“Learn the difference between honesty and being a dick.”— Adam Gnade, amazon.comTagged: Important, Freedom of Speech, Honesty, Making Friends
“Fuck security. Give us the mess. Give us the big splash of life and color and failure. It’s beautiful.”— Adam Gnade, amazon.comTagged: Security, Risk, Failure, Life, danger
“Next time the Big Motherfuckin’ Sad comes calling, don’t pick up the phone.”— Adam Gnade, amazon.comTagged: Depression, Seasonal Depression, Sadness, Motivational
“Change your life until you are who you know you are.”— Adam Gnade, amazon.comTagged: Identity, Change, self awareness, Self Improvement
“Don’t sabotage yourself. There are enough people out there who’ll do it for you. Don’t let the assholes win.”— Adam Gnade, amazon.comTagged: Paranoia, Social Anxiety, Anxiety, Self-Doubt, I Hate Myself
“I'm a lot more capable than I was led to believe. Fuck the unbelievers in your life. You're as strong and as read as you want.”— Adam Gnade, amazon.comTagged: Self-Love, Believe In Yourself, strength
“If you’re not grappling with self-doubt half the time, you’ve probably lost perspective. The confident ones give us the worst and most lifeless bullshit.”— Adam Gnade, amazon.comTagged: Depression, Social Anxiety, Anxiety, Perspective, Important
“We’re all braver and stronger than we give ourselves credit for.”— Adam Gnade, amazon.comTagged: Inspirational, Motivational, Brave, strength
“You’ve got to be a warlord against your demons and you’ve got to keep your sword sharp. I’m as confused as anybody in regards to the great What It All Means but this is what keeps me here. Life can be a nightmare, pure annihilation and bad days that crush you flat, but I’m sticking around. I plan to…”— Adam Gnade, amazon.comTagged: Mental Health, Resilience, Life
“Adapt until you flourish; confront all obstacles presented until there’s something new. Push forward. Push until it breaks open and shows the golden yolk. Push until you’re walking in the clear, the wind in your face, a clean path before you.”— Adam Gnade, amazon.comTagged: perseverance, Motivational
“Remember: Any decent person will love the weird parts of you best.”— Adam Gnade, amazon.comTagged: Love, Friendship, Relationships
“Shit-talkers are like black mold: They’ll infect you and you might not even know it. you don’t need that darkness in your life. Bitterness will jump from you to them.”— Adam Gnade, amazon.comTagged: Gossip, Negativity, Toxic People
“Don't waste your time with friends you don't love... with anything that doesn’t make you better in its presence.”— Adam Gnade, amazon.comTagged: Toxic Relationships, Bad Friendship, Love Yourself
“If you live with monsters, you’ll become monstrous. This can be good and it can be bad. You need to keep your perspective and know when it’s time to quit a bad scene.”— Adam Gnade, amazon.comTagged: Toxic People, Child Abuse, Abusive Parents
“The best things have always come from the loneliest people.”— Adam Gnade, amazon.comTagged: Depression, Loner, Introvert
“You need the perspective to know that it’s not always going to be this bad. Shit gets better. Then it gets worse. But the fact that it gets better gives me a reason to keep trying.”— Adam Gnade, amazon.comTagged: Perspective, perseverance, Inspirational, Motivational, Push Forward
“Be sweet to a baby and let them know all big people aren’t a) dead inside, b) angry, or c) afraid of adventure.”— Adam Gnade, amazon.comTagged: Random Acts Of Kindness, Parenting
“I’m seeing the circular conversations of stress and fatalism and the bad cycles of self-doubt. It’s all a product of fear. I’m afraid of tomorrow, and I’m afraid of next week and I’m afraid that each choice I make will be the one I’ll look back on and regret forever… life’s a sh*t business sometimes…”— Adam Gnade, amazon.comTagged: Anxiety, Depression, perseverance, Motivational
“I don’t know much for certain but I’m looking for answers and right now I believe this: you push forward today and you push forward tomorrow and every day is your chance to do the things you promised.”— Adam Gnade, wearepioneerspress.tumblr.comTagged: perseverance, Tired of life
“One thing people overlook is that friends can be anywhere. They don’t have to have the same diet or music taste or politics as you. They don’t have to be your age or your color or your class... Making friends can be one of the scariest fucking things you’ll ever do, but once you have them they’ll he…”— Adam Gnade, amazon.comTagged: Friendship, Making Friends, Social Anxiety
“Life is short and lonely and mean but there are good things that make it worth living. The idea is to grab those things when they show up and hold onto them as long as you can.”— Adam Gnade, amazon.comTagged: Life, alive
“Life is water through wet cloth. It’s all trees and sky passing by a car window, and you can never own any of it, no matter how much you want it. The key is to make peace with that and have as much fun as you can without hurting anyone. There’s no meaning of life but there is meaning and life, and i…”— Adam Gnade, amazon.comTagged: Life, The Meaning Of Life, purpose, Acceptance
“When you’re young and you’re writing you shouldn’t try to philosophize and say what everything ‘is’. If you’re any kind of healthy thinker, your definites today will betray you tomorrow. Instead, write how you feel, write those things that you know without fighting to know. Tell your honest, immedia…”— Adam Gnade, lungs-paper-frail.tumblr.comTagged: Writing, writer, Writing Advice
“You’ve got to hold some things close to your heart and love them no matter how your life changes (or how you change). Loving things keeps you grounded. It helps you retain innocence and it lets you hold onto some sense of wonder when the whole world is telling you that you need to get cynical in ord…”— Adam Gnade, amazon.comTagged: Soft, Optimism, Stay Positive
“Remember this: the path toward The Better is nothing but the summation of a million fights, of endless reworking, hard choices made, a list and litany of changes both small and gargantuan.”— Adam Gnade, wearepioneerspress.tumblr.comTagged: Fighting Back, perseverance, Change, Self Improvement
“Most people have this version of themselves they believe is the true version. Now, a lot of the time that version doesn’t line up with what everyone else sees. Maybe you know you’re braver than you’ve been all your life. Maybe you‘re labeled with a gender that doesn’t fit you. We’ve all got discrepa…”— Adam Gnade, amazon.comTagged: Identity, Change, self awareness, Self Improvement
“Basically what it comes down to is I suck at life like how some people are bad pool players or awful cooks but I’m trying to be better.”— Adam Gnade, amazon.comTagged: Life, Loser, Failure
“No one wants to be lonely and no one wants to be with you when you’re lonely.”— Adam Gnade, brickfrickingmaster.tumblr.comTagged: Loneliness, Depression, Companionship, Single
“I’m in a fog and even though I feel like I’m living a good, authentic life, I spend a lot of my life numb. There’s this sleepwalk I do where it’s like I’m under a layer of ice and I slump through the day without any real inner dialogue. It’s like being dead on your feet. Or stuffed with cotton. And…”— Adam Gnade, amazon.comTagged: Seasonal Depression, Depression