• "Find what you love and let it kill you." (Bukowski)
• "Anything that gets your blood racing is probably worth doing." (Thompson)
• “Faster, Faster, until the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death.” (Thompson)
• “Some may never live, but the crazy never die.” (Thompson)
• Live for story, but live in the present.
• Believe in your own mythos.
• Appreciate the ephemeral nature of each moment as you are experiencing it.
• "Sleep late, have fun, get wild, drink whiskey and drive fast on empty streets with nothing in mind but falling in love and not getting arrested." (Thompson)
• “Life’s journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting ‘Holy shit…what a ride." Thompson)
• “One reason we struggle with insecurity: we’re comparing our behind the scenes to everyone else’s highlight reel.” (Furtick)
• "One has to kill a few of one’s natural selves to let the rest grow — a very painful slaughter of innocents." (Sidgwick)
• There is no one true self. You are always a different person than you were yesterday. You are a different person in the eyes of others. You evolve. You change.
• "Hate is baggage. Life's too short to be pissed off all the time. It's just not worth it." (American History X)
• "I don't think that there's anything worse than being ordinary." (American Beauty)
• “I don't want to die without any scars.” (Palahniuk)
• “We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.” (Palahniuk)
• “The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.” (Palahniuk)
• “We can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are. Sane or insane. Saints or sex addicts. Heroes or victims. Letting history tell us how good or bad we are. Letting our past decide our future. Or we can decide for ourselves. And maybe it's our job to invent something better.” (Palahniuk)
• "Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself." (Shaw)
• "Life is like the surf, so give yourself away like the sea." (Y Tu Mamá También)
• “I'm not running away, I'm moving on.” (Welsh)
• “You were what you were and you are what you are. Fuck that regrets bullshit.” (Welsh)
• “This is what being alive's all about, all those fucked up feelings. You've got to have them; when you stop, watch out.” (Welsh)
• “It was the books I started reading. It was the music I started listening to. It was the television I started watching. I found myself thinking again. I tried to stop because it was only causing pain. I couldn't. Wen all this is in your head it has to come out into your life. If it doesn't, you get crushed. I'm not going to get crushed.” (Welsh)
• “Try again. Fail again. Fail better.” (Beckett)
• “There is scarcely any passion without struggle.” (Camus)
• “He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch.” (Godard)
• “And I thought about how many people have loved those songs. And how many people got through a lot of bad times because of those songs. And how many people enjoyed good times with those songs. And how much those songs really mean. I think it would be great to have written one of those songs. I bet if I wrote one of them, I would be very proud. I hope the people who wrote those songs are happy. I hope they feel it's enough. I really do because they've made me happy. And I'm only one person.” (Chbosky)
• “the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.” (Kerouac)
• “What is that feeling when you're driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? - it's the too-huge world vaulting us, and it's good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.” (Kerouac)
• “Houses are full of things that gather dust” (Kerouac)
• “I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted.” (Kerouac)
• “I'm writing this book because we're all going to die.” (Kerouac)
• “Pain or love or danger makes you real again.” (Kerouac)

$ "It was worth it just to learn some slight of hand." (Modest Mouse)

• "The prince of any failing empire knows that everybody wants to drive on through the night, if it's the drive back home" (Fall Out Boy)
• "Later, much later, back in Paris, each harrowing ordeal will become an adventure. For some idiotic reason, your most horrific experiences are the stories you most love to tell." (L'Auberge Espagnole)
• "They say we are what we are But we don't have to be. I'm bad behavior but I do it in the best way." (Fall Out Boy)