Ryan Quinn

“Because of our freedom to pursue life, liberty, and happiness. People assume the most important word in that sentence is ‘freedom,’ when, in fact, it is ‘pursue.’ If we don’t pursue life, we are just as free to waste it. Our averageness is the degree to which we fail to attempt that pursuit.”
― Ryan Quinn, End of Secrets

“Some people are bound to be average. Isn’t that a statistical certainty?” “My understanding of what it means to be average has nothing to do with statistics. The average American is truly average only in the ways he falls short of his own potential, particularly when he is motivated by the expectations of others. There is always someone more to the right or left of you, someone more or less attractive than you, someone richer or poorer, someone who claims to know how you should live your life better than you know it. People are average when they are driven by a motivation to fit in. The American challenge, then, is to be oneself—only, exactly, and totally.”
― Ryan Quinn, End of Secrets