3,733 Quotes About Advice

You can learn to write by writing.

The only education is enlightenment.

It's disconcerting to realize how little you have to say to someone who once occupied such a prominent place in your bed.

[M]y body’s needs are no more or less real than my psyche’s. My life brings me the most happiness when I am kind, am responsible, ejaculate a lot, pay my bills, get enough exercise, stay healthy, love a lot, share with those in want, help those in need, and eat enough fiber.

I have never yet figured out what to do about good advice that you get, and that you know right away would help you, but that you cannot follow.

You can be a drunk. You can be a survivor of abuse. You can be an ex-con. You can be a homeless person. You can lose all your money or your job or a husband or a wife, or the worst thing imaginable, a child. You can lose your marbles. You can be standing inside your own failure, a small sad stone in your throat, and still you are beautiful, your story is worth hearing, because you--you rare and phenomenal misfit--are the only one in the world who can tell the story the way that only you can.

Besides, men aren’t worth your time anyway, Letti. If we women spent as much time on ourselves as we do fretting over men, we’d be invincible! Work on yourself because at the end of the day, you’re the only person you can trust.

Life is always just to learn.

There is glory in being youthful.