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“But what he didn't understand was that this dreamland was preferable,walking through this life half-sleeping,everything at arm's length or farther away. I understood those mermaids.I didn't care if...”
“Inspiration comes when you stick your elbows on the table, your bottom on the chair and you start sweating. Choose a theme, an idea, and squeeze your brain until it hurts. That's called inspiration.”
“It’s the Olympics. If you can’t get up to swim early in the morning, don’t go.”
“Life was messy, filled with countless worries, questions—what ifs. The real question was not how a person conquered the what ifs, but how one learned to live in spite of them—even when faced with t...”
“It’s not the quality of the answers that changes our lives, it’s the quality of the question”
“While appearing weak is okay, giving in to weakness is definitely not.”
“Sometimes life decides that we must also take care of ourselves in other ways and love, the way we perceive it, must reflect only upon us.”
“So many people come up to me and said “Nick, I don’t have a purpose, I don’t know what to do in my life.” Let me ask you one thing, if you went through your life full of pain, full of tears, and at...”
“The essence of America – that which really unites us — is not ethnicity, or nationality or religion – it is an idea — and what an idea it is: That you can come from humble circumstances and do grea...”
“Life can be short and it’s meant to be cherished and treasured—every second, every moment. Now, I’ll love harder. I’ll love fiercer. And I will not be afraid.”
“It is deeply satisfying to win a prize in front of a lot of people.”
“If losers can exploit what their adversaries teach them, yes, losers can become winners in the long term.”
“Summer was a book of hope. That's why I loved and hated summers. Because they made me want to believe.”
“In moments such as these, it’s the minor seconds that count. Seconds that can make or break you. Seconds that can save your life.”
“The blade sings to me. Faintly, so soft against my ears, its voice calms my worries and tells me that one touch will take it all away. It tells me that I just need to slide a long horizontal cut, a...”
“I’m a stranger behind the same set of eyes that the girl in the photo holds.”
“…When you’re in the darkness, know that the light will come. We are light and dark, sun and moon, male and female, yin and yang; life is composed of opposites, in a continuing cycle of change…. Whe...”
“It's a lost and lonely kind of feeling,To wake up wearing a disguise.I lie in bed staring at the ceiling, I don't know who I am There's little that I canFully recognize....But I'm taking small step...”
“Our true nature doesn’t need any explanation or demonstration to know itself. It just knows because knowing is part of its nature.”
“Conscience, the divine nature within us, sees everything as connected, what’s good for all is always its priority.”
