in reading someone so easy to read. It’s boring, there’s no challenge. But with you, there’s something that makes me want to keep turning the pages. I think it’s the fact that you’re always rewriting yourself. And I get to scribble in the margins.
If you are in recovery and thinking of giving up, don’t. I promise it will get better. You will get better.
Pain and pleasure, creation and destruction, love and hate, all serve their purpose as components to the process of personal evolution; thus one who seeks to live authentically will seek education through all variations of experience, and prefer honesty and passionate initiative, rather than the dull ache of complacency found in denial and escapism. – Paul John Moscatello
You can either feel sorry for yourself or treat what has happened as a gift. Everything is either an opportunity to grow or an obstacle to keep you from growing. You get to choose.
It is wrong to bear children out of need, wrong to use a child to alleviate loneliness, wrong to provide purpose in life by reproducing another copy of oneself. It is wrong also to seek immortality by spewing one’s germ into the future as though sperm contains your consciousness!
Learn to face your loneliest loneliness.
If you want to choose the pleasure of growth, prepare yourself for some pain.
The spirit of a man is constructed out of his choices.
If we climb high enough, we will reach a height from which tragedy ceases to look tragic.
