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Ryan O'Connell Quotes

Total quotes: 90
“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
“Do you want it bad enough? Does the fear of being filled with regret in your thirties trump your fear of living today?”
— Ryan O'Connell, You’re Not Making The Most Out Of Your 20s
Tagged: Life, chances, Regret, Taking Chances, Growing Up, 20s, 30s
“Life is so messy and difficult. The best you can really hope for is that you have a friend who anchors you and makes you feel safe. It helps if this friend has really great hair too.”
— Ryan O'Connell, You Can’t Get Through Your 20s Without A Best Friend
Tagged: Friendship, Love, Best Friends, Friends
“You will never love someone quite the same way you do the first time. In most cases, this is a good thing. The first time is fucking insane.”
— Ryan O'Connell, 25 Things You Should Know About Love
Tagged: Love, First Love, Relationships, Falling In Love
“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
“I stopped watching horror movies when I realized life is a horror movie.”
— Ryan O'Connell
Tagged: Horror Movies
“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
“Start your twenties with a lot of friends and leave with a few good ones. What happened? People faded away into their careers and relationships. Fights were had and never resolved. Shit happens.”
— Ryan O'Connell, How To Be A 20-Something
Tagged: 20s, Twenties, Twenty-Something, 20-something
“And I’m trying to cry too, but mostly because marriage means change and it means life is just turning into a series of vignettes, a few pops of Major Events before the ultimate nothing.”
— Ryan O'Connell, All My Friends Are Turning Thirty
Tagged: Marriage, This Is Thirty, Death
“Where were you the first time sex left you hating yourself? When was the first time sex left you feeling drained instead of full, warm, and happy?”
— Ryan O'Connell, Something Like A Love Poem
Tagged: Sex
“More people would like to have sex with you than you might think. If you’re ever in doubt, you should just assume that someone would be okay with seeing you naked.”
— Ryan O'Connell, 10 Things No One Tells You About Sex
Tagged: Sex, Naked, Relationships, Lust
“You will do things that hurt you just because you’re not ready to feel good yet.”
— Ryan O'Connell, 15 Guaranteed Things That Will Happen To You In Your 20s
Tagged: Life, Pain, Suffering
“If you’re feeling depressed and you’re not sure why, there’s a 70% chance you just need to leave your apartment and be social.”
— Ryan O'Connell, 19 Pieces Of Advice You’ll Need To Make It Through Your 20s
Tagged: Extroversion, Life, depressed
“The only good reason to go into debt is for traveling. Not Isabel Marant boots or expensive groceries.”
— Ryan O'Connell, 19 Pieces Of Advice You’ll Need To Make It Through Your 20s
Tagged: travel, Debt, Money
“As far as I can tell, there are three guarantees in life: death, taxes, and someone deciding they don't love you anymore.”
— Ryan O'Connell, I'm Special: And Other Lies We Tell Ourselves
Tagged: Pessimism, Harsh Truths, Reality Check
“All of those fears you had in the past, those vintage anxieties that kept you up in 2004, where are they now? That’s right, they’re gone. You killed all of them. You got over it. You lived.”
— Ryan O'Connell, Why You Shouldn’t Be So Freaked Out About Your Future
Tagged: Future, Fear, Anxiety
“There are so many people in this world who make you feel like an alien. When you find someone who "gets it," you don't take it for granted.”
— Ryan O'Connell, I'm Special: And Other Lies We Tell Ourselves
Tagged: Friendship, Relationships, People, Love
“It's a damn dream when you find someone you can do nothing with. Whether you're skydiving together or sitting at home and doing different things, it's always comfortable. That is fucking love.”
— Ryan O'Connell, How To Tell If Somebody Loves You
Tagged: Love
“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
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