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“It is not so much that they fear the risk of committing themselves as that they basically do not understand what commitment is all about. Because their parents failed to commit themselves to them as children in any meaningful way, the grew up without experience of commitment. Commitment for them rep…”

— M. Scott Peck,, The Road Less Traveled, Timeless Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth

“Sometimes doing what's right for your conscience is not always the most popular decision, but I can guarantee that in retrospect you won't regret the choice you made.”

— Tyler Oakley, Binge

“In every community, some people will fit every stereotype, and some people will fit no stereotypes, and both are valid representations for that community.”

— Tyler Oakley, Binge

“I was taught that being myself was not only okay, but encouraged - and by being unapologetically yourself, you thrive and inspire others to thrive.”

— Tyler Oakley, Binge

“Every relationship ends, unless one doesn't. And everything we've learned from the relationships leading up to that last one has been the training we needed to make that final one last.”

— Tyler Oakley, Binge

“Sure relationships include arguments, but pain is not a side-effect of love.”

— Tyler Oakley, Binge

“Know what you like, know what makes you happy, stick with your guns, and state it with confidence.”

— Connor Franta, A Work in Progress: A Memoir

“I refuse to hope things will get better in the future when I have complete control over making them the best possible right here and now.”

— Connor Franta, A Work in Progress: A Memoir

“People are beautiful. All people, of all shapes and sizes. The fact that we are living, breathing organisms that happen to have opposable thumbs, allowing us to pick up our phones and be on it for the entire damn day, is nothing short of brilliant. What makes us even more magnificent as a species is…”

— Connor Franta, A Work in Progress: A Memoir

“This is the only face and body you're ever going to get, so be comfortable and happy in it. Own it. Own every aspect of who you are and present it to the world with the utmost pride.”

— Connor Franta, A Work in Progress: A Memoir

“Question: Why does life have to feel like such a struggle at times? Answer: Because without the struggle, the triumphs wouldn’t taste as sweet.”

— Connor Franta, A Work in Progress: A Memoir

“Alone also means available for someone outstanding.”

— Greg Behrendt, It's Called a Breakup Because It's Broken: The Smart Girl's Break-Up Buddy

“Girls can be athletic. Guys can have feelings. Girls can be smart. Guys can be creative. And vice versa. Gender is specific only to your reproductive organs (and sometimes not even to those), not your interest, likes, dislikes, goals, and ambitions.”

— Connor Franta, A Work in Progress: A Memoir

“We know what conscious experience is because the having is the knowing: Having conscious experience is knowing what it is. You don’t have to think about it (it’s really much better not to). You just have to have it. It’s true that people can make all sorts of mistakes about what is going on when the…”

— Galen Strawson, Consciousness Isn’t a Mystery. It’s Matter.

“In the common conception, solutions to evil require retribution, and the most obvious way to achieve retribution is through violence. Responses, on the other hand, engender what Ricoeur calls ‘wisdom,’ an unwavering commitment to relieve and prevent suffering. Any violence used in a response to evil…”

— Steven Paulikas, How Should We Respond to ‘Evil’?

“We conceive of evil through the realm of myth, or grand narratives that express common human experience. Myth is not false; rather, it encapsulates truth about subjects like evil that cannot be perceived fully through reason alone. In this sense, ‘the axis of evil’ is, arguably, a kind of myth, an e…”

— Steven Paulikas, How Should We Respond to ‘Evil’?

“Evil is not a thing per se, but rather exists in a sort of black hole of thought, an aporia. This fact alone complicates arguments for the destruction of evil: how do you obliterate something that has no substance?”

— Steven Paulikas, How Should We Respond to ‘Evil’?

“I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our more stupid propensities, for is there anything more stupid than to be eager to go on carrying a burden which one would gladly throw away, to loathe one’s very being…”

— Voltaire, Candide

“The best fashion show is definitely on the street. Always has been. Always will be.”

— Bill Cunningham, via Tumblr

“All the people who tell the truth are in the last rows.”

— Bill Cunningham, Bill Cunningham Thought Every New Yorker Was Worth Photographing