Better by far you should forget and smile than you should remember and be sad.
The pain of making the necessary sacrifices always hurts more than you think it's going to. I know. It sucks. That being said, doing something seriously creative is one of the most amazing experiences one can have, in this or any other lifetime. If you can pull it off, it's worth it. Even if you don't end up pulling it off, you'll learn many incredible, magical, valuable things. It's NOT doing it when you know you full well you HAD the opportunity- that hurts FAR more than any failure.
We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.
The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.