1. Get a book, and just be a sponge with it.

2. This is how to know if she is a call girl.

3. You never know how you can change your life around. Just start.

4. Good writing is good, and bad writing is bad – no matter how much time you spend with it.

5. “Academic degree after academic degree has not removed the haunting specter of the pointlessness of existence in a random universe.”

1. I never thought I would be here.

2. Find a close friend.

3. In regard to work, when did “Grind” become a hip word?

4. When I read, don’t tell me what to think.

5. “I believe in a life of celebration. I believe that the world we wake up to every day is filled to the brim with deep, aching love, and also with hatred and sadness. And I know which one of those I want to win in the end. I want to celebrate in the face of despair, dance when all we see on the horizon is doom. I know that Death knocks at our doors and comes far too early for far too many of us, but when he comes for me, I want to be full-tilt, wide-open, caught in the very act of life. I think that’s what we’re here for, not for a passive, peaceful life, but to stand up in the face of all that lacks peace and demand more.”

–Shauna Niequist, Cold Tangerines