7 Quotes by David Bowick

There is always the possibility of a better life with every change that we face, but sometimes we have to look hard for it.

The cup flew out of my hands and my God was it beautiful. I wish the Planet Earth video crew were there to film it at 100 frames per second so that we could watch it again at super slow motion in all of it’s glory.

Anger at happenstance for its absurd timing. Anger at myself for being so angry. I hate being angry and every time I got this angry it made me more angry at the fact that I was so angry. I realized though that I couldn't really be mad at any of those things.

It’s amazing how fast you can run when there’s a f**king rottweiler chasing you.

And that is how all wars are justified. Everyone thinks that God is on their side and that they are the ones that deserve to win.

Asking a girl if she’s alright is like jaywalking across a black ice-covered 4 lane street: you think you can make it safely to the other side, but you’re more likely to slip and fall to a most certain death.

I was always of the mindset that whatever will be, will be. We can only just try to control our own lives, that because our lives are so hopelessly entangled in the choices of others, we can never have full control over our destiny or fate or purpose or whatever you want to call it. The choices we make define us, of course, but so do the choices of everyone around us whether we know them or not. Instead of contemplating what-if scenarios, I always just tried to accept things.