It’s officially midterm exam season at college campuses all over America. What was a relaxing start to the semester is now a chaotic time with exams, essays and projects. Fun nights out will quickly turn into all-nighters at the library, and healthy eating habits will turn into you eating Doritos locos tacos while ugly crying about calculus. Life will quickly become hellish, but here are some quotes to inspire you, keep you practical, and remind you that this is only temporary. There are definitely better times ahead. Hang in there, guys. It’ll be over before we know it (until finals week, that is. LOL).
1. “We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.”
-Dead Poet’s Society
2. “You must strive to find your own voice. Because the longer you wait to begin, the less likely you are to find it at all. Thoreau said, "Most men lead lives of quiet desperation." Don't be resigned to that.”
-Dead Poet’s Society
3. “You'll have bad times, but it'll always wake you up to the good stuff you weren't paying attention to.”
-Good Will Hunting
5. “I had a 1590 on my SAT, I got a 44 on my MCAT, and I have a 4.0 GPA from MIT. I thought I had my life mapped out, but then I remembered what my non linear equations professor once told me, always account for variable change.”
-21
6. “You know how everyone's always saying seize the moment? I don't know, I'm kinda thinking it's the other way around. You know, like the moment seizes us.”
-Boyhood
7. You thought we could be decent men in an indecent time. But you were wrong. The world is cruel, and the only morality in a cruel world is chance. Unbiased. Unprejudiced. Fair.
-The Dark Knight
8. “Success. It's got enemies. You can be successful and have enemies or you can be unsuccessful and have friends.”
-American Gangster
