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“Let me ask you this, what are you willing to let go that stands between you and happiness? The obvious stuff is easy, that anger you’ve been holding on to, that resentment. But what about the things you think are assets? That relationship you think you can’t live without, that job you think defines you, can you let go of that? Because, if you’re really serious about getting happy, you might be forced to let it all go, to know you can be okay without it. Because you’re the fish you’re trying to catch, you are the love of your life, you’re everything you’ve been searching for.”
― Josh Peck, Happy People Are Annoying: A Candid Coming-of-Age Memoir of Redemption and Self-Awareness

“So congratulations, you get to feel the full spectrum of human emotions life has to offer, and if you’ve done the work, if you’ve participated in life and not run from it, then you’re equipped to do it.”
― Josh Peck, Happy People Are Annoying: A Candid Coming-of-Age Memoir of Redemption and Self-Awareness

“You’ll probably get everything you ever wanted. It just won’t be in the way you expected.” He paused a moment and then added, “Actually, you’ll probably get what you wanted, but by then you won’t want it anymore.”
― Josh Peck, Happy People Are Annoying: A Candid Coming-of-Age Memoir of Redemption and Self-Awareness

“Too much sunshine brings a desert.”
― Josh Peck, Happy People Are Annoying

“The reason why people are funny is usually not funny at all.”
― Josh Peck, Happy People Are Annoying

“Anger is about the quiet, seething judgement of everyone and everything. You become the self-appointed arbiter of all that is right and wrong in the world and if people would only act the way you thought they should, life would be infinitely better.”
― Josh Peck, Happy People Are Annoying

“There are no experts of the future.”
― Josh Peck, Happy People Are Annoying

“You are ethe fish you're trying to catch, you are the love of your life, you're everything you've been searching for.”
― Josh Peck, Happy People Are Annoying

“We don't always get the amends we deserve, but maybe we give it to ourselves when we put an end to the behavior.”
― Josh Peck, Happy People Are Annoying

“Jews love to come together and share in the overall theme of Judaism, which is, “They tried to kill us, we lived, let’s eat.”
― Josh Peck, Happy People Are Annoying: A Candid Coming-of-Age Memoir of Redemption and Self-Awareness

“I think twice about everything at a minimum and three or four times just for good measure.”
― Josh Peck, Happy People Are Annoying: A Candid Coming-of-Age Memoir of Redemption and Self-Awareness

“Nothing good in life can be maintained without practice”
― Josh Peck, Happy People Are Annoying

“Find the people who support you to be what you want to be, who push you to be your very best, and if you find yourself in a room with someone who doesn’t make you feel that way, leave immediately.”
― Josh Peck, Happy People Are Annoying: A Candid Coming-of-Age Memoir of Redemption and Self-Awareness

“Once you stop caring, that’s when things will start happening, you just have to not care.”
― Josh Peck, Happy People Are Annoying: A Candid Coming-of-Age Memoir of Redemption and Self-Awareness

“When you’re angry, everything is personal and nothing is random. You take on the injustice of the world, and if there’s no injustice, you create it.”
― Josh Peck, Happy People Are Annoying: A Candid Coming-of-Age Memoir of Redemption and Self-Awareness

“by August I was the number one person on Vine, overtaking Harry Styles with 3.5 million followers. And while Harry will always be an icon and have a lower BMI than me, I hope to one day bring this up to him as I gaze at his perfect bone structure whilst his security has me removed.”
― Josh Peck, Happy People Are Annoying: A Candid Coming-of-Age Memoir of Redemption and Self-Awareness

“Let me ask you this, what are you willing to let go that stands between you and happiness? The obvious stuff is easy, that anger you’ve been holding on to, that resentment. But what about the things you think are assets? That relationship you think you can’t live without, that job you think defines you, can you let go of that? Because, if you’re really serious about getting happy, you might be forced to let it all go, to know you can be okay without it.”
― Josh Peck, Happy People Are Annoying: A Candid Coming-of-Age Memoir of Redemption and Self-Awareness

“It was like I'd spent my entire life trying to reason with a peanut allergy.”
― Josh Peck, Happy People Are Annoying

“When you’re angry, everything is personal and nothing is random.”
― Josh Peck, Happy People Are Annoying: A Candid Coming-of-Age Memoir of Redemption and Self-Awareness

“Being overweight, especially in the nineties before the antibullying, body-positivity era of today, invited a lot of commentary and critique. I want to say something here before I go any further, today IS better. I don’t mean to make light of body positivity, it’s important and anyone who today feels more comfortable in their skin than they did when the only standard of beauty was a supermodel, I applaud you. For too long we walked around seeing beautiful people in all shapes and sizes that literally had no representation and today it’s drastically better. But being overweight when I was overweight was different.”
― Josh Peck, Happy People Are Annoying: A Candid Coming-of-Age Memoir of Redemption and Self-Awareness

“Imagine being a sensitive, powerless kid who develops this habit that brings them comfort and peace, a coping mechanism to keep the world and their feelings at bay, but at the same time distorts their body, inviting teasing and criticism, which wounds them, and the only salve they know to ease that pain is to eat more. Holy crap, that’s a cycle.”
― Josh Peck, Happy People Are Annoying: A Candid Coming-of-Age Memoir of Redemption and Self-Awareness

“There was another actor on the show, Drake Bell, whom I got matched up with a lot. We were great together, an undeniable chemistry. He was the perfect straight man to whatever crazy shit I was doing, and we started getting to that sweet spot onscreen where we could finish each other’s sentences.”
― Josh Peck, Happy People Are Annoying: A Candid Coming-of-Age Memoir of Redemption and Self-Awareness

“thank you for reading my book, Mom, and also, can you please make Rice Krispies Treats more often because even as a man in my thirties, they still bring me absurd amounts of comfort.”
― Josh Peck, Happy People Are Annoying: A Candid Coming-of-Age Memoir of Redemption and Self-Awareness

“We don’t always get the amends we deserve, but maybe we give it to ourselves when we put an end to the behavior.”
― Josh Peck, Happy People Are Annoying: A Candid Coming-of-Age Memoir of Redemption and Self-Awareness

“The TRUTH is, I have walked around my entire life feeling terminally unique.”
― Josh Peck, Happy People Are Annoying: A Candid Coming-of-Age Memoir of Redemption and Self-Awareness

“You didn’t tell me what was wrong with ME, you told me what was wrong with YOU and I identified.”
― Josh Peck, Happy People Are Annoying: A Candid Coming-of-Age Memoir of Redemption and Self-Awareness

“Nothing good in life can be maintained without practice.”
― Josh Peck, Happy People Are Annoying: A Candid Coming-of-Age Memoir of Redemption and Self-Awareness

“Be in the efforts business, not the results.”
― Josh Peck, Happy People Are Annoying: A Candid Coming-of-Age Memoir of Redemption and Self-Awareness

“But if physics is right and every action has an equal and opposite reaction, it’s no surprise that I found myself, in that moment, completely alone. I mean, my mom was there but she doesn’t count. I had done such a good job of protecting myself that I had successfully insulated myself from everything the world had to offer, good and bad.”
― Josh Peck, Happy People Are Annoying: A Candid Coming-of-Age Memoir of Redemption and Self-Awareness

“Didn’t he understand that I was trying to find validation through the material world?”
― Josh Peck, Happy People Are Annoying: A Candid Coming-of-Age Memoir of Redemption and Self-Awareness