623 Quotes About Insightful

If you believe something will make the world better, then it's always worth a try, even if you fail.

Your pain made you strong. It made youpassionate and alive. It made us both who we are. -Cade

Good writing is always about things that are important to you, things that are scary to you, things that eat you up.

A bit of theory as we settle down for lunch: the waiter's treatment of Kitty is actually a kind of sandwich, with the bottom bread being the bored and slightly effete way he normally acts with customers, the middle being the crazed and abnormal way he feels around this famous nineteen-year-old girl, and the top bread being his attempt to contain and conceal this alien middle layer with some mode of behavior that at least approximates the bottom layer of boredom and effeteness that is his norm.

Living a good life is like flipping pancakes. If you hesitate, it splatters all over the place.

What is reason given me for, if I am not to use it to avoid bringing unhappy beings into the world!

...just remember, darling, it is pain that changes our lives.

As an improviser, I always find it jarring when I meet someone in real life whose first answer is no. “No, we can’t do that.” “No, that’s not in the budget.” “No, I will not hold your hand for a dollar.” What kind of way is that to live?

She was still there inside me now, just as she always was: a life put on hold, a memory I didn't know how to handle.