Every day I see a lot of ugliness in the world, but I see quite a bit of beauty too, in both the simple and the complex. I went through some dark days back in high school, but then one day I fractured my C-1 Vertebra and was only alright thanks to a birth defect. Since I recovered 5 years ago pretty much every day has been a good one.

"Being realistic is one of the most common paths to mediocrity" – Will Smith

"Learn like you're going to live forever. Live like you're going to die tomorrow." – Gandhi (Even though I don't like him at all this is a good quote).

"The mistakes I've made are dead to me. But I can't take back the things I never did." – Jonathan Safran Foer

"The difference between fiction and reality is that fiction needs to be credible." – Mark Twain

"You better take care of me, Lord. If you don't, you're gonna have me on your hands." – Hunter S. Thompson

“Don’t seek happiness. If you seek it, you won’t find it, because seeking is the antithesis of happiness.” – Eckhart Tolle

"He who rides the tiger cannot dismount." – I forget his name but someone wicked Badass

"The most common lie is that which one tells himself; lying to others is relatively an exception."
"We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once."
"We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the way in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us."
"The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently."
- All Nietzsche

"The frog is almost 500 million years old. Could you really say with much certainty that America, with all its strength and prosperity, with its fighting man that is second to none, and with its standard of living that is the highest in the world, will last as long as… the frog?" – Catch 22