I think I have to trust that you end up with the person you’re supposed to end up with, and that everything in between is there to teach you stuff.

That’s what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he’s wise.

One of life’s terrible truths is that women like guys who seem to know what they’re doing.

Humble people ask for help.

In those days he was wiser than he is now; he used to frequently take my advice.

I love my friends and my past, and it’s made me who I am.

I’m just a friendly person; that runs in my family.

Thirty-three-years-old, still creating art. It’s rage, it’s creativity, it’s pain, it’s hurt, but it’s the opportunity to still have my voice get out there through music.

The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love.

Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.

Too many Christians live their lives like slaves – to the devil – because they believe his lies more than they trust God.

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

I don’t think there’s an option for me to fall in love slowly or at medium speed. I either do, or I don’t.

You gotta understand: I believe a woman should praise the man, the king. If you holding it down for your woman, I feel like the woman should praise. And the man should praise the queen.

We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more.

The only source of knowledge is experience.

Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack.

We become what we repeatedly do.

I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything – diseases, spiders… and people getting tired of me.

I don’t know what drives me to succeed.

It’s an offseason. These days are valuable for everybody.

Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute.

We are like boxers, one never knows how much longer one has.

You may think it was a very little thing, and in these days it seems to me like a trifle, but it was a most important incident in my life. I could scarcely credit that I, the poor boy, had earned a dollar in less than a day; that by honest work, I had earned a dollar. I was a more hopeful and thoughtful boy from that time.

You know, it’s not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enough, you begin to do to yourself.

I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself and others like me.

Every time somebody speaks of my honesty, there is someone who quivers inside me.

I stopped doing drugs when I was 20. I was finished with drugs before Nirvana even started.

I do not live on false promises. I cannot afford to live on bad advice.

I don’t really know that much about love, it turns out.

It is necessary to fall in love… if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway.

Great loves too must be endured.

Relationships based on obligation lack dignity.

One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.

I was not a good student. I did not spend much time at college; I was too busy enjoying myself.

I think the perfection of love is that it’s not perfect.

It seems to be the fate of idealists to obtain what they have struggled for in a form which destroys their ideals.

There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life’s July and left standing amid the piercing chill of an alpine November.

It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father figures; by this time, I have found several and dearly enjoyed knowing them all.

I fear that too many have sadly surrendered their agency to the adversary and are saying by their conduct, ‚I care more about satisfying my own desires than I do about bearing the Savior’s power to bless others.‘

If you realize all the time what’s kind of wonderful – that is, if we expand our experience into wilder and wilder regions of experience – every once in a while, we have these integrations when everything’s pulled together into a unification, in which it turns out to be simpler than it looked before.

Whatever woman may cast her lot with mine, should any ever do so, it is my intention to do all in my power to make her happy and contented; and there is nothing I can imagine that would make me more unhappy than to fail in the effort.

A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.

I love playing ego and insecurity combined.

There’s definitely going to be things that I’m not very good at, things I can improve.

If I could give you information of my life, it would be to show how a woman of very ordinary ability has been led by God in strange and unaccustomed paths to do In His service what He has done in her. And if I could tell you all, you would see how God has done all, and I nothing.

It’s not an easy course. It’s not designed to be. We’re not here to get you in touch with your inner child.

Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves, even when we risk disappointing others.

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.

You can’t trust very many people.

Coincidence is God’s way of remaining anonymous.

To restore the trust of the people, we must reform the way the government operates.

Do not rebuke mockers, or they will hate you; rebuke the wise, and they will love you.

I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one’s wife happy. First, let her think she’s having her own way. And second, let her have it.

If you’re losing your soul and you know it, then you’ve still got a soul left to lose.

Some people would like me to be round again.

Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.

I’d like to think you don’t stop being creative once you get happy. My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.

I think my worst problem is actually living in the moment and understanding everything that’s going on. I feel like I’m in my own bubble.