Wednesday, May 14, 2014

You Are Here To Risk Your Heart


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

 

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