“Don’t let planning get in the way of doing.” ~Leslie Koch

“Instead of always waiting for your next vacation, you ought to create a life you don’t need to escape from.” ~Makes Me Think

“There is nothing particularly wrong with salmon, of course, but like caramel candy, strawberry yogurt, or liquid carpet cleaner, if you eat too much of it you are not going to enjoy your meal.” ~Lemony Snicket

“The city rises and falls: you were a dream; then a reality; now a memory.” ~I Wrote This For You

“And if I blink my eyes enough, maybe I will wake up and you will still be there sleeping next to me.” ~I Wrote This For You

“If you’re brave to say ‘good bye’, life will reward you with a new ‘hello'” ~Paulo Coelho

“And so, I wait because you have already left and my work here, is done. I wait and wonder how my skin feels like it’s made of love letters written a hundred years too soon (too late). I wonder at the mystery of life and how much of it can possibly remain. I wonder at pain and hurt and love and time and how much of each I held. I wonder at how I cannot remember anything in my life before I met you. I wonder at the tiniest of touches and try, desperately, to keep their memories alive. I wonder at loneliness. I wonder at how long it’ll be, before I see you again. I wait. And I wonder.” ~I Wrote This For You

“I hadn’t understood how days could be both long and short at the same time: long to live through, maybe, but so drawn out that they ended up flowing into one another. They lost their names. Only ‘yesterday’ and ‘tomorrow’ still had any meaning for me.” ~Albert Camus, The Stranger

“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

“You were flung across my sky like the brightest of shooting stars. The dust of you rained down around me, like cast off fireflies, they all burned out. Now I’m scared I’ll be blinded to any other light that might shine, there might be more fish in the sea, there might be more stars in the sky, but I feel like I’m alone in a boat…blind and without a fishing pole.”