inspiration

"Light tomorrow with today!"

"Love art in yourself, and not yourself in art."

"Forgiveness is God's greatest gift"

"The Universe doesn't like secrets. It conspires to reveal the truth, to lead you to it."

"What is demanded of man is not, as some existential philosophers teach, to endure the meaninglessness of life, but rather to bear his incapacity to grasp its unconditional meaningfulness in rational terms."

"Stop in somebody's shadow to rest and cool down, and you are lost. No one can make anyone else happy."

"Every moment of light and dark is a miracle."

"I give myself a good cry if I need it. But then I concentrate on the good things still in my life. I don't allow myself any more self-pity than that. A little each every morning, a few tears, and that's all."

"Men are from Earth, women are from Earth. Deal with it."

"That's the trouble with loving a wild thing: You're always left watching the door."

"[The decay of Logic results from an] untroubled assumption that the particular is real and the universal is not."

"The problem with thick skin is that it leaves you impervious to the sharpest of pins. Everything becomes dull. But without that sense of pain, there cannot be that sense of relief. Ultimately, the thickened skin leaves you numb, incapable of feeling the highs and lows of life. It leaves you rough like a rock and just as inanimate."

"Their Maker, she said, gives them the sky to carry because they are strong. These people do not know who they are, but if you see a lot of trouble in your life, it is because you were chosen to carry part of the sky on your head. -pg. 25"

"You never fail until you stop trying."

"Give up to grace. The ocean takes care of each wave 'til it gets to shore. You need more help than you know."

"I don’t want to freeze my eggs. I don’t want to visit a sperm bank. I don’t want to be a single parent, if I have any choice in the matter. I want a nuclear family. I want to put down roots, to let my seeds germinate, to watch them bloom and flourish. Not one day, if and when I ever fall in love again, but now. While I still have my youth, damn it."

"Actually, writers have no business writing about their own works. They either wax conceited, saying things like: 'My brilliance is possibly most apparent in my dazzling short story, "The Cookiepants Hypotenuse."' Or else they get unbearably cutesy: 'My cat Ootsywootums has given me all my best ideas, hasn't oo, squeezums?"

"Life doesn’t get easier or more forgiving, we get stronger and more resilient."

"We don't make mistakes, just happy little accidents."

"You don't know, oh, ohYou don't know you're beautiful."