“I know exactly how that is. To love somebody who doesn’t deserve it. Because they are all you have. Because any attention is better than no attention. For exactly the same reason, it is sometimes satisfying to cut yourself and bleed. On those gray days where eight in the morning looks no different from noon and nothing has happened and nothing is going to happen and you are washing a glass in the sink and it breaks- accidentally- and punctures your skin. And then there is this shocking red, the brightest thing in the day, so vibrant it buzzes, this blood of yours. That is okay sometimes because at least you know you’re alive.”
Augusten Burroughs.
"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye."
— Jim Henson.
"A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little ocurage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort."
— Sydney Smith
"We’re fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance."
— Japanese Proverb
"The follies which a man regrets most in his life are those which he didn’t commit when he had the opportunity."
— Helen Rowland
"Now is the time to get drunk! To stop being the martyred slaves of time, to get absolutely drunk- on wine, poetry, or on virtue, as you please."
— Charles Baudelaire
"Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live."
— Nicolas de Chamfort
"Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live"
— Margaret Fuller
