'cause this life is a beautiful one

[kanika-misra]

…It’s that thing when you’re with someone and you love them and they know it, and they love you and you know it, but it’s a party. And you’re both talking to other people and you’re laughing and shining and you look across the room and catch each other’s eyes. But, but not because you’re possessive or it’s precisely sexual but because that is your person in this life. And it’s funny and sad but only because this life will end. And it’s this secret world that exists right there in public unnoticed that no one knows about. It’s sort of like how they say that, um, other dimensions exist all around us but we don’t have the ability to perceive them? That’s, that’s what I want out of a relationship or just life I guess. Love. Blah. I sound stoned. I’m not stoned. Thanks for dinner…

Frances Ha, 2013

[kanika-misra]

"We’re more efficient, refined and confident in our desire for a bite of the world… but, are we happier?

The more aggressively I seek out a quick fix to bandage my bloodied ego, the more tragically volatile I become. My desire for validation as a worthy individual engulfs me and leads me to become a version of myself I don’t particularly like: insecure, needy and ultimately, insatiable."

[kanika-misra]

"Do you know what hurts most about a broken heart? Not being able to remember how you felt before."

[kanika-misra]

We all have the potential to fall in love a thousand times in our lifetime. It's easy. The first girl I ever loved was someone I knew in sixth grade. Her name was Missy; we talked about horses. The last girl I love will be someone I haven't even met yet, probably. They all count. But there are certain people you love who do something else; they define how you classify what love is supposed to feel like. These are the most important people in your life, and you’ll meet maybe four or five of these people over the span of 80 years. But there’s still one more tier to all this; there is always one person you love who becomes that definition. It usually happens retrospectively, but it happens eventually. This is the person who unknowingly sets the template for what you will always love about other people, even if some of these loveable qualities are self-destructive and unreasonable. The person who defines your understanding of love is not inherently different than anyone else, and they’re often just the person you happen to meet the first time you really, really, want to love someone. But that person still wins. They win, and you lose. Because for the rest of your life, they will control how you feel about everyone else.

Chuck Klosterman

[kanika-misra]

It’s dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you’re feeling deeply. Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them. I was so preposterously serious in those days… Lightly, lightly – it’s the best advice ever given me… So throw away your baggage and go forward. There are quicksands all about you, sucking at your feet, trying to suck you down into fear and self-pity and despair. That’s why you must walk so lightly. Lightly my darling…

Aldous Huxley, Island

[kanika-misra]

Best Analogy Ever...

"Summer may be coming to an end, but I’m like a girlfriend who won’t accept that it’s over — I keep going about my day like it’s still summer, I bring up summer-related topics in all my conversations, and I have a lot of summer plans that, if I'm being honest, I know won’t happen. But me and summer were so GOOD together, you know? We had this special connection and when we were vibing it felt like anything could happen."

[kanika-misra]

Time to leave now, get out of this room, go somewhere, anywhere, sharpen this feeling of happiness and freedom, stretch your limbs, fill your eyes, be awake, wider awake, vividly awake in every sense and every pore.

Stefan Zweig

[kanika-misra]

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're alive.

Orlando A. Battista

[kanika-misra]

When someone you love dies, the world as you know it ends. Literally, it does. And it'll never be the same again. And you have to rebuild the world, and that's the hardest part. You have to pick up what's left, strap it down with you, and hope like hell that whatever is left will stick around for a long time.

The world as I knew it is over...again. And now I need to somehow get a new one together when there was plain perfection in my last world, and that's not fair and that's what sucks. So right now, I'm just looking for what's left. And I will find it. And I will love it and cherish it. But...I wasn't ready for my old one to end yet.

[kanika-misra]

Well, let it pass, he thought; April is over, April is over. There are all kinds of love in the world, but never the same love twice.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

[kanika-misra]

...the only people that interest me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones that never yawn or say a commonplace thing.. but burn, burn, burn like roman candles across the night.

Jack Kerouac - On The Road

[kanika-misra]

In all, what Neal was, simply, was tremendously excited with life, and though he was a con-man he was only conning people because he wanted so much to live and also to get involved with people that would otherwise pay no attention to him.

Jack Kerouac - On The Road

[kanika-misra]

If you give love and live long, then you'll never be alone.

[kanika-misra]

Death is a thief. It takes and keeps all that a person is, the person was.

[kanika-misra]

The only way to get through it, is to get through it.

[kanika-misra]

Youth offers the promise of happiness, but life offers the realities of grief.

Nicholas Sparks

[kanika-misra]

Lesson #111

Lesson #111 - The keys to happiness are shared with you constantly throughout your life. Unfortunately, it's usually not until you've reached happiness already that you value those keys.