Logan

“If the purpose of a relationship is for people to be healed, and healing can only occur when our wounds are revealed, then the ego confronts us with a terrible Catch-22. If I don’t show myself, there can be no growth. Without growth, there will ultimately be boredom, which is death for the relationship. But if I do reveal myself honestly, then I might appear unattractive and my partner will leave.

The ego’s narcissism has us waiting for the perfect person to appear. The Holy Spirit knows that the search for perfection in another is just a smokescreen that hides our need to develop the perfect within ourselves. And if there is a perfect person out there—which there isn’t—would they date you?”
― Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love: Relfections on the Principles of a Course in Miracles

“Q: What is your idea of perfect happiness?
A: Imagining that something somewhere wants us to like it here.”
― Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Fates Worse Than Death: An Autobiographical Collage

“I’m just brutally fuckin’ honest about goin’ ahead and doin’ what I have to do. But it’s not that I can’t sense people’s feelings. People are hurt.

Whenever you move forward, you leave a fuckin’ wake.

—Yeah, and your wake’s a BIG one.
It’s a big wake. A lotta destruction behind me.

—Are you very good at saying goodbye to people?

No. I don’t like long goodbyes.

—HA HA HA. Sometimes you don’t like ANY goodbye at all!

Well … some goodbyes are more subtle than others. Sometimes only one of the people involved knows that it’s a goodbye. But that’s because—

—YEAH?????

I guess it’s because I’m chickenshit and I don’t want to hurt people. And that’s a weakness of mine. I could be more honest about certain things. See, these people that say I’m so honest—I’m not that honest.”
― Jimmy McDonough, Shakey: Neil Young's Biography

“We were all—every kid in the crowd and every person on stage—chasing the same thing: a feeling of rebellion, of possibility, of promise, of chaos. We had to find it so we could figure out how to be ourselves, and we couldn’t locate it without each other.”
― Lizzy Goodman, Meet Me in the Bathroom: Rebirth and Rock and Roll in New York City 2001-2011