Adrian Tan on day
Adrian Tan27 quotes“Each day, you must rise with a restless enthusiasm. If you don’t, you are working.”
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It far easier to find a reason not to love someone, than otherwise.
Adrian TanAdrian Tan I’m here to tell you this. Forget about your life expectancy.
Adrian TanAdrian Tan Then one will gravitate towards the centre and settle into the average. That cannot be your role.
Adrian TanAdrian Tan Don’t work. Avoid telling the truth. Be hated. Love someone.
Adrian TanAdrian Tan You will find, that when you have someone to love, that the face is less important than the brain, and the body is less important than the heart.
Adrian TanAdrian Tan There is admiration, learning, attraction and something which, for the want of a better word, we call happiness.
Adrian TanAdrian Tan You either don’t, or you do with every cell in your body, completely and utterly, without reservation or apology. It consumes you, and you are reborn, all the better for it.
Adrian TanAdrian Tan You’re going to have a busy life. Thank goodness there’s no life expectancy.
Adrian TanAdrian Tan Find that pursuit that will energize you, consume you, become an obsession.
Adrian TanAdrian Tan They would be very disappointed that they didn’t meet their life expectancy.
Adrian TanAdrian Tan Bad news. Read the papers. There are people dropping dead when they’re 50, 40, 30 years old. Or quite possibly just after finishing their convocation.
Adrian TanAdrian Tan We learn the true worthlessness of material things. We celebrate being human. Loving is good for the soul…
Adrian TanAdrian Tan Loving someone has great benefits.
Adrian TanAdrian Tan It is far too easy to be liked, one merely has to be accommodating and hold no strong convictions.
Adrian TanAdrian Tan You will also find that it is no great tragedy if your love is not reciprocated.
Adrian TanAdrian Tan Finally, you will find that there is no half-measure when it comes to loving someone.
Adrian TanAdrian Tan
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From our community writers
Poetry is the voice of the soul and the inspiration of the heart.
Teresa PeresTeresa Peres But it was now time for her to go away-to find someone who could show her what happiness was.
Lang LeavLang Leav Just because you haven’t seen how wonderful, beautiful, and special she is, doesn’t mean no one else will.
Norah RoseNorah Rose A memory is a star or a stain.
Aneena BijuAneena Biju Love her, but don’t forget to leave her wild.
Little PaulsonLittle Paulson Do your own thing and live your way of happiness.
Emily BockEmily Bock I’ve experienced departure far too much to have the courage and call anyone my own.
Mira R. AridiMira R. Aridi More often than I am not, all I need is the rise of my own lungs – I am already complete.
Shelby EnsignShelby Ensign
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More on day
In my early days, I was eager to learn and to do things, and therefore I learned quickly.
Sitting BullSitting Bull If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.
Thomas PaineThomas Paine By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp.
Cormac McCarthyCormac McCarthy If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn’t love as much in eighty years as I could in a day.
Emily BronteEmily Bronte We provide food that customers love, day after day after day. People just want more of it.
Ray KrocRay Kroc Let the peace of this day be here tomorrow when I wake up.
Thomas PynchonThomas Pynchon Night is longer than day for those who dream & day is longer than night for those who make their dreams comes true.
Jack KerouacJack Kerouac I cannot endure to waste anything as precious as autumn sunshine by staying in the house. So I spend almost all the daylight hours in the open air.
Nathaniel HawthorneNathaniel Hawthorne
