And there are people that will stand in your corner and convince you to stand up for another round no matter what.

Just because today is a terrible day doesn't mean tomorrow might not be the best day of your entire life. You just have to wake up and get there

Always bet on yourself, no matter what the odds are. It means more to be in the race than watching the victory lap from the stands.

The hardest thing about depression is that it is addictive. It begins to feel uncomfortable not to be depressed. You feel guilty for feeling happy.

Music never leaves you alone, and punk rock will always be there when nothing else will.

Everyone you idolize wakes up scared to be themselves sometimes.

Our brains may lie to us, but our hearts never do.

Sometimes when it looks like I'm deep in thought I'm just trying not to have a conversation with people.

It takes knowledge to know something. It takes guts to do what you know.

Being surrounded by six Brendons is so not fun.

We are dreamers. We worship love, we hope against hope and toss practicality out the window.

One of the greatest gifts from God is the eternal perspective. It is a level of fearlessness, a level of understanding where one can experience even emotional harmony with God.

Had life not given me reasons to grieve, I would never have known the healing power of a hug.

legal declaration by God through Jesus Christ!

Debauchery conceived of as a kind of ascetic experience is not new, either for men or for women, but until Story of O no woman to my knowledge had said it.

The holy man is beyond time, he does not depend on any view nor subscribe to any sect; all current theories he understands, but he remains unattached to any of them.

I have ended as a Reform Rabbi, grateful to Christianity for so many good things.

In our long and obsessive passion for youth, we have - more than any other modern society - avoided direct approach to age and to dying by denying them in word, in fact, and - above all - in worth.

My boyfriend thinks I lost my true calling to be a librarian.

Technology is constantly changing and brings you automatically into the present. In that way, it automatically makes you build for this time.

To manage one must lead. To lead, one must understand the work that he and his people are responsible for