Taste their sweetness.

'Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will break you with its yearning. 
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 to be swallowed up.
And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed or left, or hurt, or death brushes you 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 - The Painted Drum
 (Women Who Run With The Moon)

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