Ryan O'Connell Quotes

#1. We need stressful days in order to be happy. We need days when we get zero sleep and are working tirelessly on a deadline. Because if we didn't, the lazy days wouldn't feel good ... We need to always be working towards something in order to feel useful and have a sense of purpose.

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#2. Sometimes the worst kind of love teaches you the best lessons.

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#3. You'll always care about your first love. That doesn't make you crazy, it just makes you human. When relationships end, it's not so cut and dry. You carry everyone you've ever loved into every relationship thereafter.

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#4. We've created a dating culture in which we never say what we really feel.

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#5. As far as I can tell, there are three guarantees in life: death, taxes, and someone deciding they don't love you anymore.

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#6. That was an important thing for me to realize. It's perhaps the best lesson I could have ever taught myself. Getting it would eventually be the one thing that released me from my neuroses and let me be truly happy.
I'm not special.

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#7. I fall in love with ideas and fantasies rather than whole beings and then I sit here and wonder why I'm still alone. It's because I don't fucking pay attention. I'm too busy thinking about tomorrow that today falls through the cracks.

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#8. But rarely do you ever tell people about the true depths of your loneliness, about how you feel more and more alienated from your friends each passing day and you're not sure how to fix it. It seems like everyone is just better at living than you are.

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#9. You can only really grow when you start being honest with yourself about who you are in the first place.

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#10. Transitioning to adulthood is hard enough. Having your friends judge your progress doesn't make it any easier.

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#11. My mother is my lifeline and I love her a scary amount, but sometimes when I talk to her, I can't help but feel like it's going at the pace of a Sofia Coppola movie.

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#12. People owe us nothing: they can blow through our lives, make us feel hopeful and loved, and then disappear with no explanation or apology.

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#13. In your twenties, you expect to accumulate a graveyard's worth of failed romances. But what you don't count on is having to bury so many treasured friendships alongside them.

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#14. Because only when you discover that you know nothing can you really start to learn something.

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#15. My generation is the first to be in charge of their image. We call the shots and tell you how to feel about our lives. It doesn't matter if what we are projecting is phony. If someone believes it, that makes it true.

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