Todd Lyons > Quotes

“Sometimes loving yourself is just being willing to carry this weird little husk of a person for one more day, like a tired parent pushing a shopping cart with one wobbly wheel and no junk food in it.”
― Todd Lyons, You Tried: A Deadbeat’s Guide to Self-Actualization

“While I am trying to become a better person, I am also counting on a rather generous eulogy."

(It's tacky to quote yourself, but someone has to start the ball rolling.)”
― Todd Lyons

“While I am trying to become a better person, I am also counting on a rather generous eulogy.”
― Todd Lyons

“Chaos is just logic that decided to be flamboyant. Logic is merely the polite cousin of chaos, tiptoeing through life in sensible shoes.”
― Todd Lyons, Wazo the Wildcard: Things Go Wrong, Mostly

“Most days, I feel like I’m doing my best attempt at impersonating a normal human being.
Results vary.”
― Todd Lyons, You Tried: A Deadbeat’s Guide to Self-Actualization

“You no longer pretend you’re climbing a ladder. You’ve kicked it over and made a quaint/kitschy bench out of the pieces. (Depends on who sees it.)”
― Todd Lyons, You Tried: A Deadbeat’s Guide to Self-Actualization

“A rejection letter from the Goodreads Author program invites you to respond to the email while changing the title and re-sending all the information you sent the first time.
Then, that email bounces back rejected with a note that says they no longer use that email address. It advises me to reapply using the same contact form that they originally rejected me with.
The clincher: I was rejected because my website uses a contact form, too.
No thanks, Goodreads.”
― Todd Lyons

“Maslow didn’t list “education” anywhere on his famous
hierarchy of needs. (Probably to avoid offending the stupid.)”
― Todd Lyons, You Tried: A Deadbeat’s Guide to Self-Actualization