“Do what makes you happy, be with who makes you smile, laugh as much as you breathe, and love as long as you live.”

“Laugh as much as you breathe and Love as long as you live.”

“Do what makes you happy;Be with who makes you smile;Laugh as much as you breathe;& love as long as you live.”

“Maybe you think you’ll be entitled to more happiness later by forgoing all of it now, but it doesn’t work that way. Happiness takes as much practice as unhappiness does. It’s by living that you live more. By waiting you wait more. Every waiting day makes your life a little less. Every lonely day makes you a little smaller. Every day you put off your life makes you less capable of living it.”

“Time passes and I am still not through it. Grief isn't something you get over. You live with it. You go on on with it lodged in you. Sometimes I feel like I have swallowed a pile of stones. Grief makes me heavy. It makes me slow. Even on days when I laugh a lot, or dance, or finish a project, or meet a deadline, or celebrate, or make love, it is there. Lodged deep inside of me.”

“Please believe him. Keep your heart open to him. He can make you happy. He has always loved you, and you once loved him with all your heart.”

“I feel like I should love them right away. But how do you do that? You can't make yourself love someone, can you?”