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Life Quotes by Augusten Burroughs
- The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. It's not enough to think about writing or to study literature or plan…
- Women smirk at baldness. How adorable would they find it if they began to lose their breasts in their late twenties? If both tits just…
- Because I've lived in one room my entire life, working at the same table that you use to pay bills at and eat at. It's…
- But my favorite band is Curbside Life, out of Chicago.
- I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.
- Sometimes when you work in advertising you'll get a product that's really garbage and you have to make it seem fantastic, something that is essential…
- I did not consider him to be any kind of a genius. I considered him deeply lacking in the area that mattered most in life.…
- Life would be fabric-softener, tuna-salad-on-white, PTA-meeting normal.
- I told myself, 'All I want is a normal life'. But was that true? I wasn't so sure. Because there was a part of me…
- While I liked hamsters, too, the Habitrail cage was expensive. Even I could see that the interconnecting boxes, tubes, and spheres could easily bankrupt a…
- I gazed around the room and my eyes stopped dead on a little boy standing in the corner. This was a particularly eerie doll. Life-sized…
- I think part of the reason I'm attracted to Foster is because he's such a mess. I mean, the people I have loved in my…
- The most mortifying fact of my life is something that happened when I was fourteen and I have never admitted to anyone: not to friends…
- Nothing made sense to me anymore. I knew I was young, I knew I was small. But I was worried that I might already be…
- This is how you survive the unsurvivable, this is how you lose that which you cannot bear to lose, this is how you reinvent yourself,…
- Are you one of those people who says on a first date, 'I'm really not in a hurry to meet somebody, I figure if it…
- Optimism sprouts from the knowledge that you are in control of your own life, not your past and not those around you. Part of being…
- Any damage that's been done, you have to fix yourself because it needs fixing and there is nobody else to do the work. Blame may…
- So we can be filled with holes and loss and wide expanses of unhealed geography - and we can also be excited by life and…
- If you hate your life, you haven't' seen enough of it. If you hate your life, it's because your life is too small and doesn't'…
- The most valuable moments and experiences that life has to offer are found only along its most treacherous paths.
- There is no shame in being hungry for another person. There is no shame in wanting very much to share your life with somebody.
- Decisions are beautiful. They are the evidence of thought and care. Decisions are the polishing cloths of life.
- No matter how huge your loss, as long as you remain engaged with your life, the best days of your life may still be ahead…
More Life Quotes
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle