“What the hell is he, anyway? Latino? Asian? Mixed Caucasian? He looks like he’s been photoshopped by a bunch of horny teenagers.”
― L.J. Shen, quote from Tyed
“It looks like Brain and Hormones are in for a fight. Just as long as Heart stays out of the ring.”
― L.J. Shen, quote from Tyed
“Step Away, Coffee. This Is A Job For Alcohol.”
― L.J. Shen, quote from Tyed
“At the moment, my biggest plan for the future consists of a take-out pizza and re-watching the first six seasons of Sons of Anarchy. I’m nurturing a monogamous, not-at-all disturbing relationship with Charlie Hunnam's work right now.”
― L.J. Shen, quote from Tyed
“I won't hit you, but I'll hurt you'.”
― L.J. Shen, quote from Tyed
“No, I took you out on a date because I want to fuck your brains out, among other things, and I know that the feeling is mutual. Unlike your buddy Shane, I don’t sugarcoat my intentions. I don’t want to be your friend. I have no interest in hanging out with you at the mall or choosing outfits with you or crap like that. I crave you. I want all of you, every single inch of you. And call it an only-child syndrome, but I. DO. NOT. FUCKING. SHARE.”
― L.J. Shen, quote from Tyed
“This place is crazy, B. You’ll develop testicles just by breathing the air here.”
― L.J. Shen, quote from Tyed
“Women like men who play hockey, football, basketball and golf (okay, scratch golf).”
― L.J. Shen, quote from Tyed
“I Hate Being Bipolar. It’s Awesome!”
― L.J. Shen, quote from Tyed
“If it ain't worth cheating on, it ain't worth winning." Yes.”
― L.J. Shen, quote from Tyed
“Nope, she would not be weeping with joy. But she would be weeping, alright.”
― L.J. Shen, quote from Tyed
“Yeah, it's a souvenir from my very first XWL win. Vicious headlock, but I managed. The fighter ears definitely bring down my stock. It’s a bitch, for sure. I constantly have to drain fluid from them with a syringe.” “That’s disgusting, Tyler.” This, from my nana, who has a green, double-headed dildo on her nightstand. My mom still thinks it’s a decorative cactus.”
― L.J. Shen, quote from Tyed
“Rottweilers don't turn into neutered Chihuahuas.”
― L.J. Shen, quote from Tyed
“is. I'm not sure where the Arts part fits in Mixed Martial Arts.”
― L.J. Shen, quote from Tyed
“Sit down,” Ty orders calmly. “Take me home.” “You’re mad because I told you I sleep with other girls?” He is mumbling to himself, almost as if it’s the first time he’s met a girl who isn’t okay with this. “Wow. You worked that out quickly. Are you sure you want to stay in the XWL and deprive the world of science of your incredible brain?”
― L.J. Shen, quote from Tyed
“Heart stops beating. Brain shuts down. Hormones are raging.”
― L.J. Shen, quote from Tyed
“John Lennon quote. When his school teacher once asked him what he wanted to be when he grew up, and he said happy, and she said that he didn't understand the question, and he answered that she didn't understand life.”
― L.J. Shen, quote from Tyed
“I’m a (kind of) strong, (semi) independent woman, and I can. Handle. Ty. Wilder.”
― L.J. Shen, quote from Tyed
“This shit would make a hyperactive kid snore his way through Halloween.”
― L.J. Shen, quote from Tyed
“Jesse is not as charismatic as Ty, but they both fall under the category of people who can tell you to do just about anything, including rimming a dead donkey, and you’d do it.”
― L.J. Shen, quote from Tyed
“The university is located between San Francisco, Oakland and my internal wish to kill myself.”
― L.J. Shen, quote from Tyed
“I want to yell at him to stop. He’s driving in the Friend Zone. He cannot switch lanes to Boyfriend. That’s an illegal turn. Two double yellow lines.”
― L.J. Shen, quote from Tyed
“The guy I want is perfectly imperfect, and I'm completely fine with it.”
― L.J. Shen, quote from Tyed
“I’m living, but I'm not alive.”
― L.J. Shen, quote from Tyed
“Apparently, after the excruciating pain, comes the numb. I’m at my numb phase.
I'm heart-crushingly numb.”
― L.J. Shen, quote from Tyed
“Women like men who play hockey, football, basketball and golf (okay, scratch golf). Women love men who know how to fight.”
― L.J. Shen, quote from Tyed
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“Upon learning that Washington intended to reject the mantle of emperor, no less an authority than George III allegedly observed, “If he does that, he will be the greatest man in the world.” True to his word, on December 22, 1783, Washington surrendered his commission to the Congress, then meeting in Annapolis: “Having now finished the work assigned me,” he announced, “I now retire from the great theater of action.” In so doing, he became the supreme example of the leader who could be trusted with power because he was so ready to give it up.”
― Joseph J. Ellis, quote from Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation
“The gospel can lift this destroying burden from the mind, give beauty for ashes, and the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness. But unless the weight of the burden is felt the gospel can mean nothing to the man; and until he sees a vision of God high and lifted up, there will be no woe and no burden. Low views of God destroy the gospel for all who hold them.”
― A.W. Tozer, quote from The Knowledge of the Holy
“It’s worth taking a brief pause here to ponder what has happened. Using only Pythagoras’ theorem and Einstein’s assumption about the speed of light being the same for everyone, we derived a mathematical formula that allowed us to predict the lengthening of the lifetime of a subatomic particle called a muon when that muon is accelerated around a particle accelerator in Brookhaven to 99.94 percent of the speed of light. Our prediction was that it should live 29 times longer than a muon standing still, and this prediction agrees exactly with what was seen by the scientists at Brookhaven. The more you think about this, the more wonderful it is. Welcome to the world of physics!”
― Brian Cox, quote from Why Does E=mc²? (And Why Should We Care?)
“Instead of worrying, we need to be seeking His kingdom and His righteousness.”
― Terri Blackstock, quote from Last Light
“David Foster Wallace: I think the reason why people behave in an ugly manner is that it’s really scary to be alive and to be human, and people are really really afraid. And that the reasons…
That the fear is the basic condition, and there are all kinds of reasons for why we’re so afraid. But the fact of the matter is, is that, is that the job that we’re here to do is to learn how to live in a way that we’re not terrified all the time. And not in a position of using all kinds of different things, and using people to keep that kind of terror at bay. That is my personal opinion.
Well for me, as an American male, the face I’d put on the terror is the dawning realization that nothing’s enough, you know? That no pleasure is enough, that no achievement is enough. That there’s a kind of queer dissatisfaction or emptiness at the core of the self that is unassuageable by outside stuff. And my guess is that that’s been what’s going on, ever since people were hitting each other over the head with clubs. Though describable in a number of different words and cultural argots. And that our particular challenge is that there’s never been more and better stuff comin’ from the outside, that seems temporarily to sort of fill the hole or drown out the hole.
Personally, I believe that if it’s assuageable in any way it’s by internal means. And I don’t know what that means. I think it’s fine in some way. I think it’s probably assuageable by internal means. I think those internal means have to be earned and developed, and it has something to do with, um, um, the pop-psych phrase is lovin’ yourself.
It’s more like, if you can think of times in your life that you’ve treated people with extraordinary decency and love, and pure uninterested concern, just because they were valuable as human beings. The ability to do that with ourselves. To treat ourselves the way we would treat a really good, precious friend. Or a tiny child of ours that we absolutely loved more than life itself. And I think it’s probably possible to achieve that. I think part of the job we’re here for is to learn how to do this.”
― David Lipsky, quote from Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace
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