Life is short and progress is slow
That is the moral of this story, kids. No matter how many people try to stomp on your happiness, you have the power to do whatever you want with your life.
Closing your mind to religion is no different than the close-mindedness that religions can cause.
The world is still new. . . it seems old to us, but only seems because our lives are so short. . . our human race has been around for such a brief amount of time that the universe hasn't had the chance to detect us yet. One blink is all it needs to miss our dance through actuality.
When I say something like "back when I was in high school," I usually mean: "back when I was supposed to be in high school.
Maybe I’m drunk right now, even though I don’t remember drinking anything. When I’m drunk, I say things without thinking. Drinking numbs you from your ability to reason. It makes you forget your own character and become a crazy. Maybe I am a crazy now; I’m going through so much chaos these days that reality is hard to grasp.
Like a grindhouse version of Grimm's Fairy Tales, Wallwork's fiction is smart, innovative, and a hell of a lot of fun.
No matter how much silverware you win in your career you always want more.
The manuscript in the drawer either rots or ripens.
Think about food on a full stomach and you find you don't care about taste. Think of lust after making love, and you find you don't care about sex. Therefore, if people always reflect on the regret they will feel afterward to forestall folly at the moment, they will be stable and will not err in action.
I just loved being in the gym. It was tough at times. Sometimes I wanted to quit, but I'm glad I stuck with it.