Life begets life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich. Sarah Bernhardt 64. Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
Life is to be lived.
If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around wondering about yourself. I'm just going to write because I cannot help it. It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger for them.