“It’s better, Benji, to have something burn brightly for a short time than to never have it at all.”
“I realize then that we never have children, we receive them. And sometimes it’s not for quite as long as we would have expected or hoped. But it is still far better than never having had those children at all.”
“She wonders what fool ever said that it's better to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all - she has never disagreed with something so much.”
“It is better to have bounced and bumped than never to have bounced at all. ”
“It is better to have loafed and lost than never to have loafed at all.”
“We have to burn brightly. We can’t burn forever”