Inspirational Quotes

Life will break you.
Nobody can protect you from that,
and living alone won't either,
for solitude will also break you
with its yearning.
You have to love.
You have to feel.
It is the reason you are here on earth.
You are here to risk your heart.
You are here to be swallowed up.
And when it happens
that you are broken,
or betrayed,
or left,
or hurt,
or death brushes near,
let yourself sit by an apple tree
and listen to the apples
falling all around you
in heaps,
wasting their sweetness.
Tell yourself you tasted
as many
as you could.

~~Louise Erdrich~~

picture taken at the Pinery...the beach is my apple tree in life

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