Life Lessons Quote by Ocean Vuong — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“God must be a season, grandma said, looking out at the blizzard drowning”

“Some nights you are the lighthouse / some nights the sea / what this means is that I don't know / desire other than the need / to be shattered & rebuilt / the mind forgetting / the body's crime of living”

“Don't we touch each other just to prove we're still here?”

“If we ever make it to shore, he says, I will name our son after this water. I will learn to love a monster”

“But why can't the language for creativity be the language of regeneration? You killed that poem, we say. You're a killer. You came into that novel guns blazing. I am hammering this paragraph, I am banging them out, we say. I owned that workshop. I shut it down. I crushed them. We smashed the competition. I'm wrestling with the muse. The state, where people live, is a battleground state. The audience a target audience. "Good for you, man" a man once said to me at a party, "you're making a killing with poetry. You're knockin' em dead.”

“The most beautiful part of your body”

“Invest your time and money in people who have the potential to improve their lives in some way, shape, or form. When you do that, you will come to understand that investing in others is not a waste of time at all.”

“Sometimes", said Miss Phillips, "the thing you dread doing the very thing you should do, just so you can stop thinking about it.”

“Do not compromise your values and principles. They are meant to guide and protect you as you aim to become successful.”

“Fight to protect your tribe, not to spite those who oppose your light. In any case, they are bound to see you rise.”

“Like all failed experiments, that one taught me something I didn’t expect: one key ingredient of so-called experience is the delusional faith that it is unique and special, that those included in it are privileged and those excluded from it are missing out.”

“Ah, but I was so much older then”