Don't let the fear of being rejected compromise your values.
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Quotes tagged ‘Life’
It's not who you know. It's who you know once you know what you need to know.
Surround yourself with people who push you to be the person you say you want to be.
Something might happen, but then again maybe nothing. I haven't opened it yet, so I don't know. You can't know until you open it.
I'm scared. As I told you, I'm completely empty. Do you know what it means to be completely empty? . . . Being empty is like a vacant house. An unlocked, vacant house. Anybody can come in, anytime they want. That's what scares me the most.
Being in your 20s means you get to be a little selfish. You get to figure out what you want, and chase after it.
But if you look at it like that, we're all pretty much empty, don't you think? You eat, take a dump, do your crummy job for your lousy pay, and get laid occasionally, if you're lucky . . . Still you know, interesting things do happen in life.
I knew life was pointless, but I couldn't give up.
I'm not trying to die. I'm just waiting for death to come. Like sitting on a bench at the station, waiting for the train.
Whether you come to a place to live or to die, the things you do every day are about the same.
Necessity is an independent concept . . . Its function lies entirely in the role it plays. What doesn't play a role shouldn't exist. What necessity requires does need to exist. That's what you call dramaturgy.
Listen, every object's in flux. The Earth, time, concepts, love, life, faith, justice, evil—they're all fluid and in transition. They don't stay in one form or in one place forever.
Sometimes you have to get in trouble--good trouble, necessary trouble--to make a way out of no way.
Do not get lost in a sea of despair. Be hopeful, be optimistic. Our struggle is not the struggle of a day, a week, a month, or a year, it is the struggle of a lifetime. Never, ever be afraid to make some noise and get in good trouble, necessary trouble.
When I give, I give myself.
Human beings are such knotted, desperate pieces of work- it’s a rare thing to know one completely, to the core, and still love them.
Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Be curious.
I will live for love and the rest will take care of itself.
I’m bored is a useless thing to say. You live in a great, big, vast world that you’ve seen none percent of. Even the inside of your own mind is endless. It goes on forever, inwardly. Do you understand? The fact that you’re alive is amazing, so you don’t get to say I’m bored.
Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.