While we have the gift of life, it seems to me that only tragedy is to allow part of us to die - whether it is our spirit, our creativity, or our glorious uniqueness.
We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.
Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.