Think about it. If you are single, after graduation there isn’t one occasion where people celebrate you … Hallmark doesn’t make a ‘congratulations, you didn’t marry the wrong guy’ card.
Sarah Jessica Parker, Sex and the City
Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don’t settle.
Steve Jobs, Stanford commencement speech, June 2005
I understand why a woman thinks a man is better than nothing. I will just never understand why she thinks she’s got nothing.
Joshua Malina, Sport’s Night
I don’t want to be 60 years old some day and seemingly happily married to some man that I know is my second choice.
Ione Skye, Dream for an Insomniac
You get what you settle for.
Susan Sarandon, Thelma & Louise
Most people are together just so they are not alone. But some people want magic. I think you are one of those people.
Jean-Paul Scarpitta, Broken English
In a way, it was sort of depressing, too, because you kept wondering what the hell would happen to all of them. When they got out of school and college, I mean. You figured most of them would probably marry dopey guys. Guys that always talk about how many miles they get to a gallon in their goddam cars. Guys that get sore and childish as hell if you beat them at golf, or even just some stupid game like ping-pong. Guys that are very mean. Guys that never read books. Guys that are very boring.
J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
Nobody means to get carried away in mediocrity, but it happens, it happens unless you think about everything you do, unless you make every choice the best one you know how to make.
Richard Bach (via thresca)
I don’t just want to be a footnote in someone else’s happiness.
Fall Out Boy, Headfirst Slide into Cooperstown on a Bad Bet (via notthatkindagay)
Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.
Mark Twain
Some people are settling down, some people are settling and some people refuse to settle for anything less than butterflies.
Sarah Jessica Parker, Sex and the City
She looked me over and I guess she thought I was all right. All right in a sort of a limited way for an off-night.
Paul Simon, I Know What I Know
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