Paula Small

"I'm not saying I'm perfect, but I'm also not saying I'm not."

"Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans to avoid life."

"Sometimes you just have to fake it until you make it, and then fake it some more."

"Love is great and all, but have you tried being alone with snacks?"

"Wisdom is knowing when to speak up and when to just let things be weird."

"I find happiness in the small things, like when nobody's asking me for anything."

"Success is subjective, but I'm pretty sure I'm doing it wrong."

"Friends are the people who tolerate you even when you don't deserve it."

"Family is complicated, but at least they have to like you."

"Hope is that thing you hold onto when everything else falls apart."

"Courage isn't the absence of fear; it's fear with better PR."

"Change is inevitable, which is why I resist it so hard."

"Education is important, but so is knowing when to stop listening."

"Knowledge is power, but power is exhausting."

"Time moves faster when you're not paying attention to it."

"The truth is overrated; sometimes a good story works better."

"Freedom is just another word for nobody telling you what to do."

"Peace is what you get when everyone's too tired to argue."

"Nature is pretty, but it's also full of bugs and dirt."

"Art is whatever makes you feel something, even if it's confusion."

"Science explains everything except why people are the way they are."

"Music is the only language that doesn't require you to be competent."

"Faith is believing in something without proof, which sounds like my childhood."

"Leadership is just being willing to go first and look stupid."

"Work is what you do to afford the life you don't have time to live."

"Dreams are great until you have to wake up and deal with reality."

"Humor is how you survive when things get too real."

"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and I'm not looking."

"Death is just the ultimate excuse to get out of plans."

"Perseverance is just stubbornness with better branding."