In loving someone, we become inspired to better ourselves in every way.
ADRIAN TANIn loving someone, we become inspired to better ourselves in every way.
ADRIAN TANThey would be very disappointed that they didn’t meet their life expectancy.
ADRIAN TANEach day, you must rise with a restless enthusiasm. If you don’t, you are working.
ADRIAN TANI’m here to tell you this. Forget about your life expectancy.
ADRIAN TANTt continues while we’re still trying to figure out the point of it. And it ends long before we’ve worked out just what to do.
ADRIAN TANBad 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 TANYou will also find that it is no great tragedy if your love is not reciprocated.
ADRIAN TANBe hated. One does not have to be evil to be hated. In fact, it’s often the case that one is hated precisely because one is trying to do right by one’s own convictions.
ADRIAN TANYou 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 TANIt is far too easy to be liked, one merely has to be accommodating and hold no strong convictions.
ADRIAN TANYou 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 TANThere are a great many bad people in the world, and if you are not offending them, you must be bad yourself.
ADRIAN TANYou are not doing it to be loved back. Its value is to inspire you.
ADRIAN TANDon’t work. Avoid telling the truth. Be hated. Love someone.
ADRIAN TANThen one will gravitate towards the centre and settle into the average. That cannot be your role.
ADRIAN TANFind that pursuit that will energize you, consume you, become an obsession.
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