"You are who you choose to be. It's not what happens to you that makes you who you are, but what you choose to do with it." -Dean Trippe

"A real loser is someone who's so afraid of not winning he doesn't even try." -Little Miss Sunshine

"Look at you. You're young. And you're scared. Why are you so scared? Stop being paralyzed! Stop swallowing your words. Stop caring what other people think. Wear what you want. Say what you want. Listen to the music you want to listen to. Play it loud as fuck and dance to it. Go out for a drive at midnight and forget you have work in the morning. Stop waiting for Friday. Live now. Do it now. Take risks. Tell secrets. This life is yours."

"To experience ourselves in such a way that we can say that our real body is not just what is inside the skin but our whole external environment. because if we don't experience ourselves in that way, we mistreat our environment, we treat it as an enemy. we try to beat it into submission. and if we do that, comes disaster."

"If someone else wanted to have your job some day, what advice would you give them? The word that’s coming up is “surrender,” like really surrender your ideas of who you are and how you’re going to do it and then do it. Don’t spend too much time thinking about the strategy of it. If you want to be a writer, write something. If you want to be a director, direct something. Figure it out and do it, not because that’s going to lead to something, but because you need to do it. You need to have the experience of doing it and the more that you can actually have the experience of doing it, the more you’ll know whether or not you’re fit for it as a career."

"Be something you love and understand" -Lynyrd Skynyrd, Simple Man

"The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others." -Albert Schweitzer

"I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure, which is: Try to please everybody." -Herbert Swope

"Two things that keep us from living: fear of loss; hope of gain" -mi Padre

"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." ~Henry David Thoreau

"You have this one life. How do you wanna spend it? Apologizing? Regretting? Questioning? Hating yourself? Dieting? Running after people who don't see you? Be brave. Believe in yourself. Do what feels good. Take risks. You have this one life. Make yourself proud." -Beardsley Jones

"You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist." -Friedrich Nietzsche

"Do one thing every day that scares you." -Eleanor Roosevelt

"You are something the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is something that the whole ocean is doing." -Alan Watts

"Everything you do in life will be insignificant, but it's very important that you do it." -Mahatma Ghandi

"People always say when you have nothing, you somehow have everything.

That's not true.

You have nothing, except options. You have the option to continue on or you have the option to throw the pieces of your life up in the air, again, and see what happens when they fall over the place.

The good news is, they will fall, eventually, into some kind of mangled and jumbled and dysfunctional place.

But they will somehow make sense, like a personal inside joke, and make you laugh and make you realize the key to life is to be resilient and up for a new adventure, always, and totally and completely unsure of who you are supposed to be and what will happen next."

"We define ourselves by the best that is in us, not the worst that has been done to us.” ― Edward Lewis

"Don't light yourself on fire trying to brighten someone elses existence."

“And there comes a time in your life when you realize that if you don't take the opportunity to be happy, you may never get another chance again.”

― Richard Russo, Empire Falls

“Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.” ― Abraham Lincoln