The most valuable moments and experiences that life has to offer are found only along its most treacherous paths.
Augusten BurroughsNothing made sense to me anymore. I knew I was young, I knew I was small. But I was worried that I might already be ruined.
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Confidence is a reduction of your own interest in whether others are thinking about you and if so, what they're thinking.
Augusten BurroughsLike cubic zirconia, I only look real. I'm an imposter.
Augusten BurroughsDespite evidence to the contrary, I hated drinking to the point that I misplaced really big slabs of time.
Augusten BurroughsStichwörter: addiction-alcoholism-drinking
The events of the past cannot be fully understood when you are the only element of the past actively engaged in reliving it.
Augusten BurroughsStichwörter: the-past the-past-cannot-be-altered
I didn't begin life hating my grandmother. Like every child, I adored her. Until I formed a brain and got to know her.
Augusten BurroughsStichwörter: growing-up
There is no shame in being hungry for another person. There is no shame in wanting very much to share your life with somebody.
Augusten BurroughsA body in motion tends to stay in motion. (reebok,chiat/day.)Just do it. (Nike, Weiden and Kennedy.)Dammit something just isn't right. (Me, to my bathroom mirror at four thirty in the morning when I'm plastered.)
Augusten BurroughsThe calcium in your bones came from a star. We are all made from recycled bits and pieces of the universe. This matters because origins matter.
For example, if you were born to a reigning monarch but kidnapped by the black market baby underground shortly after birth and sent to America where you were raised by common, unremarkable people from Ohio, and when you were in your thirties working as a humble UPS driver, dignitaries landed their helicopter on the roof of your crummy apartment building and informed you of their thirty-plus year search for you, His Royal Highness, the course of your life might change.
You know?
Our familial genetic origins -medical histories- inform us of medical conditions which exist in our families and when we know about these specific conditions, we can sometimes take certain actions to prevent them.
Which is why I think it’s important to consider that billions of years before we were students and mothers and dog trainers and priests, we were particles that would form into star after star after star until forever passed, and instead of a star what formed was life; simplistic, crude, miraculous.
And after another infinity, there we were.
And this is why for you, anything is possible.
Because you are made out of everything.
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