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You should never be the second choice. You’re worth so much more than that, but I don’t think anyone has told you that before.

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I learned it from the Neapolitan ice cream. That was when it started. 

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You have to welcome the stress because it means you’re doing something right. Having choices means you have power. It means you get to dictate the course of your own life.

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I have to feel it all. Otherwise, I’m missing myself.

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You get a good job, progress, settle down, and that’s your life.

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Maybe you’ll die, knowing you haven’t just survived, but actually lived.

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If we never stopped to ask ourselves how we feel about our own lives, we’d just float on by, passively, down a lazy river free from any decisions.

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I have things I got fed up with and stopped doing after reaching that age that teeters on the edge of being a grumpy old fool.

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Say yes to that trip you’ve been holding off because all you have is right now and it’s time you stop thinking about it and start doing it.

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My sperm have horns, carry tridents, and hiss.