I'm pretty sure 'ferral cats' is code for 'vampire cougars.
I believe it would be considerably healthier for us to dare to live without a reason for many things than with reasons that are simplistic.
Life is difficult. This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. It is a great truth because once we truly see this truth, we transcend it. Once we truly know that life is difficult-once we truly understand and accept it-then life is no longer difficult. Because once it is accepted, the fact that life is difficult no longer matters.
The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.
Since [narcissists] deep down, feel themselves to be faultless, it is inevitable that when they are in conflict with the world they will invariably perceive the conflict as the world's fault. Since they must deny their own badness, they must perceive others as bad. They project their own evil onto the world. They never think of themselves as evil, on the other hand, they consequently see much evil in others.
Evil people hate the light because it reveals themselves to themselves. . . . They will destroy the light, the goodness, the love in order to avoid the pain of self-awareness. . . . [E]vil is laziness carried to its ultimate, extraordinary extreme.
Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.
When the whole world turns clown, and paints itself red with its own hearts blood instead of vermilion, it is something else than comic.
The enemy doesn't care how many days you live as long as you don't live in the days you have.
You have to realize, when you're a comedian, that you have to have a thick skin. And trust me, being onstage in front of people is already difficult enough. Somebody's personal attack in an email is not as hard as getting onstage.
I went to the brink many times. A couple of times I thought "I'm gone, This is it. " But then you would just keep working. I think if you're close to the brink and just make sure that you work twice as hard and put twice as much effort into everything and the people around you and everything, you should come through.