14+ Sara Benincasa Quotes On Education

Sara Benincasa is an American comedian, writer, and author. She is best known for her work in stand-up comedy, podcasting, and her books. She is an outspoken advocate for mental health awareness and LGBTQ+ rights, often incorporating her personal experiences into her comedy. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Sara Benincasa on love, education.

I've discovered that every time I've reached a milestone I think I'm there, but there's another there waiting for me. — Sara Benincasa

If you buy my book at Walmart, I don't want you to read it. I want you to set it on fire. Because that's what you just did with your money. When you buy a book through an indie-store, you put some money into an independent store and owner in your community. You've put some money into someone's life and someone's livelihood, into keeping the lights on, into helping them be alive. That's a great thing. — Sara Benincasa

What I really wanted wasn't what I thought I was supposed to want. It wasn't what people had told me I should want or that books and movies and TV had put across. What I really wanted was to be a working artist, which I am. — Sara Benincasa

I used to think that having lots of friends meant that you were happy. That's really not true. Having the right friends means that you're happy. — Sara Benincasa

Happy to me is not what I thought happy was. Happy is actually better, because it includes room for sadness. A definition of success must leave room for failure, because it's part of it. — Sara Benincasa

It's time to hand back responsibility for being an adult to everyone in the situation. You're not helping anybody by staying in a romantic relationship that isn't good for you or staying in a work relationship that sucks or staying in a friendship where you hate the other person. That's not helping anyone. — Sara Benincasa

One of the best practices in the manual of human existence is to assist people who need help when you can safely do so. The best people help those who need help. — Sara Benincasa

I do not, right now in this moment today, want to be married. After entertaining proposals, researching the cost of a wedding, and looking at friends who are married, I realized that if I do get married one day, I want it to be in the right situation with the right person. — Sara Benincasa

It's like there's this knowledge hanging in the air that one person has more power than the other, and we're supposed to pretend everything is nice and normal and equal, but in reality, luck or chance has showered benefits on one person that the other person couldn't dream of. — Sara Benincasa

The biggest strength is being able to have perspective. Get the distance, and it enables you to be able to laugh at yourself. — Sara Benincasa

When I go to the Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World, they have wonderful topiary in the shapes of characters. I apply the principle to my life. "Prune away that which is not a Disney princess!" I think Michelangelo said that. — Sara Benincasa

Most people don't want to work with liars. They'll work with a liar if the liar makes them money and gives them credit, but not if a person's lying extends to not making them money and not giving them credit. — Sara Benincasa

If friends are taking more from you than they're giving, it doesn't matter if they are in the throes of addiction. It does not matter if they are suicidal. It does not matter if they were nice to you when you were kids. It doesn't matter if you've told them things you've never told anybody else and only they can relate. If this person is draining you, this person is not right for you. — Sara Benincasa

When you're disappointed romantically - when people evolve or they move on, when somebody doesn't love you in the same way anymore or you don't love somebody in the same way - it's devastating. Just because you leave a relationship doesn't mean that you don't love that person. It doesn't mean that you don't miss that person terribly. — Sara Benincasa

Life Lessons by Sara Benincasa

1. Sara Benincasa teaches us to be unapologetically ourselves and to use humor to confront difficult topics.
2. She encourages us to be open to challenging conversations and to use comedy to break down social barriers.
3. Through her work, she shows us the power of using humor to bring attention to important issues and to create positive change.