I am quite the sentimentalist. It does not take much for something I experience (see, read, watch, smell, touch, hear, taste, etc.) or someone I meet to alter my view of my life and the world around me. Some may view this as a weakness, but I find it to be my greatest strength. I am able to empathize and internalize almost everything. I am not sure if I have ever been in love, but I am certain that I have come very close to it.
In the past few months, I have gone through a personal catharsis. Nothing can really describe it. I have collected a few quotes that - when read as a whole - give spirit to this feeling of individual renaissance. My accomplishments and goals directly correlate with the firm backing and encouragement I have received from my family and friends. Without them, I would not be where I am today. They have made me who I am and who I will become.
This is dedicated to you, family and friends.
(Please do not judge the source of the quotes, but rather, look at their overarching themes and relate them to your relationship with me.)
“A guy needs somebody — to be near him. A guy goes nuts if he ain’t got nobody. Don't make no difference who the guy is, long's he's with you. I tell ya, I tell ya a guy gets too lonely an' he gets sick.”
Candy in Of Mice and Men
“You can’t live your life for other people. You’ve got to do what’s right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.”
Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
“Before we met, I was as lost as a person could be and yet you saw something in me that somehow gave me direction again.”
Nicholas Sparks, Nights in Rodanthe
“Silence is holy. It draws people closer together. Because those who are only comfortable with each other, can sit without speaking.”
Nicholas Sparks
“I love you. I am who I am because of you. You are every reason, every hope, and every dream I’ve ever had, and no matter what happens to us in the future, every day we are together is the greatest day of my life. I will always be yours.”
Nicholas parks, The Notebook
“There is a different kind of love; one that gives you courage to be better than you are and that makes you think that anything is possible.”
Nicholas Sparks, Nights in Rodanthe
"It is this, that ever since I have seen you, I know not why, you have taken a place in my life; that, if I drive the thought of you out of my mind, it always comes back; that when I met you to-day, after not having seen you for two years, you made a deeper impression on my heart and mind than ever; that, now that you have let me come to see you, now that I know you, now that I know all that is strange in you, you have become a necessity of my life, and you will drive me mad, not only if you will not love me, but if you will not let me love you."
Translated from Alexandre Dumas' (fils), La Dame aux camelias.
"We were friends and have become estranged. But this was right, and we do not want to conceal and obscure it from ourselves as if we had reason to feel ashamed. We are two ships each of which has its goal and course; our paths may cross and we may celebrate a feast together, as we did—and then the good ships rested so quietly in one harbor and one sunshine that it may have looked as if they had reached their goal and as if they had one goal. But then the almighty force of our tasks drove us apart again into different seas and sunny zones, and perhaps we shall never see one another again,—perhaps we shall meet again but fail to recognize each other: our exposure to different seas and suns has changed us! That we have to become estranged is the law above us: by the same token we should also become more venerable for each other! And thus the memory of our former friendship should become more sacred! There is probably a tremendous but invisible stellar orbit in which our very different ways and goals may be included as small parts of this path,—let us rise up to this thought! But our life is too short and our power of vision too small for us to be more than friends in the sense of this sublime possibility. Let us then believe in our star friendship even if we should be compelled to be earth enemies."
Translated from Friedrich Nietzsche's The Gay Science.
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