Chris Colfer Quotes That Will Inspire You to Live Your Best Life

1. High School. Society’s bright idea to put all their aggressive, naive youth into one environment to torment and emotionally scar each other for life. Struck By Lightning: The Carson Phillips Journal

2. I always laugh at the term 'Cinderella story', because, if you ask me, it doesn't matter what life you're living, life never has a solution. No matter how hard the struggles are that you leave behind, new struggles always take their place. The Wishing Spell

3. Sweetheart, happily ever after does exist, it’s just not what you think, he said. Happily ever after isn’t a solution to life’s problems or a guarantee that life will be easy; it’s a promise we make ourselves to always live our best lives, despite whatever circumstance comes our way. When we focus on joy in times of heartbreak, when we choose to laugh on the days it’s hard to smile, and when we count our blessings over our losses—that’s what a true happily ever after is all about. You don’t get there by being perfect; on the contrary, it’s our humanity that guides us. And that’s what fairy tales have been trying to teach us all along. Worlds Collide

4. There's no solution to life, there's going to be problems no matter what.

5. What grinds me the most is we're sending kids out into the world who don't know how to balance a checkbook, don't know how to apply for a loan, don't even know how to properly fill out a job application, but because they know the quadratic formula we consider them prepared for the world`With that said, I'll admit even I can see how looking at the equation x -3 = 19 and knowing x =22 can be useful. I'll even say knowing x =7 and y= 8 in a problem like 9x - 6y= 15 can be helpful. But seriously, do we all need to know how to simplify (x-3)(x-3i)??And the joke is, no one can continue their education unless they do. A student living in California cannot get into a four-year college unless they pass Algebra 2 in high school. A future psychologist can't become a psychologist, a future lawyer can't become a lawyer, and I can't become a journalist unless each of us has a basic understanding of engineering.Of course, engineers and scientists use this shit all the time, and I applaud them! But they don't take years of theater arts appreciation courses, because a scientist or an engineer doesn't need to know that 'The Phantom of the Opoera' was the longest-running Broadway musical of all time.Get my point? Struck By Lightning: The Carson Phillips Journal

6. When one thing takes another away, what do we call that? she asked my class. Homicide! I called out Struck By Lightning: The Carson Phillips Journal

7. Does it get better when you're older?""It did for me," Connor said."How?" Bolt asked."Someone lese believed in me," Connor said. "All it took was one person's approval and suddenly I believed in myself, too. It gave me a shield to block out all the doubt and negativity. It made me realize I was just as capable and deserving as the people I compared myself to. But you know what? I was wrong.""You were?" Bolt asked."Totally," Conner said. "I didn't NEED someone else. I had confidence in myself, deep down inside, the whole time. Approval is just a shortcut to self-worth, but sometimes we have to find things out on our own. Sometimes if we want something bad enough, we have to inspire ourselves to get it. Sometimes we have to be our own superhero. An Author's Odyssey

8. My grandpa had a saying before he died: You can hope in one hand, shit in the other, and see which is filled first. Struck By Lightning: The Carson Phillips Journal

9. Only tears of the damned can soothe the eyes of the cursed. Worlds Collide

10. Right now, we're living in an ugly chapter of our lives, but books always get better! The Wishing Spell

11. Sometimes we forget about our own advantages because we focus on what we don't have. Just because you have to work a little harder at something that seems easier to others doesn't mean you're without your own talents. The Wishing Spell

12. You can't let the darkness consume you," Froggy told himself. "there is too much you'll miss out on if you give in to it!... Worlds Collide