I met a young man who was wounded in love, I met another man who was wounded in hatred.
You are the most rare & majestic you there ever was and ever will be.
Don't ever, ever, ever give up, because you're here for a reason, even if it's just to laugh at cats on the internet.
You are constantly changing & evolving through your experiences, how you interpret your experiences, and how you choose to do things in the future based on those experiences.
The single greatest gift you could ever give the world is to be exactly who you are.
When I'm feeling sad, or lonely, and I don't know what I'm doing and I don't know where I'm going, I imagine the Cool Awesome Future Version of Myself just telling my present self, "It's okay. You just gotta grab that giraffe by the ears and ride it on out. "
In order to find out who you are, you will, at some point, have to feel really isolated, left out, different.
If we're stuck with having expectations, there's a very good reason to embrace positive ones: it's that we often create what we anticipate.
I've read a lot of Irvine Welsh - Trainspotting, Glue - he's written some beauties.
In terms of our foreign policy, that's where we made a mistake after 911. Everyone's going, "Why, why, why," and there wasn't any investigation or learning from any of what we had been doing up to that time that had set us up.
An irrelevance, and your life's altered.