Twenty-one Truths About Love Quotes

“9. Do the thing you are thinking about doing right now. Today. Thinking about it is simply fear masquerading as thoughtfulness.
10. Living well is the best revenge. If that doesn't work, bide your time. You can always ruin your enemy's life at a later date.”
― Matthew Dicks, Twenty-one Truths About Love

“Read more. It allows you to borrow someone else's brain, and will make you more interesting at a dinner party.”
― Matthew Dicks, Twenty-one Truths About Love

“No one really changes. Assholes are always assholes. Angels are always angels. You are the person you've always been. Some people just learn to hide their ugly parts.”
― Matthew Dicks, Twenty-one Truths About Love

“Adults spend their lives unwinding their childhood.”
― Matthew Dicks, Twenty-one Truths About Love

“Love does not make everything better, but it makes everything a little easier.”
― Matthew Dicks, Twenty-one Truths About Love

“Facts about Jesus that I told Kimberly to annoy her
1. Jesus was Jewish
2. Jesus was a socialist
3. Jesus was a refugee
4. Jesus was anti-death penalty
5. Jesus was anti-school prayer (Matthew 6:5)
6. Jesus was opposed to the accumulation of wealth
7. Jesus was silent on the issues of homosexuality and gay marriage
8. Jesus was a brown-skinned Middle Easterner who wore sandals to the dinner table
9. Jesus was a friend to prostitutes”
― Matthew Dicks, Twenty-one Truths About Love

“The size of gummy worms compared to the size of gummy bears makes me question the whole gummy universe.”
― Matthew Dicks, Twenty-one Truths About Love

“Loving another person means not needing their best self. Just their real self.”
― Matthew Dicks, Twenty-one Truths About Love

“To truly love someone, you must love the person you never knew, the person you know today, and the person that will someday be.”
― Matthew Dicks, Twenty-one Truths About Love

“A person is more than a person. A person is the promise of everything that person can be.”
― Matthew Dicks, Twenty-one Truths About Love

“Rules of Manhood
-Stop talking about where you went to college
-You will regret your tattoos
-When in doubt, always kiss the girl
-You may only request one song from the DJ
-Measure yourself only against your previous self
-Revenge is an excellent cure for anger
-No one cares if you are offended, so stop it
-Read more. It allows you to borrow someone else's brain and will make you more interesting at a dinner party”
― Matthew Dicks, Twenty-one Truths About Love

“Addition to Dan's Laws of the Universe

If the childhood version of yourself would hate the adulthood version of yourself, you suck at life.”
― Matthew Dicks, Twenty-one Truths About Love

“Solutions are a hell of a lot easier when you're the only one in need of saving. Also, explosives help too.”
― Matthew Dicks, Twenty-one Truths About Love

“Just a little bit of shared language and culture can make a person feel like he's standing far outside of a group, wishing to find a way in.”
― Matthew Dicks, Twenty-one Truths About Love

“The single greatest thing you can do to guarantee your future success is to read a lot.”
― Matthew Dicks, Twenty-one Truths About Love

“Allow others to sing your praise. If you don't feel like you're receiving the credit you deserve, you haven't earned the credit you deserve. Try harder.”
― Matthew Dicks, Twenty-one Truths About Love

“Living well is the best revenge. If that doesn't work, bide your time. You can always ruin your enemy's life at a later date.”
― Matthew Dicks, Twenty-one Truths About Love

“Three kinds of people

1. People who make their dreams come true because they were told that it was possible
2. People who make their dreams come true because they were told that it was impossible and they are hell-bent on proving the world wrong
3. Me”
― Matthew Dicks, Twenty-one Truths About Love

“L'homme qui ne croit pas en Dieu prie dans les moments de désespoir exactement comme l'homme qui se noie tente de respirer sous l'eau. Parfois, tout ce qu'il nous reste, c'est l'impossible.”
― Matthew Dicks, Twenty-one Truths About Love

“Une personne est bien plus qu'une personne. Une personne est la promesse de tout ce qu'elle peut être.”
― Matthew Dicks, Twenty-one Truths About Love

“Laisse les autres chanter tes louanges. Si tu n'as pas le sentiment de recevoir les honneurs que tu mérites, c'est que tu n'as pas gagné les honneurs que tu crois mériter. Fais un effort.”
― Matthew Dicks, Twenty-one Truths About Love

“Règle : si tu dois dire que tu es la personne la plus intelligente de la pièce, c'est que tu n'es pas la plus intelligente de la pièce.”
― Matthew Dicks, Twenty-one Truths About Love

“Il n'y a pas de questions idiotes. Il n'y a que des idiots qui posent des questions.”
― Matthew Dicks, Twenty-one Truths About Love

“Une habitude n'est qu'une obsession qui se prétend volontaire et contrôlable.”
― Matthew Dicks, Twenty-one Truths About Love

“Drop mean friends instantly. There are too many good people in this world to waste your time with a selfish jerk-face.”
― Matthew Dicks, Twenty-one Truths About Love

“He dreams of having everything someday but has no plan.”
― Matthew Dicks, Twenty-one Truths About Love

“Thrilled and frightened are like Siamese twins. You need one for the other.”
― Matthew Dicks, Twenty-one Truths About Love

“You'd think that evolution would've made childbirth easier for women.”
― Matthew Dicks, Twenty-one Truths About Love

“To Do:
Don't die
Read faster”
― Matthew Dicks, Twenty-one Truths About Love

“Reasons I quit teaching
-Kids didn't love me
-Teachers didn't like me
-Principal hated me
-Couldn't continue to witness bad decisions at the expense of children
-Couldn't stand one more minute of professional development that was neither professional nor developmental
-Couldn't stand reading bad writing

Real reasons I quit teaching
-I wasn't a good enough teacher
-It hurt my heart to watch kids waste so much time and ability

Reasons I became a teacher
-Understood the job
-Dad suggested it
-Always like school
-Mr. Sullivan
-Summer Vacations

Teaching revelations
1. Teaching is the only profession that you spend at least 15 years observation before trying to do it yourself
2. I wouldn't be a teacher if Dad hadn't suggested it
3. I still think of myself as a teacher even though I'm not
4. There will always be too m any kids in need of saving
5. If the only reason I became a teacher was for the summer vacations, that would've still be reason enough”
― Matthew Dicks, Twenty-one Truths About Love