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- The useless days will add up to something. The shitty waitressing jobs. The hours writing in your journal. The long meandering walks. The hours reading…
- And every last one of us can do better than give up.
- When I woke the next morning in my room at White's Motel, I showered and stood naked in front of the mirror, watching myself solemnly…
- The people who don’t give up are the people who find a way to believe in abundance rather than scarcity.
- We are all at risk of something. Of ending up exactly where we began, of failing to imagine and find and know and actualize who…
- Self-pity is a dead-end road. You make the choice to drive down it. It's up to you to decide to stay parked there or to…
- My concept of an advice giver had been a therapist or a know-it-all, and then I realized nobody listens to the know-it-alls. You turn to…
- My mother's death put me in touch with my most savage self. As I've grown up and come to terms with her death and accepted…
- Blood is thicker than water, my mother had always said when I was growing up, a sentiment I’d often disputed. But it turned out that…
- Forgiveness doesn't sit there like a pretty boy in a bar. Forgiveness is the old fat guy you have to haul up a hill.
- One Christmas at the very beginning of your twenties when your mother gives you a warm coat that she saved for months to buy, don’t…
- Most things will be okay eventually, but not everything will be. Sometimes you'll put up a good fight and lose. Sometimes you'll hold on really…
- What’s important is that you make the leap. Jump high and hard with intention and heart. Pay no mind to the vision that the commission…
- If, as a culture, we don’t bear witness to grief, the burden of loss is placed entirely upon the bereaved, while the rest of us…
- Nobody's going to do your life for you. You have to do it yourself, whether you're rich or poor, out of money or raking it…
More Up Quotes
- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can… — Hannah Arendt
- I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up… — J. J. Abrams
- All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. — Aristotle
- Growing up, my ideals were Barbra Streisand, Cher, and my mom. — Kevyn Aucoin
- When I was growing up, the men in my life were abusive; women were the ones I ran to for comfort. — Kevyn Aucoin
- Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see… — Paul Auster
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside… — Diane Ackerman
- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- Get this in mind early: We never grow up. — Richard Bach
- People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they've grown old. — Billie Joe Armstrong