Look for verbs of muscle, adjectives of exactitude.
Tell me what it is you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? When it's over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride, married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms. Instructions for living a life: pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.
What I have done is learn to love and learn to be loved. That didn't come easy.
Around me the trees stir in their leaves and call out, Stay awhile.
To find a new word that is accurate and different, you have to be alert for it.
In college, you learn how to learn. Four years is not too much time to spend at that.