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Now I had won the gold medal. But it didn't mean anything, because I didn't have the right color skin.

The Soul of a Butterfly: Reflections on Life's Journey

Ripe for romance? Is that not only the self-conscious and sensitive young man's way of saying he was heavy with passion? Is not, perhaps, romance only the fiction by means of which the tender-minded negotiate their lust?

The Summer of Katya

Taking advice is fine; by all means, be open-minded, but not to the point of allowing others to obliterate your uniqueness.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

Playful, positive sarcasm is different from negative mean sarcasm, and many people don't know the difference.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

To forgive another person means you have first condemned them. When we condemn others we condemn ourselves.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

To whom can I put this question (with any hopes of an answer)? Does being able to live without someone you loved mean you loved her less than you thought... ?

Mourning Diary

A man wants to earn money in order to be happy, and his whole effort and the best of a life are devoted to the earning of that money. Happiness is forgotten; the means are taken for the end.

The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

There is no longer a single idea explaining everything, but an infinite number of essences giving a meaning to an infinite number of objects. The world comes to a stop, but also lights up.

The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

Sometimes I wonder if my heart is like a black hole--it's so dense that there's no room for light, but that doesn't mean it can't still suck me in.

My Heart and Other Black Holes

Let's live our lives with great meaning and purpose in the attempt to influence the world to whatever degree our circumstance allows.

My Mastery: Learning to Live through Jiu Jitsu

Christianity also stands in opposition to intellectual, as well as physical, health. To doubt becomes sin. 'Faith means not wanting to know what it true' a description that strikes me as stunning and quite exact.

The Making of the Messiah

/.../happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one's dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one's surrender to a person other than oneself.

Man's Search for Meaning

I think it was Lessing who once said, 'There are things which must cause you to lose your reason or you have none to lose'. An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behaviour".

Man's Search for Meaning

What do you mean fainted? Took a dive, kissed the pavement. Swooned like a southern belle after her first kiss. Had a dreadful case of the vapors.

Magic Slays

Son, are you happy? I don't mean to pry, but do you dream of Heaven? Have you ever wanted to die?

The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories

There are lots of guys out there who write a better prose line than I do and who have a better understanding of what people are really like and what humanity is supposed to mean – hell, I know that.

Misery

Destiny is a lie. Destiny is justification for atrocity. It is the means by which murderers armour themselves against reprimand. It is a word intended to stand in place of ethics, denying all moral context.

Midnight Tides

Just as the soul animates the body, so, in a way, meaning breathes life into a word.

The Metalogicon of John of Salsibury: A Twelfth-Century Defense of the Verbal and Logical Arts of the Trivium

A rose is a mixture of flower and thorns, which means it’s half “Let’s fuck,” and half “fuck you.

The Merits of Marthaism, and How Being Named Susan Can Benefit You

Managing excuses means not excusing yourself from the responsibility you need to take with your thought, words, and actions.

No Excuses, The Fit Mind-Fit Body Strategy Book

I mean you're cute, but not that cute. Would Rhea really risk life in a maximum security detention unit just so that she could press herself against your manly body?

Noble Conflict