Quotes from Gregg Andrew Hurwitz

Pain is inevitable,'" he says. "'Suffering is optional.

He looked fit and healthy, a vibrant seventy-something. The kind of man who was superb at caring for himself. Organic food and facial peels and a weekly massage at the racket club. The kind of man who marveled at why others couldn't just keep their heads above water like he did, who didn't understand that if you don't have any boots, you can't pull yourself up by your bootstraps.

You can't be perfect unless you're alone, and then guess what? You're alone. So you're still not perfect.

Mason had that made," Deborah said of the puzzle. "One of those custom ones. He wanted Ruby to be able to put the family back together again. Thought it would be Ã¢â'¬Â¦ hmm, therapeutic. But it just sits there. And sits there.

Every time I consider myself an adult, I think back five years to when I also thought of myself as an adult. An I'm aghast at how staggeringly blind I was. Maybe what I hold to be true right now will seem just as ignorant when I reflect back on it years from now.

What we resist pursues us. What we accept transforms us.

Which matters more? The works I've done or the life I lead?" The minister was right. The words felt different in Evan's body and behind his face. "You assume they're different," the minister said. "One's works and one's life.

People today. You know how to work everything, but you don't know how anything works.

You're very close with your nephew." "Yes. Sometimes there are special relationships like that in families, you know?" He did not. She continued, "Where there is no static in the line. You just get each other.

A single bad decision can open a world of lamentable consequences.

One thing he'd learned time and again was that you never could tell what kind of private hell people were fighting through.

Maturity is graduating from the belief that the world misunderstands you to the awareness that you misunderstand the world.

He considered. "When you come into a situation, don't want anything. Don't want approval. Don't want to scare people. Don't want anyone to like you. Don't need to prove anything to them or make them angry. Then you can see what's really happening.

Maybe that's all growing up is. Knowing in real time that you don't know anything.

Maybe the only way to get anywhere worth being is to pick up the heaviest thing you can carry. And carry it.

A baby takes everything from you. Everything you were before." She waved a hand, a ghostly flicker in the blackness. "Your time. Your figure. Your looks. They take your sleep until you don't know how to function.

Don't surround yourself with like-minded people. You'll get limited or radicalized.

Remember that what you do not yet know is more important than what you already know.—Jordan Peterson

I usually find," Evan said, "that people will show you how they want to be treated if you pay attention.

A baby takes everything from you. Everything you were before." She waved a hand, a ghostly flicker in the blackness. "Your time. Your figure. Your looks. They take your sleep until you don't know how to function. But all that is just a disguise for the most important thing they take from you: your selfishness. And that's the true gift of parenthood.

It brought Duran back to his childhood, where he'd seen a lot of things kids weren't meant to see and some stuff beyond that. It had been like a tour of duty, his childhood, a state of mind to be endured. His senses had been alive then, that was for sure. So much unrealized potential, so many dreams of who he could be and what he'd do when he got there.

When you're at a wall, start climbing.

Fear needs a future," Evan said. "Let's focus on the present.

You can't help people more than they want to help themselves.