The sad truth is that even if we were to invest all of our time and resources into making ourselves look like somebody else, most of us would not succeed…

Don’t pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.

Think about where you want to go, back out your decisions from there.

3. Pretending to be “normal.”

“Real Life,” despite being the name of a recent facebook album, is decidedly a thing.

There’s the kind you have in the morning with sleep in your eyes and lust in your veins.

Will we eventually sink into the molasses of romantic stability?

Satanic compulsions, you say? If that’s what you call loving someone, what do you call killing?

A walk home from work is a walk through the parade of Nations during the Olympics.

But nothing could be less ordinary than someone who cares about us when it’s least convenient.

I love you for a lot of reasons but I love you the most because of how insecure you are, because you don’t see all the good stuff that’s inside…


5. Inadvertently ruin every relationship with everyone else because of him.

It’s the body’s way of saying, “Whoops! Time is up. You need to make a change.”

The best thing about being a young adult right now is that you, more than any previous generation, have the freedom and the resources to create your own religion. So,…

If your peace and acceptance is contingent on someone else, and if your hope is external, you do not really have any of those things.

Stephen Hawking published A Brief History of Time, which means your entire lifetime is excluded from his history of time.


The more you don’t wear makeup, the better you look without it.

“Why don’t you just take an internship?”

Do I look fat? I feel large and in charge.

But being able to say “No, I deserve better than this,” and moving on to actually find something that is, is crucial to finding out what it is you really…

It wasn’t till sophomore year, after a conference over Christmas break, that I started to truly give my life to God.

But mostly, I’m content. I’m just…feeling really OK with myself, and if that’s what getting older is all about, then bring it on.

Presented, again, without comment, but this time with GIFs.

At the time of his death in 1940, Fitzgerald claimed to have made just $4,000 off the novel.

Here I am, trying out the couple thing, which I can only compare to learning a foreign language as an adult: when you’re young, the knowledge seems to seep in…

Who approved of Fergie?

It’s magical. You are radiating your usual stink lines of reservation and judgment, when all of a sudden someone even passingly mention something that sounds like a food, and you…

10. Being young enough to still experience things for the first time.

Happy people know suffering more than anyone else.

Unfortunately, while our culture claims to not like bullies, our consumer practices show otherwise.

9. Running to greet someone you love at the train station.

2.) How much can you deadlift?

“If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you.”

Everyone thinks gay guys pursue straight guys, trying to “make” them gay. But let me tell you, I don’t pursue straight guys like that. Sometimes, it’s the straight guys who…

You’re only reading this post because you left your current book at home, or you’re in between books and haven’t yet decided what to dive into next.

The Morning Commute Hottie is a quiet one, categorized only by his choice of newspaper for his daily read. Is he more of a Wall Street Journal bro, or a…

People have cellulite, they have stretch marks, they have birthmarks, they have rolls and bumps and dimples and wrinkles. And those are all perfect bodies, because they do their job…

They come in all shapes and sizes, colors and heights, mental and physical states. When the arguments have ceased and the harsh words have settled, your once coveted significant other…

Date a boy who travels. Date a boy who treasures experience over toys, a hand-woven bracelet over a Rolex.

Whenever I use Facebook on my phone I’m always so terrified of “the wrong” photos getting uploaded and basically ruining my life from there.

Most people are pretty crappy. But not all. And even the ones who are no good and not worthy of your time need a system for you to use so…

Make sure that you understand that love cannot be willed into existence.

However, being young and immature it wasn’t good enough for me to have a mutually not very fun experience. I texted him after the date and asked what had happened,…

14. “All generalizations are false, including this one.”

Love is not difficult, it’s the other crap that gets in the way that is. You have to be able to identify the difference if you want to figure out…

Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book — and does. – Groucho Marx

9. Sometimes you run away when you see him because that just seems like the most natural response to being in the same room as someone you like.

The fact remains, if all of your relationships end in psychological ruin, then that says more about you and less about the entire female population. Your sample size sucks. And your ability…

7. You’re single. I’m single. Coincidence? I think not.

4. How often you date.