"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself."
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"You lose nothing when fighting for a cause ... In my mind the losers are those who don't have a cause they care about."
"Stay gold, Ponyboy, stay gold."
"I think it's difficult to do fashion for men, because either you become very over-homosexual fashion or very boring fashion. You don't want a boy who looks 15 in a little pair of shorts with some strange art... But to see just a jacket and tie is boring."
"We carry about us the burden of what thousands of people have said and the memories of all our misfortunes. To abandon all that is to be alone, and the mind that is alone is not only innocent but young -- not in time or age, but young, innocent, alive at whatever age -- and only such a mind can see that which is truth and that which is not measurable by words."
"Maybe mistakes are what make our fate... without them what would shape our lives? Maybe if we had never veered off course we wouldn't fall in love, have babies, or be who we are. After all, things change, so do cities, people come into your life and they go. But it's comforting to know that the ones you love are always in your heart... and if you're very lucky, a plane ride away"
"I meant what I said and I said what I meant. An elephant's faithful one-hundred percent!"
"Success means we go to sleep at night knowing that our talents and ablities were used in a way that served others."
"You are born with the power to change your life by simply changing your thoughts."
"She seems so cool, so focused, so quiet, yet her eyes remain fixed upon the horizon. You think you know all there is to know about her immediately upon meeting her, but everything you think you know is wrong. Passion flows through her like a river of blood. She only looked away for a moment, and the mask slipped, and you fell. All your tomorrows start here."
"He prays because he knows he doesn't control it. He's at the mercy of it."
"I'm about to make a wild, extreme and severe relationship rule: the word busy is a load of crap and is most often used by assholes. The word "busy"is the relationship Weapon of Mass Destruction. It seems like a good excuse, but in fact in every silo you uncover, all you're going to find is a man who didn't care enough to call. Remember men are never to busy to get what they want."
"Well, that's an evil smile..."
"Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other."
"Ask yourself the secret of your success. Listen to your answer, and practice it."
"In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team."
"My grandma always said that God made libraries so that people didn't have any excuse to be stupid."
"A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems. And not only so. It gives a relish, and facility, for successfully pursuing the [yet] unsolved ones."
"Truth is beauty"
"Your life is always under construction. It is your job to learn howto untangle the threads and weave a tapestry that matches your desires."
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