Or Something. Quotes

Maybe we guzzle forty stories with every breath we draw and they soak into us and flavor and thicken and spice the wild stew we are.

The huge problems we deal with every day are actually really small. We’re so focused on what bothers usthat we don’t even try to see our lives from a clearer perspective.

If you aren't outraged, then you just aren't paying attention

Stay focused

When God lays His finger on your heart it cannot help but be filled with love for others

You know that old saying about home being where the heart is? I don’t think that refers to your own. It’s the hearts of other people, the ones you love, that makes a home.

I'm aware of how unprofessional this is and yet I can't stop myself.

There was no heaven here. Eternal life meant waking up as a putrid corpse.

The fault is not in our stars, " I whispered to the ceiling. "But in ourselves. This was my choice.

Every choice we make affects the other. It always has… We share our choices and our burdens. But that way neither of us has to carry the weight alone—You have never been alone.

Don't allow life to pass you by because you are afraid of [looking] stupid.

Hate is a lot like love. It's warm and fills you up until every part of you is tingling to release it.

You know those primitive tribal people who believed a camera could steal your soul? Turns out they were right.

This night felt like a last hurrah, like we could blaze our brightest, at the apex of our insane adolescence. This was our Mardi Gras before the dark days of Lent.

He looks like the kind of boy who would jump trains, strum guitars, and pass a joint.

You can't screw up your own suicide and then expect the universe to give you presents wrapped in the skin of a wonderful boy. That's just not the way it works.

The past is past. You tried to kill yourself. So what? I humped a couch in season twelve. We all have our skeletons.

I glance over at him

Opportunities will come and go, but if you do nothing about them, so will you.

The cup is both half full and half empty

You're not a tree. So move

The demon blood inside me burned my soul to ashes long ago.I am a monster who once dreamed he was a man. Never mistakeme again.

Depreciating motels, junked automobiles, and quick-food joints grow like amber waves of grain.

You do not necessarily lose concentration

All people want to live dignified live

Bread – like real love – took time, cultivation, strong loving hands and patience. It lived, rising and growing to fruition only under the most perfect circumstances.

I found something! Courage--just that

Dear God, please help me to be the kind of person who my dogs think I am.

...you belong here, and it’s time you realize it. No one put a Scarlet A on your chest. This church is for human beings, not saints and angels.

Fear is the freaky troll under the bridge that leads to achievement.

Health, wealth, reputation, and status are all mere ingredients of happiness. The key to true well-being is being able to manage them capably.

The successful have the courage to walk each day toward something

The key ingredient in engaging the power available from service is motive.

It's an innocent kiss at first. Soft lips meeting

When you connect to a compelling cause you feel all your inner resources has been targeted to help you achieve your cause.

The beautiful thing having a vision for life is it adds energy, enthusiasm, winning spirit, patience, dedication and productive inner qualities in you.

I guess I should have known back then. All the guys after him only left flesh wounds. Benjamin managed to get into my bones on day one.

True love

Love

I begin the chapter and book on very elementary reasoning and a simple description: this description of relationships developed naturally and socially

Good writing is true writing. If a man is making a story up it will be true in proportion to the amount of knowledge of life that he has and how conscientious he is

Responsibility is definitely not something you feel

Some political leaders in the world make big mistakes but they never resign

I guess we're all composed of a lot of mistakes

She'd grown up believing in hell in an abstract nightmare way

When we leverage, we aggregate and organize existing resources to achieve success.

An idea is something you have

Ideas won't keep

Every class has pupils who mimic the teachers particularly well and perform for their classmates

I realize thirty is just a number, that you're only as old as you feel and all that. I also realize that in the grand scheme of things, thirty is still young. But it's not that young.