Self-esteem is for sissies. Accept that you're a pimple and try to keep a lively sense of humor about it. That way… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
The unhappy person resents it when you try to cheer him up, because that means he has to stop dwelling on himself… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Comedy is deemed inferior to tragedy primarily because of the social prevalence of narcissistic pathology. In other words people who are too… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
The trouble with you is that the only way you can communicate is through art. You’ve never learned to communicate your feelings… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
The goal of this generation's pioneers should be to restrict procreation and limit consumption. They should also take every opportunity to make… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Political activism is seductive because it seems to offer the possibility that one can improve society, make things better, without going through… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
For most people, self-awareness and self-pity blossom simultaneously in early adolescence. It's about that time that we start viewing the world as… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Throughout most of our history, nothing - not flood, famine, plague, or new weapons - has endangered humanity one-tenth as much as… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
The price of self-destiny is never cheap, and in certain situations it is unthinkable. But to achieve the marvelous, it is precisely… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
All depression has its roots in self-pity, and all self-pity is rooted in people taking themselves too seriously. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
There are times when we can feel destiny close around us like a fist around a doorknob. Sure, we can resist. But a knob… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won't adhere to any rules. The most any of us can do is to sign on as… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
The party in Alobar’s head, which agitation and anxiety were throwing, now was crashed by a notion: existence can be rearranged. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
The world is a wonderfully weird place, consensual reality is significantly flawed, no institution can be trusted, certainty is a mirage, security a delusion,… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Anyone who maintains absolute standards of good and evil is dangerous. As dangerous as a maniac with a loaded revolver. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“I believe in everything; nothing is sacred. I believe in nothing; everything is sacred. Ha Ha Ho Ho Hee Hee.” — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won't adhere to any rules. The most any of us can do is to sign on as… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“The glue that holds the natural world together appears to be a harmonious balance of opposites: day and night, light and dark, winter and… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Zippers are primal and modern at the very same time. On the one hand, your zipper is primitive and reptilian, on the other, mechanical… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“religion is a paramount contributor to human misery. It is not merely the opium of the masses, it is the cyanide.” — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
She continued weeping until the heat of her tear water, the sheer velocity of its flow, finally obscured the already vague circumstances of its… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
