I wish there was a way to know you were in the good old days, before you actually left them.

Andy Bernard (via bearing-sorrow-having-fun) —

You should not fear failure; you should do your best to avoid it. Nietzsche famously said ” Whatever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.” But what he failed to stress is that it ALMOST KILLS YOU. Disappointment stings and for driven, successful people like yourself it’s disorienting. What Nietzsche should have said is ” Whatever doesn’t kill you, makes you watch a lot of Cartoon Network and drink mid-price Chardonnay at 11 in the morning.”
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Your path at 22 will not necessarily be your path at 32 or 42. One’s dream is constantly evolving, rising and falling, changing course. It is our failure to become our perceived ideal that ultimately defines us and makes us unique. It’s not easy, but if you accept your misfortune and handle it right, your perceived failure can become a catalyst for profound re-invention.

Conan O’Brien - Commencement speech at Dartmouth, 2011 (via beaswellgirl) —

Sometimes I’ll be talking to someone, and I’ll be like ‘Yeah, I’ve been really lonely lately’ and they’ll be like ‘Well we should hang out!’ and I’m like ‘No, that’s not what I meant. That’s not what I meant at all.’

John Mulaney (via in-finitus) —

Fall down. Make a mess. Break something occasionally. Know that your mistakes are your own unique way of getting to where you need to be.

— Conan Obrien

at his commencement speech for Harvard University.

(via rustyameadows)

theghostofmikeyway:

“Sometimes you have to kind of die inside in order to rise from your own ashes and believe in yourself and love yourself to become a new person.” Gerard Way

“You can do amazing things when you believe [in yourself], amazing stuff that people aren’t even capable of. If you believe it, then you could make other people believe it too.” — Gerard Way. x

ilovemcrmorethanilovemyself:

Life is very, very short, and you can choose to live it how you want. You can choose to dumb yourself down and not express yourself just so you can fit in just so people won’t dislike you- or you can fucking live. - Gerard Way

On Saturday, Punxsutawney Phil did not see his shadow. And you know what that means – nothing, because that’s not how weather works.

Late Night with Jimmy Fallon monologue, Feb 4 2013 (via latenightjimmy) —

Follow your fear which in improv usually leads to someone making you sing an improvised song or rap, which is the worst thing that can happen. But the larger thing is the notion that if something scares you a bit, it means that you should follow it a little bit. Now, ‘follow your fear’ does not mean that you should get in the car with a weirdo in a small parking lot. But it does mean that there are moments in your life when something comes up, a chance to move to a new city, or the chance to study in another continent, read your short story out loud, and you feel a lot of fear. And that fear means that you should definitely do it.

Tina Fey (via iamnotsteph)

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