No Promises.

I hope something happens. I’m restless as the devil and have a horror of getting fat or falling in love and growing domestic.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

Don’t ever forget that you’re a citizen of this world, and there are things you can do to lift the human spirit, things that are easy, things that are free, things that you can do every day. Civility, respect, kindness, character. You’re too good for schadenfreude, you’re too good for gossip and snark, you’re too good for intolerance—and since you’re walking into the middle of a presidential election, it’s worth mentioning that you’re too good to think people who disagree with you are your enemy.

—-Aaron Sorkin, Syracuse Commencement May 2012 (link) 

(Source: suitwithsneakers, via mrlogos)

walking down a street in new york with my kids and it’s warm but not hot outside and we already did a lot of stuff and we’re just going home now and talking and looking at people and feeling the air and the sun is going down and it’s peaceful yet buzzing with life and stories all around us.

—Louis C.K. on his favorite part of a normal day.

It really was such a shame, the way you could be so careful, and for so long, and then go ahead and undo it all in the end, as though nothing had ever been held together by anything at all.

—Johanna Skibsrud, This Will Be Difficult to Explain: And Other Stories

It is not so much a question of forgetting Peeta as remembering the others.

—Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire

My specialty is being right when other people are wrong.

—George Bernard Shaw, You Never Can Tell

Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad.

—George Bernard Shaw, The Irrational Knot