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Ryan O'Connell Quotes

Total quotes: 58
“You can get bad love anywhere. But letting good love in is an entirely different thing.”
— Ryan O'Connell, Know What’s Sexy? A Boy with Cerebral Palsy Who Owns It: Ryan O'Connelly
Tagged: Love, romance, good love, Life, Motivational
“It’s important that you advocate for yourself in both your work and personal life. No one’s going to care more about you than yourself.”
— Ryan O'Connell, 19 Pieces Of Advice You’ll Need To Make It Through Your 20s
Tagged: Life, Professional, Self-Love
“If you’re fortunate enough, you will find a person who sees this world in the exact same way that you do.”
— Ryan O'Connell, You Can’t Get Through Your 20s Without A Best Friend
Tagged: Friendship, Life, Friends, Love
“When someone gives you their heart, they’re also giving you permission to destroy them. It’s never articulated but it’s understood that the possibility is always there.”
— Ryan O'Connell, This Is What You Get For Falling Out Of Love
Tagged: Love, Pain, Breakups
“Somebody loves you if they call you out on your bullshit. They’re not passive, they don’t just let you get away with murder. They know you well enough and care about you enough to ask you to chill out, to bust your balls, to tell you to stop. They aren’t passive observers in your life, they are in the trenches.”
— Ryan O'Connell, How To Tell If Somebody Loves You
Tagged: Love, Friendship
“You’re my best friend because you’re not afraid to call me out on my crap or disagree with me. I can’t get away with anything when I’m with you. You’ll tell me things that I need to hear but everyone else is too afraid to tell me. Your honesty is so damn refreshing albeit a bitter pill to swallow sometimes.”
— Ryan O'Connell, This Is Why You’re My Best Friend
Tagged: Best Friends, Why I Love You
“I’m in love with you because you make me feel safe. It sounds corny and vague. People always talk about feeling safe with someone and you wonder what it even means. I still don’t really know. All I know is that when I’m with you, I feel like I’m clutching a giant thing of pepper spray or reliving a moment of being carried to bed by my parents when I was five years old and fell asleep in front of the television. All day long, I can feel fragile, like a raw nerve, and when I come home to you, it’s like I just put on the thickest winter coat and installed bulletproof windows in my apartment. ‘Honey, I’m home….and no longer terrified.'”
— Ryan O'Connell, This Is Why I’m In Love With You
Tagged: Love, romance, In love, Loving, Loved, feeling when in love, Love & Happiness
“Finding love is the unconscious motivator for a lot of the things we do. It’s why we work out, it’s why we go to a bar on a Saturday night when we really don’t want to, it’s why we agree to meet strangers off the internet.”
— Ryan O'Connell, 25 Things You Should Know About Love
Tagged: Love, motivation, Relationships
“You’ll have moments with someone that are so intense, it’ll feel like you’ve been electrocuted back to life. You’ll hold on to these moments for a long time. They’ll give you hope when you’re going through the motions.”
— Ryan O'Connell, 25 Things I’ve Learned In My 20s
Tagged: Happiness, Joy, Life, 20s
“College is about figuring out who you are, and in order to do that, you need to become a lot of people you aren’t.”
— Ryan O'Connell, I'm Special: And Other Lies We Tell Ourselves
Tagged: Personality, Self-Actualization, College, Identity, Experimentation
“It is possible to love someone who doesn’t love you back. It’s not a full love, it doesn’t have a whole lot of depth, but it’s still there.”
— Ryan O'Connell, 25 Things You Should Know About Love
Tagged: Love, Unrequited Love, Relationships, Healthy Love
“Everyone wants to be loved. Everyone wants to rely on someone. For a lot of people, it’s their Achilles heel. Love is the reason why they made most of their mistakes.”
— Ryan O'Connell, 25 Things You Should Know About Love
Tagged: Love, Relationships, Equalizer, Mistakes
“Knowing what you don’t want can often be more valuable than knowing what you do want.”
— Ryan O'Connell, 19 Pieces Of Advice You’ll Need To Make It Through Your 20s
Tagged: Desire, Knowing What You Want, Life, Direction
“If you’re dating a jerk, you should dump them and then try to figure out why you’re attracted to jerks in the first place.”
— Ryan O'Connell, 19 Pieces Of Advice You’ll Need To Make It Through Your 20s
Tagged: Jerks, Dating, romance, Love, Life
“Somebody loves you if they don't mind the quiet. They don't mind running errands with you or cleaning your apartment while blasting some annoying music. There's no pressure, no need to fill the silences.”
— Ryan O'Connell, How To Tell If Somebody Loves You
Tagged: Love
“Your full size bed is filled with magazines, your computer, and crumbs. Basically everything but a warm human body.”
— Ryan O'Connell, 12 Signs That You Need To Get Laid
Tagged: Sexually Frustrated, magazines, computer, Alone
“The only way you can ensure having a good future is by living a good present. That’s it. That’s the secret to getting exactly what you want out of life.”
— Ryan O'Connell, Why You Shouldn’t Be So Freaked Out About Your Future
Tagged: Future, present, live in the moment, Life
“Having self-love is like nurturing a plant. If you don't take the time to water it, if you start to skip days and get distracted, it will die.”
— Ryan O'Connell, I'm Special: And Other Lies We Tell Ourselves
Tagged: Self-Love, Growth, Persistence
“I was starting to understand that nothing in this life is owed to me and that it's quite possible to sabotage yourself if you don't pay attention.”
— Ryan O'Connell, I'm Special: And Other Lies We Tell Ourselves
“Love will make you into the best and worst version of yourself, often in the same night.”
— Ryan O'Connell, 25 Things You Should Know About Love
Tagged: Love, Relationships
“You’ll be jealous of everyone who’s more successful than you. That’s okay. Just transfer that jealousy into something productive, like working really hard so you can one day eclipse them and make them feel jealous of YOU.”
— Ryan O'Connell, 25 Things I’ve Learned In My 20s
Tagged: Jealousy, Success, Working Hard, Productivity
“The second time you fall in love with someone, you’re going to feel so relieved.”
— Ryan O'Connell, The Second Time You Fall In Love With Someone
Tagged: Love, Second Love, First Love, Relationships, Moving On
“Sometimes you will feel overwhelmed with emotion and want to cry during sex. That’s okay. You’re not crazy. There’s just a dick inside of you. We’ve all been there.”
— Ryan O'Connell, 10 Things No One Tells You About Sex
Tagged: Sex, Dicks, Love, Relationships
“Beating yourself up about a mistake you made is only going to make you more inclined to do it again. Just accept that it happened and move on.”
— Ryan O'Connell, 19 Pieces Of Advice You’ll Need To Make It Through Your 20s
Tagged: Mistakes, Fucking Up
“It doesn’t matter if you’re not currently where you want to be in your life. What matters is that you’re actively trying to achieve your goals rather than getting defeated.”
— Ryan O'Connell, 19 Pieces Of Advice You’ll Need To Make It Through Your 20s
Tagged: Life, Goals, Moving Forward
“Somebody loves you if they want you to be happy, even if that involves something that doesn't benefit them.”
— Ryan O'Connell, How To Tell If Somebody Loves You
Tagged: Love
“When you’re being honest, you can never completely murder your life. Lies kill but telling the truth, well, you might just survive.”
— Ryan O'Connell, Dead Sharks.
Tagged: Life, surviving, Honesty, Transparency, Being Honest, Quote of the Moment, how to murder your life
“Nothing is more revealing than going through a person's Facebook and seeing their first tagged photos.”
— Ryan O'Connell
Tagged: Social Media Jokes, Facebook Jokes, Digital Age Jokes, Funny Facebook Comments, Facebook
“If you’re someone who has issues with food, New Orleans isn’t the place for you. When traveling here, you have to just accept that you’re going to unleash your inner Kirstie Alley and gain weight.”
— Ryan O'Connell, Tits, Tears, And Frozen Daiquiris: A (Not So) Touristy Guide To New Orleans
Tagged: LOL
“Looking at what my father had written, I realized a comforting truth: being a fuckup in your twenties is totally timeless. ”
— Ryan O'Connell, I'm Special: And Other Lies We Tell Ourselves
Tagged: humor, Hot Mess, Twenties
“The things you have in your life that make you feel unlovable and small can go away. They have as much power as you give them.”
— Ryan O'Connell, The Twenties We All Deserve
Tagged: Life, Love, Self-Love, Being Loved, Unloveable, Self-Acceptance
“You’ll always care about your first love. That doesn’t make you crazy, it just makes you human. When relationships end, it’s not so cut and dry. You carry everyone you’ve ever loved into every relationship thereafter.”
— Ryan O'Connell, 25 Things I’ve Learned In My 20s
Tagged: Relationships, Love, First Love, Falling In Love
“You don’t get anything you want by subscribing to the social rules of today.”
— Ryan O'Connell, You Need To Go After The Things You Want
Tagged: Desire, Society, Change, Empowering
“You can try on different personalities like they're clothing for as long as you want, but I guarantee that the outfit you were originally wearing will always be the one that fits best.”
— Ryan O'Connell, I'm Special: And Other Lies We Tell Ourselves
Tagged: Personality, Self-Acceptance, Growing Up
“Getting angry at the world for your problems isn't going to bring you any closer to a dream job or relationship or whatever else you feel like you deserve. It's going to keep you thousands of miles away from it.”
— Ryan O'Connell, I'm Special: And Other Lies We Tell Ourselves
Tagged: Anger, Life, Growth, Relationships, Jobs
“You’re at a time in your life when it’s easier to figure out who you are by getting naked with someone.”
— Ryan O'Connell, 15 Reasons Why You Have Sex With Someone
Tagged: Sex, 20-Somethings, Life, Life and Sex
“Your orgasms from masturbating are becoming weak and depressing. Is it possible to fake an orgasm while jacking off? Don’t stick around to find out!”
— Ryan O'Connell, 12 Signs That You Need To Get Laid
Tagged: Sexually Frustrated, masturbating, Touching Yourself, orgasm
“The second time you fall in love with someone, you’re going to feel so relieved. When you get your heart broken for the first time, you can’t imagine loving someone else again or having someone else love you.”
— Ryan O'Connell, The Second Time You Fall In Love With Someone
Tagged: Second Chances, Falling In Love, Relationships, Dating, Relief, Heart Broken, Heartbreak
“I fall in love with ideas and fantasies rather than whole beings and then I sit here and wonder why I’m still alone. It’s because I don’t fucking pay attention. I’m too busy thinking about tomorrow that today falls through the cracks.”
— Ryan O'Connell, I’m Trying To Love You More
Tagged: Love, Fall in love, love & relationship, living now, living today, living tomorrow, Life, Living Fully
“Falling in love is nature’s drug and you can OD on it.”
— Ryan O'Connell, 25 Things You Should Know About Love
Tagged: Love, Drug, Relationships, Infatuation, Obsession
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