“You can't go anywhere if you resign yourself to being attacked.”
“If you have confidence, if you believe in yourself, you can go anywhere.”
“How do you resign yourself to something that will never be? You stop wanting just that thing. You go numb. Or you kill the agent of desire.”
“Jimmy: (in a low, resigned voice) They all want to scape from the pain of being alive. And, most of all, from love. (...) It's no good to fool yourself about love. You can't fall into it like a soft job, without dirtying up your hands.”
“Just resign yourself to the fact that you're going to be miserable so you can finally be happy. (It's a sound theory if you think about it hard enough.)”
“My mother told me...if you're going to get anywhere, you're going to have to do it yourself, because no one is going to do it for you.”