“Maybe I’d just buy a few, maybe just the $40 probiotic mist to balance and restore my facial microbiome.”— Amy Larocca, thecut.com
“It used to be a butcher, a baker, and a hardware store. Now it’s SoulCycle, Juice Press, and a meditation place.”— Cristina Greeven, thecut.com
“Rich and beautiful people don’t just go to nicer places, their organs work better.”— Amy Larocca, thecut.com
“One of the most fascinating lessons I've absorbed about life is that the struggle is good. You can't know tomorrow, because if you did you would never go about trying to create it the same way. The uncertainty and doubt that fuck with our minds are the same forces that make accomplishments and achie…”— Joe Rogan, reddit.com
“I’ve got plenty of writer friends who’ve gotten bigger and better reviews. And then there are folks who would likely look at me and say I was ahead of them. But the truth is the sun shines on all of us and the rain falls on all of us and we all die, so let’s just skip over the part where you stew fo…”— Sara Benincasa, medium.com
“I believe that today we're facing a psychological epidemic, one in which people no longer realize it's okay for things to suck sometimes.”— Mark Manson, amazon.com
“You can't be an important and life-changing presence for some people without being a joke and an embarrassment to others. You just can't.”— Mark Manson, amazon.com
“The desire for more positive experience is itself a negative experience. And, paradoxically, the acceptance of one's negative experience is itself a positive experience.”— Mark Manson, amazon.com
“Self improvement and success often occur together. But that doesn't mean they're the same thing.”— Mark Manson, amazon.com
“The genius in Bukowski's work was not in overcoming unbelievable odds or developing himself into a shining literary light. It was the opposite. It was his simple ability to be completely, unflinchingly honest with himself -- especially the worst parts of himself -- and to share his failings without…”— Mark Manson, amazon.com
“Mark Twain, another American icon, is a great example of this. His fans loved him during his lifetime because he shared his constant imperfection and evolution, along with his changeless trademark wit. The comfortable, frizzy-haired, cigar-toting wisecracker in a white suit dates only from the very…”— Beth Comstock, medium.com
“Is an eagle and a salmon level? Does the salmon ever get to eat the eagle? No. The universe does not want even! It wants conflict and resolution and constant improvement. Okay?”— Joe Rogan, imdb.com
“We know from myths and fairy tales that there are many different kinds of powers in this world. One child is given a light saber, another a wizard’s education. The trick is not to amass all the different kinds of power, but to use well the kind you’ve been granted.”— Susan Cain, amazon.com
“Each of you is perfect the way you are... and you could use a little improvement!”— Suzuki-roshi, amazon.com
“Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.”— Maria Robinson, amazon.com
“These college visits highlighted just how all over the place I was. Getting flown to different places because people thought I had something worthwhile to say, had some kind of wisdom to impart when, in reality, I couldn’t do something as simple as spend a whole night at someone’s apartment.”— Ryan O'Connell, mylivejournalsucks.tumblr.com
“I've spent 45 minutes putting my outfit together this morning and have brought my SLR camera to lunch, just so we can perfectly capture how casual and spontaneous I look today.”— Michael Buchinger, vice.com
“Well I'm 34 now. If I don't make it by the time I'm 60 I'm just going to give myself 10 more years.”— Charles Bukowski, amazon.com
“I turn the novel in. I go out to a celebration dinner with a very normal guy I have somehow fallen into dating. I pick at a whole fish and order dessert. I make bathroom visits devoted solely to dropping benzodiazepine crumbs under my tongue, licking any residue off my finger. The novel made it, but…”— Porochista Khakpour, amazon.com
“The only problem was, Church, even the Catholic Church, didn't take up the whole of your life No matter how much you knelt and prayed, you still had to eat three meals a day and have a job and live in the world.”— Sylvia Plath, amazon.com