Jessica's favorite quotes

"The lower you fall, the higher you'll fly."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club)

"I like it when a flower or a little tuft of grass grows through a crack in the concrete. It's so fuckin' heroic."
— George Carlin

tags: carlin, grass, hero, heroic

46 people liked it

"...the only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Invisible Monsters)

tags: chance, happiness, risk

206 people liked it

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: be-yourself, confidence, individuality, those-who-matter

17,694 people liked it

"Just for the record, the weather today is bitter with occasional fits of jealous rage."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Diary)

56 people liked it

"Every relationship is fundamentally a power struggle, and the individual in power is whoever likes the other person less."
— Chuck Klosterman (Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto)

102 people liked it

"You can only hold a smile for so long, after that it's just teeth."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Invisible Monsters)

tags: smile

56 people liked it

"Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted."
— John Lennon

tags: happiness, procrastination, time

1,620 people liked it

"If you aren't the woman I think you are, then this isn't the world I thought it was."
— Arthur Golden (Memoirs of a Geisha)

tags: geisha, love, memoirs, woman

41 people liked it

"I don't have pet peeves - I have major psychotic fucking hatreds."
— George Carlin

96 people liked it

"Don't do what you want. Do what you don't want. Do what you're trained not to want. Do the things that scare you the most."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Invisible Monsters)

88 people liked it

"Don't sweat the petty things and don't pet the sweaty things."
— George Carlin

89 people liked it

"How come when it’s us, it’s an abortion, and when it’s a chicken, it’s an omelette?"
— George Carlin

tags: abortion

58 people liked it

"Men are from Earth, women are from Earth. Deal with it."
— George Carlin

tags: humor

139 people liked it

"Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?"
— George Carlin

tags: humor

340 people liked it

"Isn’t making a smoking section in a restaurant like making a peeing section in a swimming pool?"
— George Carlin

38 people liked it

"Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why we call it 'The Present'."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: inspirational

4,876 people liked it

"If you judge people, you have no time to love them."
— Mother Teresa

tags: judge, judgemental, love, time

4,095 people liked it

"Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: life

2,886 people liked it

"Your heart is my piñata."
— Chuck Palahniuk

83 people liked it

"My first time I jacked off, I thought I'd invented it. I looked down at my sloppy handful of junk and thought, This is going to make me rich."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Choke)

tags: sex

93 people liked it

"What we don't understand we can make mean anything."
— Chuck Palahniuk

102 people liked it

"Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education."
— Chuck Palahniuk

tags: education, game-shows

122 people liked it

"Have your adventures, make your mistakes, and choose your friends poorly -- all these make for great stories."
— Chuck Palahniuk

128 people liked it

"If you love something set it free, but don't be surprised if it comes back with herpes."
— Chuck Palahniuk

tags: humor, love

171 people liked it

"Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Invisible Monsters)

tags: identity, originality

402 people liked it

"The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Invisible Monsters)

tags: life

742 people liked it

"Find out what you're afraid of and go live there."
— Chuck Palahniuk

tags: fear

43 people liked it

"The girl is infectious human waste, and she's confused and afraid to commit to the wrong thing and so she won't commit to anything."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club: A Novel)

tags: marla-singer

21 people liked it

"Could you hold the chainsaw a bit closer to your mouth, please?"
— Chuck Palahniuk

tags: humor

20 people liked it

"Everyone's in their own personal coma."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Diary)

33 people liked it

"Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: life

1,840 people liked it

"...because I rant not, neither rave of what I feel, can you be so shallow as to dream that I feel nothing? "
— R.D. Blackmore (Lorna Doone)

tags: introverts

5 people liked it

"We lead our lives like water flowing down a hill, going more or less in one direction until we splash into something that forces us to find a new course. Page 105"
— Arthur Golden (Memoirs of a Geisha)

tags: geisha, life

18 people liked it

"I could no more have stopped myself from feeling that sadness than you could stop yourself from smelling an apple that has been cut open on the table before you."
— Arthur Golden (Memoirs of a Geisha)

12 people liked it

"Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!"
— Audrey Hepburn

tags: inspirational

523 people liked it

"Here's all you have to know about men and women: women are crazy, men are stupid. And the main reason women are crazy is that men are stupid."
— George Carlin (When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?)

149 people liked it

"...but better to be hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie."
— Khaled Hosseini (The Kite Runner)

tags: life

542 people liked it

"One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs,or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls."
— Khaled Hosseini (A Thousand Splendid Suns)

54 people liked it

"Get busy living or get busy dying."
— Stephen King (Shawshank Redemption)

tags: life

839 people liked it

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