#life

"I just want to do something that matters. Or be something that matters. I just want to matter."

"Sometimes it’s heartbreaking to see your siblings as the people they’ve become. Maybe that’s why we all stay away from each other as a matter of course."

"Remember that life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away!"

"We're all made of stories. When they finally put us underground, the stories are what will go on. Not forever, perhaps, but for a time. It's a kind of immortality, I suppose, bounded by limits, it's true, but then so's everything."

"When we fail to set boundaries and hold people accountable, we feel used and mistreated. This is why we sometimes attack who they are, which is far more hurtful than addressing a behavior or a choice."

"Personal branding is important to me as a person. It’s also important to me as a non-person. I am a rock."

"There's more to life than success, and if you can try to be more well-rounded, you'll be able to enjoy your success more. It won't own you or control you."

"The spirit of a man is constructed out of his choices."

"Grateful [10w] + [10w] If you can't think of anything you should be grateful for,think that you can think and be grateful for that."

"To invent your own life's meaning is not easy, but it's still allowed, and I think you'll be happier for the trouble."

"Most of life is so dull it is not worth discussing, and it is dull at all ages. When we change our brand of cigarette, move to a new neighborhood, subscribe to a different newspaper, fall in and out of love, we are protesting in ways both frivolous and deep against the not to be diluted dullness of day-to-day living."

"The reason many people in our society are miserable, sick, and highly stressed is because of an unhealthy attachment to things they have no control over."

"The Bard's Haikus about Haiku Listen to Shakespeare,'Iambic pentameterand haiku don't mix.'A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise mannever writes haiku.If you tickle usdon't we laugh? If you wrong usshall we not haiku?The good men dolives after them; the evil'sinterred with haikus.Some are born great, some achieve greatness, some scribblesome shitty haikus."

"Like a running blaze on a plain, like a flash of lightning in the clouds. We live in the flicker."

"That is the hardest thing of all. It is much harder to judge yourself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself, it's because you're truly a wise man."

"Everyone is in such a hurry. People haven’t found meaning in their lives, so they’re running all the time looking for it. They think the next car, the next house, the next job. Then they find those things are empty, too, and they keep running. Once you start running, it’s hard to slow yourself down."

"I would like to be a one-man multinational fashion phenomenon."

"Lies vs. Truth [10w] I can only speak truth if I lie to myself."

"Committees [10w] A committee sits in a rectangle and talks in circles."

"nothing in this world was more difficult than love."