David Foster Wallace

"What matters is not what happens to you but how you respond."

"Courage is the ordinary thing made extraordinary."

"The examined life requires the courage to see yourself clearly."

"Community is not a feeling but a practice."

"The self that suffers is not the same self that observes."

"What makes something beautiful is often its imperfection."

"The modern condition is to be perpetually choosing."

"Compassion is not sentiment but work."

"The unforgivable thing is not failure but the refusal to try."

"What we truly fear is connection itself."