Do you go to a theatrical experience for the length of the piece or the quality? A simple question that may sneak up and inform the way you live:
“As it is with a play, so it is with life—what matters is not how long the acting lasts, but how good it is.”
– Seneca
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From the man who introduced the concept of the “fourth wall,” allowing generation after generation to go ahead and break through it:
“To attempt the destruction of our passions is the height of folly. What a noble aim is that of the zealot who tortures himself like a madman in order to desire nothing, love nothing, feel nothing, and who, if he succeeded, would end up a complete monster!
– Denis Diderot
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Be sure to always make room for this one. Life is so much easier with it as a guide:
“One hour of right-down love is worth an age of dully living on.”
– Aphra Behn
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The joy of losing your way, or stumbling onto a frustrating path, is that you may come out of it with something you never imagined you would gain:
“Sometimes it’s necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly.”
– Edward Albee
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They say that it is written
That souls were made to intertwine.
And as we looped into each other’s lives,
I traced unseen paths in your palm
Running parallel to life lines,
love lines.
I let each one take up home in my thoughts,
step by step retreading the routes,
so that when the day came
that tepid fears made for muddled sight,
the direction home was always clear.
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Dreams are attainable. The fear that they are is what stops many from reaching them. Go boldly in the direction of your dreams, as they will offer light.
“A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”
– Oscar Wilde
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