Stephanie Smith

“And it explains much about me, too, about the limits of my experience, about the fact that the person I am in my head is so far from the person I am in the world. Nobody would know me from my own description of myself.”
― Claire Messud, The Woman Upstairs

“You don't need to go back in time to be awesome; you just have to start right now. Regretting that you didn't start earlier is a great distraction from moving on your dream today, and the reality is that today is earlier than tomorrow.”
― Jon Acuff, Start.: Punch Fear in the Face, Escape Average, and Do Work That Matters

“The problem was you had to keep choosing between one evil or another, and no matter what you chose, they sliced a little more off you, until there was nothing left. At the age of 25 most people were finished. A whole goddamned nation of assholes driving automobiles, eating, having babies, doing everything in the worst way possible, like voting for the presidential candidate who reminded them most of themselves.”
― Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye

“I don't want you to wake up at sixty-five and realize, 'I spend forty of my best years doing something that just funded my life.”
― Jonathan Acuff, Quitter: Closing the Gap Between Your Day Job and Your Dream Job