Melissa Robbins

"I'm not saying I'm the best at everything, but I'm definitely better at some things than other people."

"Life is just a series of awkward moments strung together with occasional snacks."

"You can't control what other people think, but you can control how many times you think about what they're thinking."

"Happiness is mostly about lowering your expectations and then being pleasantly surprised."

"I've learned that the key to success is doing stuff until something works."

"Real friendship is when someone knows you're a mess and sticks around anyway."

"Family is complicated, which is probably why we need so many therapy sessions."

"Hope is that weird feeling you get when you think maybe things won't be terrible."

"It takes courage to admit you have no idea what you're doing."

"Change happens whether you want it to or not, so you might as well make jokes about it."

"Education is important, but so is knowing when to just wing it."

"The more you know, the more you realize how much you don't know."

"Time moves weird when you're waiting for something and also when you're not."

"The truth usually hurts, which is why people prefer lying."

"Freedom sounds great until you realize you have to make your own decisions."

"Peace is just what people call it when they're too tired to argue anymore."

"Nature is beautiful, but also kind of gross if you think about it too hard."

"Art is whatever you want it to be, which is either liberating or terrifying."

"Science explains why things work, but it doesn't make them less weird."

"Music is one of the few things that makes sense when nothing else does."

"Faith is believing in stuff you can't prove, which is basically my entire life strategy."

"A good leader is someone who admits when they have no idea what's happening."

"Work is what you do when you'd rather be doing literally anything else."

"Dreams are just your brain's way of telling you what you're worried about."

"Humor is how you survive things that aren't actually funny."

"Beauty is subjective, which is why I can have terrible taste and still be right."

"Death is something nobody wants to talk about but everybody thinks about anyway."

"Perseverance is just stubbornness with better PR."

"I'm grateful for a lot of things, mostly the ones I don't have to pay for."

"Creativity is the ability to connect things nobody else thinks go together."