ekmacC21’s most recent Quotables

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

I had a lover's quarrel with the world.

More than happy. I bet you say that one. You say to somebody. "Oh, I’d be more than happy to do that." How can you be more than happy? To me it sounds like a dangerous mental condition. We had to put Dave in the mental home. He was ... more than happy.

"In your own words." People say that to you all the time. Tell us in your own words. Do you have your own words? I'm using the ones everybody else is using. Next time they tell you to say something in your own words, say, "Nigflot blorny quando floon."

Those who dance are considered insane by those who can't hear the music.

Let a smile be your umbrella, and you'll end up with a face full of rain.

I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.

The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide you are not going to stay where you are.

You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.

You can be the ripest, juiciest peach in the world, and there's still going to be somebody who hates peaches.

“Don’t read too deeply into the things I say. You might drown.”

It was like I forgot the world.

I’m done with my graceless heart, so tonight I’m going to cut it out and then restart.

Always laugh when you can. It is a cheap medicine.

Compassion hurts. When you feel connected to everything, you also feel responsible for everything. And you cannot turn away. Your destiny is bound with the destinies of others. You must either learn to carry the Universe or be crushed by it. You must grow strong enough to love the world, yet empty enough to sit down at the same table with its worst horrors.

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

It is okay to be an outsider, a recent arrival, new on the scene — and not just okay, but something to be thankful for. … Because being an insider can so easily mean collapsing the horizons, can so easily mean accepting the presumptions of your province.

If you're not strange, you're not weird. If you're not weird, you're not funny. if you're not funny, you're boring.

And who wants to be boring?

My only sin was loving to much.

What if your 11:11 wish didn't come true because someone made a wish that nobody gets their wish.