9 Quotes by Sam Killermann

If you can do nothing else, do whatever is in your power to make the people in your life feel completely unashamed of who they are.

Loneliness is a poison, but aloneness is a catalyst.

Never ask for permission to smile.

It’s gotten far easier to allow ourselves to hate than it is to choose to love.

The world is getting too small for both an Us and a Them. Us and Them have become codependent, intertwined, fixed to one another. We have no separate fates, but are bound together in one. And our fear of one another is the only thing capable of our undoing.

But what's worse is that we have been taught and retaught the Golden Rule so many times that we internally justify this method of behavior as invincible, despite the fact that it fails constantly. We believe that our intentions are more important than the outcomes of our actions, because 'it's the though that counts,' right?

Everyone doesn’t need to have the same beliefs, we just need to start believing in everyone.

Gender is like a Rubik’s Cube with one hundred squares per side, and every time you twist it to take a look at another angle, you make it that much harder a puzzle to solve.

Gender identity is our internal response to a social construction that attempts to make a connection between a person’s biological makeup and their eventual role in society.