“The awesome part about The Book of Awesome is the realization that if you enjoy the simple moments in your life, you will be happier.”

Get away from the place that makes you feel comfortable with your depression. The reality is it’s never as bad as the insanity you’ve created in your head.

The Internet’s a big enough place for everybody to be happy.

The worst thing in the world is to be bland.

We tell ourselves we’re here to be flexible and to be nimble, and not necessarily to stick to a master plan.

I’m always throwing out ideas, so it’s not creativity, it’s just volume.

The fact of the matter is that the Internet has brought together millions of people who trust one another for reasons that are unknown.

You need to put the fear of risk aside. Startups need leaders who are willing to persevere through the hard times. Failure is an option, and a real risk.

Only those who live forever can act like there’s time to waste.

Human nature has a tendency to admire complexity but reward simplicity.

Failure and risk are something entrepreneurs should understand well, and learn to manage. Don’t have a fear of talking about your failures. Don’t hide your mistakes.

Nothing could have prepared me for the realization that I was a mother … when I knew I was still in a state of uncreation myself.

The realization of justice is, in the actual state of things, a matter of life or death for society and for civilisation itself.

I get the impression from some people that unless they get direct access to characters’ thoughts and realizations.

Either thought balloons or narrations or some sort of showy action, then those thoughts and realizations never existed.

I think one of the defining moments of adulthood is the realization that nobody’s going to take care of you.

Awe is an intuition for the dignity of all things, a realization that things not only are what they are but also stand, however remotely, for something supreme.

All illusion comes and goes, but the soul remains unchanged. What is meant by God-realization is to actually experience this important thing that the soul is eternal.

Those who conquer their minds are beings of renunciation and detachment. They are beings of renunciation and detachment they are lovingly focused on the True One, they realize and understand themselves.