Motivational Quotes For Realistic People

Ilana Gordon
ART + marketing
Published in
1 min readNov 5, 2016

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Dance like nobody’s watching your drink to make sure it doesn’t get roofied.

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined when you were high on mushrooms.

If you love someone, let them go. If they come back, they’re yours. If not, then maybe that Stockholm Syndrome didn’t take after all.

If you’re going through hell, keep going. There’s probably a bathroom off the next exit.

That which does not kill us makes us tired.

Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, at least you can tell people that one time you got to ride in a rocket.

If you can’t handle me at my worst, you don’t deserve me at my slightly less bad.

It’s not the number of breaths we take, but the number of moments where we can breathe without congestion caused by seasonal allergies.

Life is what happens to you when you’re busy waiting on hold for your cable provider.

Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile, because you don’t know the appropriate emotional response for this situation.

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Ilana Gordon
ART + marketing

Writer of comedy + other things: Input Magazine, The A.V. Club, The Daily Dot, Jezebel, The Takeout, McSweeneys, Reductress, The American Bystander | @IlanaAbby