I'm almost never serious, and I’m always too serious. Too deep, too shallow. Too sensitive, too cold hearted. I’m like a collection of paradoxes. — Ferdinand de Saussure.

People do not seem to realise that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character. — Ralph Waldo Emerson.

When I was young, I used to admire intelligent people; as I grow older, I admire kind people. — Abraham Joshua Heschel.

I hope one day, you choke on all the shit you talk.— Lim Sungbin.

You must see with eyes unclouded by hate. See the good in that which is evil, and the evil in that which is good. Pledge yourself to neither side, but vow instead to preserve the balance that exists between the two. — Hayao Miyazaki.

People say to you, you've changed, or something like that, well, I hope, for the sake of God that you have changed, because I don’t want to be the same person all my life. I want to be growing, I want to be expanding. I want to be changing. Because animate things change, inanimate things don’t change. Dead things don’t change. And the heart should be alive, it should be changing, it should be moving, it should be growing, its knowledge should be expanding. — Shaykh Hamza Yusuf.

Any self-definition is a self-limitation. To define yourself is to limit your understanding of yourself. To define yourself is to box yourself into this or that category. To define yourself is to finish your understanding of yourself. To define yourself is to end your curiosity about yourself. — Pavel G. Somov.

Admit it. You aren't like them. You're not even close. You may occasionally dress yourself up as one of them, watch the same mindless television shows as they do, maybe even eat the same fast food sometimes. But it seems that the more you try to fit in, the more you feel like an outsider, watching the "normal people" as they go about their automatic existences. For every time you say club passwords like Have a nice day and Weather’s awful today, eh?, you yearn inside to say forbidden things like Tell me something that makes you cry or What do you think deja vu is for? Face it, you even want to talk to that girl in the elevator. But what if that girl in the elevator (and the balding man who walks past your cubicle at work) are thinking the same thing? Who knows what you might learn from taking a chance on conversation with a stranger? Everyone carries a piece of the puzzle. Nobody comes into your life by mere coincidence. Trust your instincts. Do the unexpected. Find the others. — Timothy Leary.

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary. — Steve Jobs.

At first, we started slow, we started real slow. And you know that's all right, that's okay, because sometimes in life, you're gonna start slow, that's okay. No matter what the score was, we're gonna finish hard, we're gonna finish fast. Yeah, they had us the first half, i'm not going to lie. They had us. They had us. We were undefeated, but they had us. But it took guts, it took an attitude. That's all it takes. That's all it takes to be successful is an attitude! And that's what our coach told us. He said, he said, hey, it's gonna be tough. It's gonna be hard. You're going to go out there, you're going to battle, you're going to fight, you're going to do it for one another. Do it for each other. You're going to do it for yourself, you're going to do it for us, and you're going to come out with this win. And we believed that, we truly did. — Apollos Hester