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I think music is what language once aspired to be. Music allows us to face God on our own terms because it reaches beyond life.

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Simon Van Booy God Inspiration Life Music

Children are the closest we have to wisdom, and they become adults the moment that final drop of everything mysterious is strained from them.

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Simon Van Booy Adulthood Childhood Children Mystery Wisdom

I think people would be happier if they admitted things more often. In a sense we are all prisoners of some memory, or fear, or disappointment - we are all defined by something we can’t change.

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Simon Van Booy Confession Disappointment Fear Happiness Memory

Death is the most sophisticated form of beauty, and the most difficult to accept.

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Simon Van Booy Death Life

Language allows us to reach out to people, to touch them with our innermost fears, hopes, disappointments, victories. To reach out to people we'll never meet.It's the greatest legacy you could ever leave your children or your loved ones:The history of how you felt.

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Simon Van Booy Language Legacy People Writing

...I like stories very much,” the priest said. “They help me understand myself better.

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Simon Van Booy Knowledge Stories Understanding Understanding Oneself

Every moment is the paradox of now or never.

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Simon Van Booy Life Moments Now Or Never Paradox Time

[I] read books because I love them, not because I think I should read them.

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Simon Van Booy Bibliophiles Book Book Lovers Books Reading Reading Books

I wanted to explain that trusting is harder than being trusted.

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Simon Van Booy People Trust Trusting

Life had called his name, and without thinking, he had stepped forward. He wondered if perhaps he was becoming the person he had always wanted to be.

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Simon Van Booy Change Life

But those who seek only reassurance from life will never be more than tourists—seeing everything and trying to possess what can only be felt.Beauty is the shadow of imperfection.

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Simon Van Booy Beauty Imperfection Life

You were unsure which pain is worse -- the shock of what happened or the ache for what never will.

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Simon Van Booy Pain

Your grief is something to be admired – the pain of severance. A scar where something used to be.

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Simon Van Booy Grief And Loss Pain

Music helps us understand where we have come from but, more importantly, what has happened to us.

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Simon Van Booy Life Music Past Understanding

We cross from memory into imagination with only a vague awareness of change.

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Simon Van Booy Imagination Memory Mind

When a person is loved, they are granted the strength of all seas.

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Simon Van Booy Love Sea Strength

Actually, years mean nothing. It's what's inside them.

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Simon Van Booy Life Life In Your Years Living Unlived Life Years

Coincidences mean you're on the right path.

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Simon Van Booy Coincidence Destiny Fate Right Path

In the end I didn't know who I was crying for, but it was something my body wanted to do, as though trying to digest grief.

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Simon Van Booy Crying Grief Sadness Tears

That's truth, Harvey, not what's written on a piece of paper or in blood too small to see - but the memory of how it felt being together.

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Simon Van Booy Bloodlines Love Memory Truth

Dave once asked me what blind people dream about. Mostly in sound and feeling, I replied. At night I fall in love with a voice, and then wake to a feeling of physical loss. Sometimes I close my eyes to a chorus of “Happy Birthday!” The smell of cake and the sound of feet under the table. I awake in a body that’s too big. I also dream in motion and sensation. My father’s boat and the snore of the mast; the rough fabric of the safety harness and the rip of Velcro. The sun on my legs. And endless stretch of water impossible to imagine.

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Simon Van Booy Blindness Emotion Feeling Memory Sound

Sometimes I wake up and lie still enough to hear a petal drop from the vase of flowers. Sometimes I lie awake and wish there was someone to hear my falling.

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Simon Van Booy Flowers Loneliness

Loneliness is like being the only person left alive in theuniverse, except that everyone else is still here.

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Simon Van Booy Loneliness Universe

Anyone who is desperate or alone will agree there is comfort in routine.

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Simon Van Booy Comfort Desperation Loneliness Philosophical Solitude

He realized this early on, and realized too that what people think are their lives are merely its conditions. The truth is closer than thought and lies buried in what we already know.

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Simon Van Booy Life Lives Meaning Truth

The present grows within the boundaries of the past.

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Simon Van Booy Life Past Present

You are hatching from the past.

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Simon Van Booy Hope Moving Forward Moving On Past

Succes is really nothing more than the record of failure. To be successful means you must be willing to fail more than anyone else.

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Simon Van Booy Failure Simon Van Booy Succes

Love requires imagination more than experience.

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Simon Van Booy Experience Imagination Love

The most significant conversations of our lives occur in silence.

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Simon Van Booy Conversations Language Silence

Sometimes, language is the sound of longing

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Simon Van Booy Language Longing

The love of aman is like a drop of color into something clear.

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Simon Van Booy Love Man

She said that one day they would be very old, that the world would be a different place, but it would always be their world, and that the time apart now would be a nightmare from which they would recover - desperation buried under years of happiness.

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Simon Van Booy Age Happiness Memories Time

The very best and the very worst of life will come from [their] ability to love strangers.

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Simon Van Booy Heartbreak Hurt Life Love

I tried to convey to the boy how people’s lives are often altered by curved lines read slowly from paper, sand, or stone.

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Simon Van Booy Life Reading Stories

It is the afternoon of my birthday, but still the morning of my life.

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Simon Van Booy Inspirational Youth

Love is also a violence, and cannot be undone.

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Simon Van Booy Love Violence

When he smiles, they mostly look away. But Martin likes to think they carry his smile for a few blocks – that even the smallest gesture is something grand.

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Simon Van Booy Gestures Happiness Smile

We all have different lives, Martin believes – but in the end probably feel the same things, and regret the fear we thought might somehow sustain us.

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Simon Van Booy Fear Life Regret

Royal Young's writing is that rare blend of irony and beauty.

~ Simon Van Booy

Simon Van Booy Beauty British Celebrity Fame Irony Romance Simon Van Booy
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