“Life is gritty and hard and then suddenly it is brilliant and amazing.” 

“Facebook is nothing but heavily packaged “Kodak moments” that bear no relation to how people really live.” 

“I have a hard time finding the balance between not beating myself up when it doesn’t happen as fast as I’d like it to, and not wasting time while I wait for it to happen.” 

“Resistance loves surfing the Web, vegging out in front of the TV, sticking to routine, not picking up the phone, hitting snooze, avoiding confrontation, making excuses, rumination, and isolation.” 

“You aren't battling your ability to stick to a diet, execute a business plan, repair a broken marriage and rebuild your life, hit your goals, or win over a bad manager- you are battling your feelings about doing it. You are more than capable of doing the work to change anything for the better, despite how you feel. Feelings are merely suggestions, ones you can ignore. To change you must do the same, you must ignore how you feel, and just do it anyway.” 

“Every phase of your life and career will require a different you. Using the Rule, you’ll become the person you’re meant to become in this next phase of your life.” 

“But when you’re stuck, the major task is deciding if you’re going to change at all. The challenge is finding the ability, in the face of an overwhelming amount of resistance, to create a small change in your life and build on it.” 

“IN any area of your life that you want to change, adopt this rule. Just do the things that you don’t want to do.” 

“Marriages suffer from this same cycle. You start dating someone with wonder and anticipation, drunk on love. You romanticize everything about your partner, and even mundane activities like going to the grocery store together can seem like a fantastic date. But then you fall into a routine, and years later, you’ve become roommates, circling the same safe topics while packing lunches, the monotony broken only by occasional date nights. Deep down, you know why these parts of your life have gone stale. It’s because nothing new is happening. You may say you fear change, but the lack of change in your life is why you feel so blah. Monotony will drive any human relationship or endeavor into a ditch.” 

They can't tell so much about you if you got your eyes closed.

Plant a garden in which strange plants grow and mysteries bloom.

Rules? PISS ON YOUR FUCKING RULES!

He Who Marches Out Of Step Hears Another Drum

No, my friend. We are lunatics from the hospital up the highway, psycho-ceramics, the cracked pots of mankind. Would you like me to decipher a Rorschach for you?

Good writin' ain't necessarily good readin'.

What makes people so impatient is what I can't figure; all the guy had to do was wait.

People think love is an emotion. Love is good sense.

You had a choice: you could either strain and look at things that appeared in front of you in the fog, painful as it might be, or you could relax and lose yourself

But he won’t let the pain blot out the humor no more’n he’ll let the humor blot out the pain.

I don't think you fully understand the public, my friend; in this country, when something is out of order, then the quickest way to get it fixed is the best way.

I listened to them fade away till all I could hear was my memory of the sound.

He's the sort of guy that gets a laugh out of people.

He who walks out of step hears another drum.

He knows that there's no better way in the world to aggravate somebody who's trying to make it hard for you than by acting like you're not bothered.

To Vik Lovell who told me dragons did not exist, then led me to their lairs ...

He knew you can't really be strong until you can see a funny side of things.

We can count how many seeds are in the apple, but not how many apples are in the seed.

The secret of being a top-notch con man is being able to know what the mark wants, and how to make him think he's getting it.

You've got to get out and pray to the sky to appreciate the sunshine; otherwise you're just a lizard standing there with the sun shining on you.

Like a cartoon world, where the figures are flat and outlined in black, jerking through some kind of goofy story that might be real funny if it weren't for the cartoon figures being real guys...

But I tried though," he says. "Goddammit, I sure as hell did that much, now, didn't I?

More was revealed in a human face than a human being can bear face to face.

The world news might not be therapeutic.

I'd take a look at my own self in the mirror and wonder how it was possible that anybody could manage such an enormous thing as being what he was.

Sometimes I looked at them and sometimes they looked at me, but rarely did we look at one another.

But at least I tried

The fundamentalists have taken the fun out of the mental.

This world… belongs to the strong, my friend! The ritual of our existence is based on the strong getting stronger by devouring the weak.

Memory whispers someplace in that jumbled machinery.

They wouldn't be so cocky if they knew what me and the moon have going.

The man who seeks revenge digs two graves.

To hell with that. A man goin' fishing with two whores from Portland don't have to take that crap.

Because he knows you have to laugh at the things that hurt you just to keep yourself in balance, just to keep the world from running you plumb crazy.

Take what you can use and let the rest go by.

Ocean, Ocean I'll beat you in the end.

Then the trembling starts to get worse. This must be how they begin, he thinks. Freak-outs. Breakdowns. Crack-ups. Eventually shut-ins and finally cross-offs. But first the cover-up . . .

It's the truth, even if it didn't happen... ...if they don't exist, how can a man see them?

I been away a long time.

You're making sense, old man, a sense of your own. You're not crazy the way they think. Yes...I see...

“Your feelings don’t matter. The only thing that matters is what you DO.”