11 Quotes by Jason Dias

We're really endless in a way. If time goes on forever, then any way you divide it is also forever. A tenth of infinity is infinity. It's only us that think the time is gone. It isn't. We're still there. Still at our wedding. Still on honeymoon. All the good times are still happening. Even in the middle of the bad times to come, we'll still be together. Forever, in a way.

Our parents are the worst for us, the most difficult to endure, precisely because they have the most intentions towards us. Hopes, dreams, needs for relationship. Acknowledgement.

Aren't you going to try to talk me out of this?" Maurice asked. "Ask if I'm really up for it?""No. Maybe this is the last thing you do. Maybe you make a complete recovery. Does it matter? I mean, in the long run?""No.

The runner knows something the rest of us are busy forgetting: to get stronger, you have to go on until you are uncomfortable, and then go on a while longer. It is in that place where discomfort happens but activity is still possible that growth and development happen.

No drugs here, no manipulation of neurotransmitters that leaves our worldly problems unattended. And no talking cures because explicit insight is not needed. All that is required is courage: the courage to encounter discomfort and stay with it long enough to be changed by it, strengthened.

If integrity is doing the right thing when nobody is watching, and there is never a private moment, integrity becomes impossible. What are we left with?

I’m not an atheist because there’s no god to not believe in.

Yeah. Politics, Pete. We’re heading for a human moment. I have to think about what is best for America. My country, my people, my sisters and brothers. Party politics, maybe they don’t belong in the churchyard. Maybe we could just be humans in mourning black.

The existential hero strives for authenticity even when it is costly, lives meaningfully in the midst of a banal, absurd world, and confronts rather than rejecting reality regardless of the personal cost.