Oliver Gaspirtz Quotes

“Life is like the ocean. You can either be the ball floating on the waves, or make your own waves.”

“Life is like the ocean. You can either be the ball floating on the waves, or make your own waves.”

“It's better to dance like a fool, than to stand around like an idiot.”

“A cow's heaven is a flower's idea of hell.”

“The happiest people are not the ones with the best or the most things, but those who most appreciate what they have.”

“Good things you have to make happen. Bad things happen all by themselves.”

“Books like Twilight are not art. They are mass-produced crap that is meant to be consumed by the widest possible audience, for the largest possible profit.”

“How love works: Proximity leads to intimacy, and intimacy leads to a relationship. In other words, people who are around each other a lot, get close, and end up hooking up. So it's no great mystery why bosses and secretaries or co-workers or classmates end up dating each other.”

“Our words are often only vague, inadequate descriptions of our thoughts. Something gets lost in translation every time we try to express our thoughts in words. And when the other person hears our words, something gets lost in translation again, because words mean different things to different people. "A long time" may mean 10 hours to one person, but 10 days to another. So when a thought is formed in my brain, and my mouth expresses it in words, and your ears hear it, and your brain processes it, your brain and my brain never truly see exactly the same thing. Communication is always just an approximation.”

“Ordinary people are products of their environment and fit in. Artists transcend their environment and stand out.”

“Happy Endings are an illusion. Real life is filled with brief moments of fleeting happiness, but ultimately every life is a tragedy that ends in death and grief.”