The Midnight Library
Bertrand Russell wrote that ‘To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three-parts dead
The life of a human, according to the Scottish philosopher David Hume, was of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.
You can be anything you want to be. Because in one life, you are.’
In some lives she attracted none. In some lives she was rich. In some lives she was poor. In some lives she was healthy. In some lives she couldn’t climb the stairs without getting out of breath. In some lives she was in a relationship, in others she was solo, in many she was somewhere in between. In some lives she was a mother, but in most she wasn’t.
She realised that she hadn’t tried to end her life because she was miserable, but because she had managed to convince herself that there was no way out of her misery.
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams,’ Thoreau had said. ‘Live the life you’ve imagined