life

"if i'm going to fuck up my life, does it really matter which way i do it?."

"Life’s too short to drink crappy coffee and cry over boys who don’t care."

"The difference between school and life? In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson."

"Obscurity and a competence—that is the life that is best worth living."

"There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives."

"I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got."

"Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak."

"A learning experience is one of those things that says, 'You know that thing you just did? Don't do that."

"You have every right to a beautiful life."

"A lot of us grow up and we grow out of the literal interpretation that we get when we're children, but we bear the scars all our life. Whether they're scars of beauty or scars of ugliness, it's pretty much in the eye of the beholder."

"I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life."

"It's everybody, I mean. Everything everybody does is so — I don't know — not wrong, or even mean, or even stupid necessarily. But just so tiny and meaningless and — sad-making. And the worst part is, if you go bohemian or something crazy like that, you're conforming just as much only in a different way."

"Sometimes the right thing feels all wrong until it is over and done with."

"Loud is a way of life."

"Networking is drinking the nectar of interconnectedness. And I’ve been drinking since noon, so I may need @ryanlilly to drive me home."

"There’s truth in only having a bicycle seat. I used to skip class and just hold it out in the hallway. When teachers would ask me what I was doing, I’d hold it up and say, “Sorry I’m late."

"Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been."

"Life is to be enjoyed, not endured"

"I collect art, and I drink wine... things that I like that I had never been exposed to. But I never said, 'I'm going to buy art to impress this crowd.' That's just ridiculous to me. I don't live my life like that, because how could you be happy with yourself?"

"Hope like that, as I thought before, doesn’t make you a weak person. It’s hopelessness that makes you weak. Hope makes you stronger, because it brings with it a sense of reason. Not a reason for how or why they were taken from you, but a reason for you to live. Because it’s a maybe. A ‘maybe someday things won’t always be this shit.’ And that ‘maybe’ immediately makes the shittiness better."