"You may not be her first, her last, or her only. She loved before, she may love again. But if she loves you now, what else matters? She's not perfect - you aren't either, and the two of you may never be perfect together but if she can make you laugh, cause you to think twice, and admit to being a human and making mistakes, hold onto her and give her the most you can. She may not be thinking about you every second of the day, but she will give you a part of her that she knows you can break - her heart. So don't hurt her, don't change her, don't analyze and don't expect more than she can give. Smile when she makes you happy, let her know when she makes you mad, and miss her when she's not there." - BOB MARLEY
"I mean I don't know how to not have fun. I'm dying and I'm having fun. And I'm going to keep having fun every day I have left. Because there's no other way to play it. You just have to decide if you're a Tigger or an Eeyore. I think I'm clear where I stand on the great Tigger/Eeyore debate. Never lose the childlike wonder. It's just too important. It's what drives us." - RANDY PAUSCH
"I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love. I felt in myself a superabundance of energy which found no outlet in our quiet life." - LEO TOLSTOY
"Maybe there won't be marriage, maybe there won't be sex, but by God there'll be dancing!" - MY BEST FRIEND'S WEDDING
"We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope." - MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.
"Relationships don't work they way they do on television and in the movies. Will they? Won't they? And then they finally do, and they're happy forever. Gimme a break. Nine out of ten of them end because they weren't right for each other to begin with, and half of the ones who get married get divorced anyway, and I'm telling you right now, through all this stuff I have not become a cynic. I haven't. Yes, I do happen to believe that love is mainly about pushing chocolate covered candies and, y'know, in some cultures, a chicken. You can call me a sucker, I don't care, because I do believe in it. Bottom line: it's couples who are truly right for each other wade through the same crap as everybody else, but the big difference is they don't let it take them down. One of those two people will stand up and fight for that relationship every time. If it's right, and they're real lucky, one of them will say something." - DR. COX, SCRUBS
"There is never a sudden revelation, a complete and tidy explanation for why it happened, or why it ends, or why or who you are. You want one and I want one, but there isn't one. It comes in bits and pieces, and you stitch them together wherever they fit, and when you are done you hold yourself up, and still there are holes and you are a rag doll, invented, imperfect. And yet you are all that you have, so you must be enough. There is no other way." - MARYA HORNBACHER, WASTED: A MEMOIR OF ANOREXIA AND BULIMIA
"Drink wine...this is life eternal;
this is all that youth will give you.
It is the season for wine, roses and drunken friends.
Be happy for this moment; this moment is your life...." - OMAR KHAYYAM
"The magician seemed to promise that something torn to bits might be mended without a seam, that what had vanished might reappear, that a scattered handful of doves or dust might be reunited by a word, that a paper rose consumed by fire could be made to bloom from a pile of ash. But everyone knew that it was only an illusion. The true magic of this broken world lay in the ability of the things it contained to vanish, to become so thoroughly lost, that they might never have existed in the first place." - MICHAEL CHABON, THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF KAVALIER AND CLAY
"I know. I know that I shall never again meet anything or anybody who will inspire me with passion. You know, it's quite a job starting to love somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. There is even a moment, in the very beginning, when you have to jump across a precipice: if you think about it you don't do it. I know I'll never jump again." - JEAN-PAUL SARTRE, NAUSEA
"Care more than others think wise.
Risk more than others think safe.
Dream more than others think practical.
Expect more than others think possible."
"I think I’m like a chickpea. I like chicks (both the fowl and the slang) and I like peas, canned or frozen. I’m attracted to both with the same intensity. I long for vegetable consumption as well as being spooned by another" - JASON MRAZ
"What I want is to be needed. What I need is to be indispensable to somebody. Who I need is somebody that will eat up all my free time, my ego, my attention. Somebody addicted to me. A mutual addiction." - CHUCK PALAHNIUK
"To overcome your doubt, believe you are beautiful. Look at yourself through someone else's green eyes. Believe someone out there will find you and kiss your skin until you can feel it blister with the heat. Believe in something bigger than your problems and you will be saved. Look up at the beautiful "melon sky." It will answer all your questions. It will unite us against the machine. My best friend taught me the best way to battle the machine is to ignore it. Ignore the obnoxious hipsters. Ignore those who will put you in a box because of what country you were spat out of. Ignore the judgemental indie rockers. Ignore the trenchcoat mafia. Ignore the right wing fanatics. Ignore anyone who rubs you the wrong way. Ignore me if you need to but don't ignore love. It's what I am fighting for." - MAX BEMIS
"I will greet this day with love in my heart.
And how will I do this? Henceforth will I look on all things with love and I will be born again. I will love the sun for it warms my bones; yet I will love the rain for it cleanses my spirit. I will love the light for it shows me the way; yet I will love the darkness for it shows me the stars. I will welcome happiness for it enlarges my heart; yet I will endure sadness for it opens my soul. I will acknowledge rewards for they are my due; yet I will welcome obstacles for they are my challenge." - OG MANDINO
"I can sum up everything I've learned about life in three words: it goes on." - ROBERT FROST
"I think that the power is the principle. The principle of moving forward, as though you have the confidence to move forward, eventually gives you confidence when you look back and see what you've done." - ROBERT DOWNEY JR.
"I wasn't worried about whether I was going to go insane, I was very well aware that I was insane." - ROBERT DOWNEY JR.
"If there's one thing I know about myself, it's that I have never and will never drop the ball when the chips are down. I pride myself on that. The higher the stakes are, the happier I am, the better I will be." - ROBERT DOWNEY JR.
"I have to thank Burger King. It was such a disgusting burger I ordered. I had that, and this big soda, and I thought something really bad was going to happen." - ROBERT DOWNEY JR.
"I'm not a ball in a pinball machine. I know what I want." - EMILE HIRSCH
"I think I've always been half out of my shell and half in. Sometimes I can be extremely wild and sometimes I can be extremely shy. It just depends on the day." - EMILE HIRSCH
"We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations." - ANAIS NIN
"The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers." - M SCOTT PECK
"It's not so much that we're afraid of change or so in love with the old ways, but it's that place in between that we fear...It's like being between trapezes. It's Linus when his blanket is in the dryer. There's nothing to hold on to." - MARILYN FERGUSON
"I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better." - GEORGE C LICHTENBURG
"Be strong, saith my heart. I am a soldier; I have seen worse sights than this." - ODYSSEUS, THE ODYSSEY
"Certain things, they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases. I know that's impossible, but it's too bad anyway." - CATCHER IN THE RYE
"Expect people to do better than they are;
it helps them to become better;
but don't be disappointed when they are not;
it helps them to keep trying." - MERRY BROWNE
"If you want to really hurt your parents, and you don't have the nerve to be gay, the least you can do is go into the arts. I'm not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something." - UNKNOWN
"'God is love,' she said. 'And He respects love, whether it's between a parent and child, a man and woman, or friends...Live your life right...Love with all your heart. Don't hurt others, and help those in need. That's all you need to know.'" - ELLEN HOPKINS, BURNED
"There are pieces of me all over this planet that I am trying to find but sometimes I worry what will happen when I find all of the pieces. When my fingers have to stretch so far to keep everything connected. Maybe my limbs will fall off and I won't exist anymore. But everything that I've touched will stay. Maybe it will be different than it started. Don't you love my idealism? My hypocrisy? My willingness to sound as loving and naive as possible? At least I know that I don't know anything at all. I can admit it. Can you? Can you look yourself in the mirror in the morning and admit that you are no different from every other bundle of bones on this planet? And maybe the only things that make you different are your hands, the way you touch things, and what happens to them." - ZOE TROPE, PLEASE DON'T KILL THE FRESHMAN
"A lot of people are waiting for Martin Luther King Jr. or Mahatma Gandhi to come back, but they are gone. We are it. It is up to us. It is up to you." - MARIAN WRIGHT EDDMON
"We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek." - BARACK OBAMA
"There is a river flowing now very fast. It is so great and swift that there are those who will be afraid. They will try to hold on to the shore. They will feel they are being torn apart, and they will suffer greatly. Know the river has its destination. The elders say we must let go of the shore, push off into the middle of the river, keep our eyes open, and our heads above the water. See who is in there with you and celebrate. At this time in history, we are to take nothing personally. Least of all, ourselves. For the moment that we do, our spiritual growth and journey comes to a halt. The time of the lone wolf is over. Gather yourselves! Banish the word struggle from your attitude and your vocabulary. All that we do now must be done in a sacred manner and in celebration. We are the ones we've been waiting for."
"The best thing you can do is find a person who loves you for exactly who you are. Good mood, bad mood, ugly, pretty, handsome, what have you. The right person is still going to think the sun shines out your ass. That's the kind of person that's worth sticking with." - JUNO
"By the yard, life is hard. By the inch, life's a cinch."
"Everyone who has ever taken a shower has had an idea. It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off, and does something about it that makes a difference." - NOLAN BUSHNELL
"I believe that the future sucks and I believe that the future rocks and I believe that one day White Buffalo Woman is going to come back and kick everyone's ass. I believe that all men are just overgrown boys with deep problems communicating and that the decline in good sex in America is coincident with the decline in drive-in movie theaters from state to state. I believe that all politicians are unprincipled crooks and I still believe that they are better than the alternative. I believe that California is going to sink into the sea when the big one comes, while Florida is going to dissolve into madness and alligators and toxic waste. I believe that antibacterial soap is destroying our resistance to dirt and disease so that one day we'll all be wiped out by the common cold like martians in War of the Worlds.
I believe that the greatest poets of the last century were Edith Sitwell and Don Marquis, that jade is dried dragon sperm, and that thousands of years ago in a former life I was a one-armed Siberian shaman. I believe that mankind's destiny lies in the stars. I believe that candy really did taste better when I was a kid, that it's aerodynamically impossible for a bumble bee to fly, that light is a wave and a particle, that there's a cat in a box somewhere who's alive and dead at the same time (although if they don't ever open the box to feed it it'll eventually just be two different kinds of dead), and that there are stars in the universe billions of years older than the universe itself.
I believe in a personal god who cares about me and worries and oversees everything I do. I believe in an impersonal god who set the universe in motion and went off to hang with her girlfriends and doesn't even know that I'm alive. I believe in an empty and godless universe of causal chaos, background noise, and sheer blind luck. I believe that anyone who says sex is overrated just hasn't done it properly. I believe that anyone who claims to know what's going on will lie about the little things too. I believe in absolute honesty and sensible social lies. I believe in a woman's right to choose, a baby's right to live, that while all human life is sacred there's nothing wrong with the death penalty if you can trust the legal system implicitly, and that no one but a moron would ever trust the legal system. I believe that life is a game, that life is a cruel joke, and that life is what happens when you're alive and that you might as well lie back and enjoy it." — NEIL GAIMAN (American Gods)
"In the silence, I remembered this one time that I never told anybody about. The time we were walking. Just the three of us. And I was in the middle. I don't remember where we were walking to or where we were walking from. I don't even remember the season. I just remember walking between them and feeling for the first time that I belonged somewhere." - THE PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER
Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over. - OCTAVIA BUTLER
"I want to thank everyone who said 'you can’t' and I want to thank everyone who said 'you won’t' cause guess what? I can, I will, and watch me!" - SHOSHANA BEAN
To a disciple who was forever complaining about others the Master said, "If it is peace you want, seek to change yourself, not other people. It is easier to protect your feet with slippers than to carpet the whole of the earth." -ANTHONY DE MELLO
"It was great seeing Annie again and I realized what a terrific person she was and how much fun it was just knowing her and I thought of that old joke, you know, the, this, this guy goes to a psychiatrist and says, 'Doc, uh, my brother's crazy, he thinks he's a chicken,' and uh, the doctor says, 'well why don't you turn him in?' And the guy says, 'I would, but I need the eggs.' Well, I guess that's pretty much now how I feel about relationships. You know, they're totally irrational and crazy and absurd and, but uh, I guess we keep going through it...because...most of us need the eggs." - ANNIE HALL
"Stop thinking of your body as a collection of flaws to apologize for."
"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel." - MAYA ANGELOU
"I guess in the end, things seldom work out the way you expect. Sometimes, fate is on your side. Other times, well, you've kind of sealed your own fate. Either way you have to trust that whatever's supposed to happen, will happen. Besides, somehow you always seem to end up with the person you're meant to be with." - SCRUBS
"Life is truly a ride. We're all strapped in, and no one can stop it.
As you make each passage from youth to adulthood to maturity,
sometimes you put your arms up and scream, sometimes you just hang
onto the bar in front of you. But the ride is the thing. I think the
most you can hope for at the end of life is that your hair's messed,
you're out of breath, and you didn't throw up." - JERRY SEINFELD
"The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them - words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they're brought out. But it's more than that, isn't it? The most important things lie too close to wherever your secret heart is buried, like landmarks to a treasure your enemies would love to steal away. And you may make revelations that cost you dearly only to have people look at you in a funny way, not understanding what you've said at all, or why you thought it was so important that you almost cried when you were saying it. That's the worst, I think. When the secret stays locked within not for the want of a teller but for the want of an understanding ear" - STEPHEN KING
"To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never, to forget." - ARUNDHATI ROY
"Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the Titanic who waved off the dessert cart." - ERMA BOMBECK
"I am thankful for my illness
Because it means people are falling in love with God" - Madison Winn
"Maybe that's what we look for in the people we love, the spark of unhappiness we think we know how to extinguish . . ." - ELECTION by TOM PERROTTA
"I'm a new girl. I wear a new perfume and you wouldn't know me if your eyes were closed. I'm done with the old me. I'm done analyzing." - JOHN MAYER
"In the end, we may think back and wish we had a second chance. To be able to go back and experience great things we remember loving. The kinds of things we'd lay in bed at night and stare at the ceiling thinking about - wiggling around our beds in complete darkness with a huge smile on our faces. The things we'd soak our pillows with. All the endless tears. All the people we'd loved 'till our hearts hurt, and friends we miss laughing until our sides ached with. One day there won't be a tomorrow, and all the endless wishing won't change that. If we all live today as if we've been given a second chance to do it all over again, I mean if we genuinely feel gifted to have today and the possibility of a great tomorrow, every breath would be so much more appreciated. Can you imagine? We are at the steering wheel. We are healthy, young, promising hearts with so much at our doorstep. Marriage, kids, careers, college, love, friendship, heartbreak, seasons, death. Our generation has a chance to tell the future how amazing our lives really were. Although life seems to be an endless stretch of days, going to and from work, eating, sleeping, cleaning etc...one day there will be no more days. At some point, winter will fade into spring and the last snow you'll ever see will fall. Tell the people you know that you love them. Make it known that you'd miss them if they were gone, because tomorrow isn't the guarantee it sometimes seems to be." - I DON'T KNOW
"And finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside, and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be, and could be, if there weren't any other people living in the world." - ANNE FRANK
"Talking about love is like dancing about architecture." -PLAYING BY HEART
"What she wanted was love, and the best way to go looking for it was through sex. But it never worked that way, and the sex just made her lonelier. I understood that, as it had made me lonelier too. I couldn’t ever remember being lonely before, certainly not in this way, until I had seen the edge of all the ways you could be with another person, which brought up all the myriad ways that person could never be there for you." - ANNE PATCHETT, TRUTH AND BEAUTY: A FRIENDSHIP
"It's everybody, I mean. Everything everybody does is so — I don't know — not wrong, or even mean, or even stupid necessarily. But just so tiny and meaningless and — sad-making. And the worst part is, if you go bohemian or something crazy like that, you're conforming just as much only in a different way." - FRANNY AND ZOOEY
"Because he knows you have to laugh at the things that hurt you just to keep yourself in balance, just to keep the world from running you plumb crazy" - KEN KESEY
"If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it." - JONATHON WINTERS
"Those awful things are survivable, because we are as indestructible as we believe ourselves to be. ... We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken. We cannot be born, and we cannot die. Like all energy, we can only change shapes and sizes and manifestations. They forget that when they get old. They get scared of losing and failing. But that part of us greater than the sum of our parts cannot begin and cannot end, and so it cannot fail." - LOOKING FOR ALASKA
"That is the fear: I have lost something important, and I cannot find it, and I need it. It is fear like if someone lost his glasses and went to the glasses store and they told him the world had run out of glasses and he would just have to do without." - LOOKING FOR ALASKA
"You spend your whole life stuck in the labrynth, thinking how you'll escape one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present." - LOOKING FOR ALASKA
"I would like to be soft and warm. I would be terrified to be that way. I could be hurt if I were soft and warm. I could be hurt by something other than myself. It is harder to be soft than it is to be hard. I could be hurt by something other than myself." - A MILLION LITTLE PIECES
"Star people are rare." - STARGIRL
"Hatred is so much closer to love than indifference." - WASTED, MARYA HORNBACHER
"You never come back, not all the way. Always there is an odd distance between you and the people you love and the people you meet, a barrier thin as the glass of a mirror, you never come all the way out of the mirror; you stand, for the rest of your life, with one foot in this world and no one in another, where everything is upside down and backward and sad." — WASTED, MARYA HORNBACHER
"There is only one you for all of time. Fearlessly be yourself." - ANTHONY RAPP
"One mistake can sometimes change your life forever; but, my dear sister, one mistake can't undo all the love that has come before."
"Doubt is useful for a while. We must all pass through the garden of Gethsemane. If Christ played with doubt, so must we. If Christ spent an anguished night in prayer, if He burst out from the Cross, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" then surely we are also permitted doubt. But we must move on. To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation." - LIFE OF PI
"We all perform. It's what we do for each other all the time, deliberately or unintentionally. It's a way of telling about ourselves in hope of being recognized as what we'd like to be." - RICHARD AVEDON
"The best moments in reading are when you come across something - a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things - that you'd thought special, particular to you. And here it is, set down by someone else, a person you've never met, maybe even someone long dead. And it's as if a hand has come out, and taken yours." - THE HISTORY BOYS
"When you hurt people, they begin to love you less. That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less." - THE GOD OF SMALL THINGS, ARUNDHATI ROY
"I really have no time for sour grapes or for individuals who want to dim someone else's light because it's shining brighter than theirs.
Honestly, the world can be a dark enough place. Light it up." - ANYTHING GOES, JOHN AND CAROLE BARROWMAN
"I told him, 'My faith in God right now is like a walk on the beach. I've taken off my shoes, and as I stand at the water's edge, the tide has started to roll across my feet. It feels wonderful. Up to this point my spiritual journey has been incredible, but in the last six months doubt has begun to paralyze me. It's like when the water goes back out to the ocean. It is washing away the sand underneath me, and my feet keep sinking lower and lower and lower. If this keeps up, there won't be anything left to stand on.'
Without hesitation he shot back, 'Brian, I have stood where you're standing. I've felt the water cascade across my feet. I know how wonderful that feels. But I've also had the water go back out to sea. I've felt the sand get washed out from underneath my feet.'
He paused - I think he heard me crying - before he slowly finished, 'Brian, listen to me when I say this. When the last grain of sand is finally gone, you're going to discover that you're standing on a rock.'" - SECOND GUESSING GOD, BRIAN JONES
"Nothing of the greater good comes without struggle and sacrifice in equal
measure, be you man or woman, and in this way are we freed from tyranny." - THE HERETICS DAUGHTER, KATHLEEN KENT
"Even though you may want to move forward in your life, you may have one foot on the brakes. In order to be free, we must learn how to let go. Release the hurt. Release the fear. Refuse to entertain your old pain. The energy it takes to hang onto the past is holding you back from a new life. What is it you would let go of today?" - MARY MANIN MORRISSEY
"All your life you are told the things you cannot do. All your life they will say you’re not good enough or strong enough or talented enough; they will say you’re the wrong height or the wrong weight or the wrong type to play this or be this or achieve this. THEY WILL TELL YOU NO, a thousand times no, until all the no’s become meaningless. All your life they will tell you no, quite firmly and very quickly."
And you will tell them yes." - NIKE
"If you hold back on the emotions—if you don’t allow yourself to go all the way through them—you can never get to being detached, you’re too busy being afraid." - TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE
"So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they’re busy doing things they think are important. This is because they’re chasing the wrong things. The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning." - TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE
"I don't think of all the misery, but of all the beauty that still remains." - ANNE FRANK
"If you don't like something, change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it." - MARY ENGELBREIT
"People do fall in love, people do belong to each other 'cause that's the only chance anyones got at real happiness." - BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S
"If there is ever a tomorrow when we are not together there is something you must always remember: you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem and smarter than you think, but most important of all, even if we are apart, I'll always be with you." - WINNIE THE POOH
"I'm in love with you. I'm sorry if that's weird for you to hear but I needed you to hear it. Probably not good timing, I know that, I just needed you to know. Once." - THE OFFICE
"I understand feelings as small and as insignificant as humanly possible, and how it can actually ache in places you didn't know you had inside you. And it doesn't matter how many new haircuts you get or gyms you join or how many glasses of Chardonnay you drink with your girlfriends, you still go to bed every night going over every detail and wonder what you did wrong or how you could have misunderstood. And how in the hell for that brief moment you could think that you were that happy. And sometimes you can even convince yourself that he'll see the light and show up at your door. And after all that--however long all that may be--you'll go somewhere new and you'll meet people who make you feel worthwhile again. And little pieces of your soul will finally come back. And all that fuzzy stuff, all those years of your life that you wasted, that will eventually begin to fade." - THE HOLIDAY
"You're not perfect, sport. And let me save you the suspense. This girl you met, she's not perfect either. But the question is, whether or not you're perfect for each other." - GOOD WILL HUNTING
"Love is passion, obsession, someone you can't live without. If you don't start with that, what are you going to end up with? Fall head over heels. I say, find someone you can love like crazy and who'll love you the same way back. And how do you find him? Forget your head and listen to your heart. Run the risk, if you get hurt, you'll come back. Because, the truth is, there is no sense living your life without this. To make the journey and not fall deeply in love, well, you haven't lived a life at all. You have to try. Because if you haven't tried, you haven't lived." - MEET JOE BLACK
"Things must happen when it is time for them to happen. Quests may not simply be abandoned; prophecies may not be left to rot like unpicked fruit; unicorns may go unrescued for a long time, but not forever. The happy ending cannot come in the middle of the story." - THE LAST UNICORN
"I am stronger than depression and I am braver than loneliness and nothing will ever exhaust me." - EAT, PRAY, LOVE
Everyday is another chance for you to decide who you want to be. A chance to challenge yourself. To be a different version of you, a braver version. A person who isn’t afraid to grab joy and take it for a spin." - MEN IN TREES
"Carpe diem! Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day;
live life to the fullest;
make the most of what you have.
It is later than you think."
- HORACE
"What makes life worth living is knowing that
one day you'll wake up and find the person that makes you
happier than anything in the whole world.
So don't ever lose hope and give up,
everything turns out okay and the good guy always wins."
"I don't wish to be everything to everyone,
but I would like to be something to someone."
- JAVAN
"I must learn to love the fool in me the one who feels too much,
talks too much, takes too many chances,
wins sometimes and loses often, lacks self-control,
loves and hates, hurts and gets hurt,
promises and breaks promises, laughs and cries."
- THEODORE ISAAC RUBIN
"After all these years, I am still involved in the process of self-discovery.
It's better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe.
Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life."
- SOPHIA LOREN
"By the time I reached the coffee-shop door, however, my self-confidence had collapsed. Panic had taken its place. I believed that I was the ugliest, dirtiest little old bum in Manhattan. If I went into the coffee shop, everybody would be nauseated. They would throw me out and tell me to go to the Bowery, where I belonged.
But I somehow found the courage to go in anyway - and imagine my surprise! It was as though I had died and gone to heaven! A waitress said to me, 'Honeybunch, you sit right down, and I'll bring you your coffee right away.' I hadn't said anything to her.
So I did sit down, and everywhere I looked I saw customers of every description being received with love. To the waitresses everybody was 'honeybunch' and 'darling' and 'dear.' It was like an emergency ward after a great catastrophe. It did not matter what race or class the victims belonged to. They were all given the same miracle drug, which was coffee. The catastrophe in this case, of course, was that the sun had come up again." - JAILBIRD, KURT VONNEGUT
"And so it is with happiness. When the talk of genetics and communal bonds and relative income is stripped away, happiness is a choice. Not an easy choice, not always a desirable one, but a choice nonetheless." - THE GEOGRAPHY OF BLISS, ERIC WEINER
"To me, it's really so simple, that life should be lived on the edge. You have to exercise rebellion. To refuse to tape yourself to the rules, to refuse your own success, to refuse to repeat yourself, to see every day, every year, every idea as a true challenge. Then you will live your life on the tightrope." - PHILIPPE PETIT
"The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself." - HENRY MILLER
"No one has ever become poor by giving" - ANNE FRANK
"True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righeousness" - ALBERT EINSTEIN
"Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air is not worth all the
suffering and effort which life implies" - ERICH FROMM
"We are all Michaealangelos." - TOM PETERS
"Anything less than mad, passionate, extraordinary love is a waste of your time. There are too many mediocre things in life to deal with and love shouldn't be one of them." - IONE SKY, DREAM FOR AN INSOMNIAC
"You don't have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body." - C.S. LEWIS
"In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people." - JUDY GARLAND
"Stop thinking this is all there is...Realize that for every on-going war and religious outrage and environmental devastation and bogus Iraqi attack plan, there are a thousand counter-balancing acts of staggering generosity and humanity and art and beauty happening all over the world, right now, on a breathtaking scale, from flower box to cathedral...Resist the temptation to drown in fatalism, to shake your head and sigh and just throw in the karmic towel...Realize that this is the perfect moment to change the energy of the world, to step right up and crank your personal volumel right when it all seems dark and bitter and offensive and acrimonious and conflicted and bilious...there's your opening. Remember magic. And, finally, believe you are part of a groundswell, a resistance, a seemingly small but actually very, very large impending karmic overhaul, a great shift, the beginning of something important and potent and unstoppable." - MARK MORFORD
"They lie about marijuana. Tell you pot-smoking makes you unmotivated. Lie! When you're high, you can do everything you normally do, just as well. You just realize that it's not worth the fucking effort. There is a difference"
"There are two kinds of people in this world: Michael Jackson fans and losers." - SETH GREEN
All I really need to know on how to live and what to do and how to be I learned in kindergarten. Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate-school mountain, but there in the sand pile at Sunday school. These are the things I learned… Share everything. Play fair. Don’t hit people. Put things back where you found them. Clean up your own mess. Don’t take things that aren’t yours. Say you’re sorry when you hurt somebody. Wash your hands before you eat. Flush. Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you. Live a balanced life- learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some. Take a nap every afternoon. When you go out into the world, watch out for traffic, hold hands, and stick together.Be aware of wonder. Remember the little seed in the Styrofoam cup: the roots go down and the plants go up and nobody really knows how or why, but we are all like that. Goldfish and hamsters and white mice and even the little seed in the Styrofoam cup- they all die. So do we. And then remember the Dick-And-Jane books- and the first word you learned- the biggest word of all- LOOK.Everything you need to know is in there somewhere. The Golden Rule and love and basic sanitation. Ecology and politics and equality and sane living. Take any one of those items and extrapolate it into sophisticated adult terms and apply it to your family life or your work or your government or your world and it holds true and clear and firm.Think what a better world it would be if we all- the whole world- had milk and cookies at about three o’clock and then lay down with our blankies for a nap. Or if all governments had a basic policy to put things back where they found them and clean up their own mess. And it is all true- no matter how old you are- when you go out into the world, it is best to hold hands and stick together. -ALL I REALLY NEED TO KNOW I LEARNED IN KINDERGARTEN, ROBERT FULGHUM
"The heart is always right-- if there's a question of choosing between the mind and the heart-- because mind is a creation of the society. It has been educated. You have been given it by the society, not by existence. The heart is unpolluted." - OSHO
"From now on, I'll connect the dots my own way." - CALVIN AND HOBBES
"You can spend minutes, hours, days, weeks, or even months over-analyzing a situation: trying to put the pieces together, justifying what could've, would've happened...Or you can just leave the pieces on the floor and move the fuck on" - TUPAC
"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, "Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?" Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we're liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others." - MARIANNE WILLIAMSON
"Here is the deepest secret nobody knows. Here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows higher than soul can hope or mind can hide. And this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart... I carry your heart, I carry it in my heart" - EE CUMMINGS
"You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are living. Then you read a book, or you take a trip, and you discover that you are not living, that you are hibernating. The symptoms of hibernating are easily detectable: first, restlessness. The second symptom (when hibernating becomes dangerous and might degenerate into death): absence of pleasure. That is all. It appears like an innocuous illness. Monotony, boredom, death. Millions live like this (or die like this) without knowing it. They work in offices. They drive a car. They picnic with their families. They raise children. And then some shock treatment takes place, a person, a book, a song, and it awakens them and saves them from death." - ANAIS NIN
"Life is too short, grudges are a waste of perfect happiness. Laugh when you can, apologize when you should, let go of what you can't change, love deeply, forgive quickly, take chances, give everything and have no regrets. Life is too short to be unhappy. You have to take the good with the bad, smile when you're sad, love what you've got and remember what you had. Always forgive but never forget, learn from your mistakes but never regret. People change and things go wrong but always remember that life goes on."
"Relationships-of all kinds-are like sand held in your hand. Held loosely, with an open hand, the sand remains where it is. The minute you close your hand and squeeze tightly to hold on, the sand trickles through your fingers. You may hold onto some of it, but most will be spilled. A relationship is like that. Held loosely, with respect and freedom for the other person, it is likely to remain intact. But hold too tightly, too possessively, and the relationship slips away and is lost."
Conditions are never perfect. ‘Someday’ is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you. If it’s important to you and you want to do it ‘eventually’, just do it and correct the course along the way.
— TIM FERRISS, THE TIMING IS NEVER RIGHT
"Sometimes it seems like you are the only one in the world who's struggling, who's frustrated, unsatisfied, barely getting by. But that feeling's a lie. And if you just hold on, just find the courage to face it all for another day, someone or something will find you and make it all okay. Because we all need a little help sometimes-someone to helps us hear the music in their world, to remind us that it won't always be this way. That someone is out there. And that someone will find you." - LUCAS SCOTT
"When I was a kid, I would get these headaches and I went to the doctor and they said that I needed glasses. I didn’t understand that, it didn’t make sense to me because I could see fine. And then I get the glasses and I put them on and I’m in the car on the way home and suddenly I yell. The green big blobs I’ve been staring at my whole life… They weren’t green big blobs, they were leaves on trees. I could see the leaves, and I didn’t even know that I was missing the leaves, I didn’t even know that leaves existed and then… leaves! You are the glasses." - GREY'S ANATOMY
"'The part that stumps me, really stumps me, is that I can't see why anybody - unless he was a child, or an angel, or a lucky simpleton like the pilgrim - would even want to say the prayer to a Jesus who was the least bit different from the way he looks and sounds in the New Testament. My God! He's only the most intelligent man in the Bible, that's all! Who isn't he head and shoulders over? Who? Both testaments are full of pundits, prophets, disciples, favorite sons, Solomons, Isaiahs, Davids, Pauls - but, my God, who besides Jesus really knew which end was up? Nobody. Not Moses. Don't tell me Moses. He was a nice man, and he kept in beautiful touch with his God, and all that - but that's exactly the point. He had to keep in touch. Jesus realized there is no separation from God.' Zooey here clapped his hands together only once, and not that loud, and very probably in spite of himself. His hands were refolded across his chest almost, as it were, before the clap was out. 'Oh, my God, what a mind,' he said. 'Who else, for example would have kept his mouth shut when Pilate asked for an explanation? Not Solomon. Don't say Solomon. Solomon would have had a few pithy words for the occasion. I'm not sure Socrates wouldn't have, for that matter. Crito, or somebody, would have managed to pull him aside just long enough to get a couple of well-chosen words for the record. But most of all, above everything else, who in the Bible besides Jesus knew - knew - that we're carrying the Kingdom of Heaven around with us, inside, where we're all too goddamn stupid and sentimental and unimaginative to look?'" - FRANNY AND ZOOEY
"‘I Wanna Hold Your Hand.’ First single. Fucking brilliant. Perhaps the most fucking brilliant song ever written. Because they nailed it. That’s what everyone wants. Not 24-7 hot wet sex. Not a marriage that lasts a hundred years. Not a Porsche or a blow job or a million-dollar crib. No. They wanna hold your hand. They have such a feeling that they can’t hide. Every single successful love song of the past fifty years can be traced back to ‘I Wanna Hold Your Hand.’ And every single successful love story has those unbearable and unbearably exciting moments of hand-holding. Trust me. I’ve thought a lot about this." - NICK AND NORAH'S INFINITE PLAYLIST
"Go be that starving Artist you’re afraid to be. Open up that journal and get poetic finally. Volunteer. Suck it up and travel. You were not born here to work and pay taxes. You were put here to be part of a vast organism to explore and create. Stop putting it off. The world has much more to offer than what’s on 15 televisions at TGI Fridays. Take pictures. Scare people. Shake up the scene. Be the change you want to see in the world. You’ll thank yourself for it." - JASON MRAZ
"Sometimes when you least expect it, you realize that someone loved you. And that means someone can love you again." - HOMER SIMPSON
"Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over, it became a butterfly."
"I want to bust the world wide open the way you do when you're filled with youth. I want to engage with lovers and people and fellow cops. I want to be physical, and I also want to ask the big questions. I want to taste the tastes and fix the problems. I want to run headlong into chaos and bad guys and darkness and friends and fun and laugh, laugh, laugh. I want to be the best friend, and I want to be the greatest aunt and the most complicated daughter. I want to be the mystery in the room, and I want to be known." - Unknown
"Love is not a feeling, it's an ability." - Dan in Real Life
"What don't I understand, Cara? Please, help me out. What is it? Is it frustrating that you can't be with this person? That there's something keeping you apart? That there's something about this person that you can connect with? And whenever you're near this person, you don't know what to say, and you say everything that's in your mind and in your heart, and you know that if you could just be together, that this person would help you become the best possible version of yourself?" - Dan in Real Life
"You know that feeling in your heart? When your heart is just pounding, like it's actually outside your ribs. Exposed, venerable, but wonderful and awful, and heartsick, and alive, all at the same time?" - Dan in Real Life
"If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it." - Jonathan Winters
"It's never too late to be what you might have been." - George Eliot
"Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional"
"Who gets to determine when the old ends and the new begins? It's not on the calendar, it's not a birthday, it's not a new year, it's an event - big or small, something that changes us, ideally it gives us hope, a new way of living and looking at the world, letting go of old habits, old memories. What's important is that we never stop believing that we can have a new beginning, but it's also important to remember amid all the crap there are a few things really worth holding on to." - Grey's Anatomy
"To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself." - Soren Kierkegaard
"A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved."- Kurt Vonnegut
"The best moments in reading are when you come across something - a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things - that you'd thought special, particular to you. And here it is, set down by someone else, a person you've never met, maybe even someone long dead. And it's as if a hand has come out, and taken yours." - The History Boys
"There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more." - Lord Byron
"It’s weird that whatever else is on your mind, whether it’s the downfall of global economics or terrible environmental troubles, the thing that always gets you most is when you fancy someone." - Chris Martin
"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them." - Henry David Thoreau
"Somebody like you can really make things all right for me." - Requiem for a Dream
"This is your one opportunity to do something that no one has ever done before and that no one will copy throughout human existence. and if nothing else, you will be remembered as the one guy who ever did this. this one thing." - Sam; Garden State
"Nothing in this world that's worth having comes easy." -Scrubs
"I love you more than I love make believe :)"
"I am Me. In all the world, there is no one else exactly like me. Everything that comes out of me is authentically mine, because I alone chose it. I own everything about me: my body, my feelings, my mouth, my voice, all my actions, whether they be to others or myself. I own my fantasies, my dreams, my hopes, my fears. I own my triumphs and successes, all my failures and mistakes. Because I own all of me, I can become intimately acquainted with me. By so doing, I can love me and be friendly with all my parts. I know there are aspects about myself that puzzle me, and other aspects that I do not know — but as long as I am friendly and loving to myself, I can courageously and hopefully look for solutions to the puzzles and ways to find out more about me. However I look and sound, whatever I say and do, and whatever I think and feel at a given moment in time is authentically me. If later some parts of how I looked, sounded, thought, and felt turn out to be unfitting, I can discard that which is unfitting, keep the rest, and invent something new for that which I discarded. I can see, hear, feel, think, say, and do. I have the tools to survive, to be close to others, to be productive, and to make sense and order out of the world of people and things outside of me. I own me, and therefore, I can engineer me. I am me, and I am Okay."
Virginia Satir, American Psychotherapist and Educator, 1916-1988
"Somewhere someone is thinking of you. Someone is calling you an angel. This person is using celestial colors to paint your image. Someone is making you into a vision so beautiful that it can only live in the mind. Someone is thinking of the way your breath escapes your lips when you are touched. How your eyes close and your jaw tightens with concentration as you give pleasure a home. These thoughts are saving a life somewhere right now. In some airless apartment on a dark, urine stained, whore lined street, someone is calling out to you silently and you are answering without even being there. So crystalline. So pure. Such life saving power when you smile. You will never know how you have cauterized my wounds. So sad that we will never touch." - HENRY ROLLINS
"Go after her. Fuck, don’t sit there and wait for her to call, go after her because that’s what you should do if you love someone, don’t wait for them to give you a sign cause it might never come, don’t let people happen to you, don’t let me happen to you, or her, she’s not a fucking television show or tornado. There are people I might have loved had they gotten on the airplane or run down the street after me or called me up drunk at four in the morning because they need to tell me right now and because they cannot regret this and I always thought I’d be the only one doing crazy things for people who would never give enough of a fuck to do it back or to act like idiots or be entirely vulnerable and honest and making someone fall in love with you is easy and flying 3000 miles on four days notice because you can’t just sit there and do nothing and breathe into telephones is not everyone’s idea of love but it is the way I can recognize it because that is what I do. Go scream it and be with her in meaningful ways because that is beautiful and that is generous and that is what loving someone is, that is raw and that is unguarded, and that is all that is worth anything, really."
"Children starve while boots costing many thousands of dollars leave their mark upon the surface of the moon." - Watchmen
"But even animals that were bred in zoos and have never known the wild, that are perfectly adapted to their enclosures and feel no tension in the presence of humans, will have moments of excitement that push them to seek escape. All living things contain a measure of madness that moves them in strange, sometimes inexplicable ways. This madness can be saving; it is part and parcel of the ability to adapt. Without it, no species would survive." - Life of Pi
"the difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves, but how she's treated. I shall always be a flower girl to Professor Higgins, because he always treats me as a flower girl, and always will; but I know I can be a lady to you, because you always treat me as a lady, and always will." - Eliza Doolittle, Pygmalion, George Bernard Shaw
"I love you also means I love you more than anyone loves you, or has loved you, or will love you, and also, I love you in a way that no one loves you, or has loved you, or will love you, and also, I love you in a way that I love no one else, and never have loved anyone else, and never will love anyone else." — Jonathan Safran Foer
"Do not look back and grieve over the past, for it is gone, and do not be troubled about the future, for it has yet to come. Live in the present, and make it so beautiful that it will be worth remembering." — Ida Scott Taylor
"You have to have your heart broken. That's the reality of life and if you are protected from this sadness, then how can you grow? How can you recognize real happiness when you see it?" — Marion Cotillard
When it hurts to look back and you are scared to look ahead, you can look beside you and your best friend will be there. - Unknown
"Fairy tales, are more than true. Not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be defeated." — G.K. Chesterton
"I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman." - Anais Nin
"There are two ways to reach me: by way of kisses or by way of the imagination. But there is a hierarchy: the kisses alone don't work." Henry and June
"You are feeling sorry? Why? Have you lost something? It’s an illusion - you have nothing to lose. Everything that comes to you comes to pass, literally. So let all things pass and you will turn the illusion of loss into the reality of liberation…and sorrow will be a distant memory."
