“Standards are just the most accepted ways of doing things. They're usually unquestioned, not challenged, not the most efficient, and not the best way of doing things.”
“Most of us will never do great things. But we can do small things in a great way.”
“You do the shittiest things to the people you love the most. That's just the way it is. You always hurt the people you care about the most.”
“Things didn't turn out the way they're supposed to, but what can you do? You must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it.”
“I wonder: instead of retreating and hiding, instead of pining for the way it was, what if I accept the way it is? This strikes me as both the most obvious thing in the world and the most profound.”
“It seems to be that way with most things. No one to do the really disagreeable jobs except oneself.”