Questions you cannot answer are usually far better for you than answers you cannot question.
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San Jose
“To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate the beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch Or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded!” I first encountered this quote on the back of a cafe's business card in Davis, CA and I've kept that card for the past 10+ years. As someone who used to get lost in chasing external validation, this quote helps ground me in what really matters. The bit about knowing even one life as has breathed easier because I have lived resonates with me most. My other favorite quote is YOLO because I can't argue with that.
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Costa Mesa
"Suck it, Trebek!" Not exactly sure it's my favorite but it's one that I always makes me laugh :)
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San Fernando
It's about enjoying the good times while they're here, and knowing they wont last. And when the bad times come, we know that they wont last either.
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Irvine
“El camino se hace al andar” - Antonio Machado
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Irvine
“We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Arabia. Certainly those unborn ghosts include greater poets than Keats, scientists greater than Newton. We know this because the set of possible people allowed by our DNA so massively exceeds the set of actual people. In the teeth of these stupefying odds it is you and I, in our ordinariness, that are here.” -Richard Dawkins