You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams -- Dr Seuss

…it don’t matter how poor you are as long as you’ve got something to love.--L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Windy Poplars

Behind every beautiful thing, there is some kind of pain.—Bob Dylan

"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 help 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." - One Tree Hill

"Love is like a glass door, sometimes you don't see it & it smacks you in the face"

"Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave." -Mary Tyler Moore

“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.”

"I do believe that when we face challenges in life that are far beyond our own power, it's an opportunity to build on our faith, inner strength, and courage. I've learned that how we face challenges plays a big role in the outcome of them.” -Sasha Azevedo

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one. ~ George Washington

"I keep thinking that there is some magic word or sentence that will cause him to wake up and realize that he loves me. If I thought that leaving him behind would force him to miss me, to notice just how much he needs me around, I'd walk away. But the truth is, there is no magic phrase, and he wouldn't even notice if I were gone; he'd let me keep walking, and never think to stop me. And that's what hurts the most - knowing that he would never, ever miss me."-Anonymous

When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me.-W. Somerset Maugham

"...there are two types of people in the world: those who prefer to be sad among others, and those who prefer to be sad alone." — Nicole Krauss (The History of Love: A Novel)

"Some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's gonna happen next."

"I lost you once, I think I can do it again. If I thought that's what you really wanted."- The Notebook

"Once upon a time in a galaxy not entirely unlike our own, there was a girl. There was nothing extraordinary about this girl. She was by her own estimation a relatively simple sort, yet she was cursed. For as long as she could remember, boys had been something of a disaster. Boys either fell too hard, too fast, or not at all. She had long since given up on the notion of a functional relationship, which is why, she was surprised to find herself in the company of a boy who made her feel as if the curse had been lifted."

A song can take you back instantly to a moment, or a place, or even a person. No matter what else has changed in you or the world, that one song stays the same, just like that moment.
~ Sarah Dessen

i make mistakes. that's what i do.
i speak without thinking,
i act without knowing. i drink so much
that i can barely walk.
i'm a fantastic lover though,
and an amazing friend.
--sex and the city.

"Look, in my opinion the best thing you can do is find a person who loves you for exactly what you are. Good mood, bad mood, ugly, pretty, handsome, what-have-you. The right person is still going to think the sun shines out of your ass. That's the kind of person that's worth sticking with." - Juno

they always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
-andy warhol

Knock,
And He’ll open the door.
Vanish,
And He’ll make you shine like the sun.
Fall,
And He’ll raise you to the heavens.
Become nothing,
And He’ll turn you into everything.
--Rumi

Style is when they're running you out of town and you make it look like you're leading a parade.
- William Battie

Yesterday was the first day of the rest of your life, and you messed it up again.
- Patrick Murray

"As soon as you put your art out there for people, someone will say, 'Because it is blue, I love it', and, for the exact same reason the next guy will say, 'Because it is blue, I hate it.' Once you understand that, there's freedom in the creative process. Otherwise, your creation is just a reaction to criticism."
—Yanni

To be nobody but yourselfin a world which is doing its bestnight and dayto make you everybody elsemeans to fight the hardest battlewhich any human being can fightand never stop fighting.-- E.E. Cummings.

“Do not lose hold of your dreams or asprirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live.”-Henry David Thoreau

Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you and scorn in the one ahead. -Mac McCleary

"Have you ever heard the riddle of the man, the bridge, and the boxes? The man had three boxes, each weighed five pounds. The man weighed 190. The bridge could only hold 200 pounds. How did the man cross the bridge with all his boxes?He juggled. He always kept one box in the air.The bridge is life. The boxes hold our feelings--our love, our joy, our pain, our loss. Everyone is crossing the bridge with more weight then we can bear. So we juggle."

We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. Joseph Campbell

Why do we continue to try to express the unexpressable? Maybe it is because we live with the hope that no matter how feeble our attempts, the message will still get across.
-Radio Free Roscoe

Out of clutter, find simplicityFrom discord, find harmonyIn the middle of difficulty, lies opportunity-Albert Einstein-

"I'd like to say people can change anything they want to; and that means everything in the world. People are running about following their little tracks. I am one of them. But we've all gotta stop... just stop following our own little mouse trail. People can do anything; this is something that I'm beginning to learn. People are out there doing bad things to each other; it's because they've been dehumanized. It's time to take that humanity back into the centre of the ring and follow that for a time. Greed... it ain't going anywhere! They should have that on a big billboard across Times Square. Think on that. Without people you're nothing." Joe Strummer

Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt. Chase after money and security and your heart will never unclench. Care about people’s approval and you will be their prisoner. Do your work, then step back. The only path to serenity. –Lao-Tze

"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good."- Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)

"Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down." - Jimmy Durante

"Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself." - Harvey Fierstein

"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."- Mark Twain

“There’s only one thing that will make them stop hating you. And that’s being so good at what you do that they can’t ignore you.”

"One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!" - Winston Churchill

"Happy is the man who know what to remember of the past, what to enjoy in the present,and what to plan for the future." -A. Gibson

"Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light.I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night." - Sarah Williams

We don't need anybody else to tell us what is real; inside each one of us is love, and we know how it feels.~ Paul McCartney

A bend in the road is not the end of the road... unless you fail to make the turn. ~Author Unknown

If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience. ~Robert Fulghum

"Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing." - Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. — Richard Bach

Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.-- Jules de Gaultier

"...and if you walk to the end of the block, there sits a Starbucks. And directly across the street -- in the exact same building as that Starbucks -- there is... another Starbucks. There is a Starbucks across the street from a Starbucks! And ladies and gentlemen, THAT is the end of the universe." - Lewis Black

The future has a way of arriving unannounced. -George Will

"Better to get up late and be wide awake than to get up early and be asleep all day"~anonymous~

There is no privacy that cannot be penetrated. No secret can be kept in the civilized world. Society is a masked ball, where everyone hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness. -albert schweitzer

Life doesn't turn out as we expect it to. When we come out into the world, our future seems as smooth and unmarred as virgin snow. It is an illusion, of course, and soon we weave a web of mistakes and failures as much as achievements and triumphs, and become used to walking on broken pavements rather than on paths of gold. It is what makes life so interesting, one quickly learns that one never knows what is going to happen next. -elizabeth aston

"When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'" - Don Marquis

I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. ~ Harper Lee

To want nothing is to get everything. (Martin Kojc)

"Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up."--Jesse Jackson

People are gonna hurt you, people will betray you - some asshole is gonna break your heart one day & someday you will be that asshole; some days you are gonna want to scream at the top of your lungs and kill everyone around you & the next day you might feel like you're on top of the world - friends will come and go but each one will have an impact on your life and teach something every day you're gonna learn something new, some things you might not want to know every mistake is the greatest lesson to learn * you will laugh until your stomach hurts; some people are gonna hate you, others will love you - either way it shouldn't matter but when the day is done all you need to do is sit back and laugh at this thing called Life.

"Find a guy who calls you beautiful instead of hot, who calls you back when you hang up on him, who will lie under the stars and listen to your heartbeat, or will stay awake just to watch you sleep. Wait for the boy who kisses your forehead, who wants to show you off to the world when you are in sweats, who holds your hand in front of his friends, who thinks you' re just as pretty without make-up on. One who is constantly reminding you of how much he cares and how lucky he is to have YOU.The one who turns to his friends and says, "thats her"."

You don't get harmony when everybody sings the same note. ~Doug Floyd

They say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you practice makes perfect. I wish they'd make up their minds. ~Wilt Chamberlain

"I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love."~Mother Teresa

"Laughter is the shortest distance between two people." -Victor Borge

"People living deeply have no fear of death." - Anais Nin

"It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." ~William Blake

"For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin.....But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be gotten through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid.Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life."~ Alfred Souza ~

"Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies."- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan.

Our lives have eternal significance. And no one—absolutely no one—is expendable.--Martin Bell, The Way of the Wolf

If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause and say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.-Martin Luther King, Jr

"For everything you have missed, you have gained something else." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.~ Theodore Roosevelt

“It’s silly,” Eilonwy added, “to worry because you can’t do something you simply can’t do. It’s like trying to make yourself taller by standing on your head.”
--Lloyd Alexander, The Book of Three

An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day."
--Irv Kupcinet

"The happiest people are those who think the most interesting thoughts. Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good company, good conversation, are the happiest people in the world. And they are not only happy in themselves, they are the cause of happiness in others."

William Lyon Phelps

"We live in an unhappy society. It's regrettably human. It moulds it's members into what they are and then judges them by what they've become." - Sheila MacKay Russell in "A Lamp Is Heavy",

I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center.

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., writer (1922- )

"dear god, i have no idea where i am going. i do not see the road ahead of me. i cannot know for certain where it will end. nor do i really know myself...and the fact that i think that i am following your will does not mean that i am actually doing so. but i believe this: i believe that the desire to please you does in fact please you. i hope i have that desire in everything i do. i hope i never persist in anything apart from that desire. and i know that if i do this, you will lead me by the right road, though i may know nothing about it at the time. therefore i will trust you always, for though i may be lost, i will not be afraid, because i know you will never leave me to face my troubles all alone." - thomas merton

Once upon a time a man whose ax was missing suspected his neighbor's
son. The boy walked like a thief, looked like a thief, and spoke like a
thief.
But the man found his ax while digging in the valley, and the next time he saw his neighbor's son, the boy walked, looked and spoke like any other child.

Lao-tzu, philosopher (6th century BCE)

"The trouble with so many of us is that we underestimate the power of simplicity. We have a tendency it seems to over complicate our lives and forget what's important and what's not. We tend to mistake movement for achievement. We tend to focus on activities instead of results. And as the pace of life continues to race along in the outside world, we forget that we have the power to control our lives regardless of what's going on outside."

- Robert Stuberg

We either make ourselves happy or miserable. The amount of work is the same.

Carlos Castenada, mystic and author (1925-1998)

I found one day in school a boy of medium size ill-treating a smaller boy.
I expostulated, but he replied: 'The bigs hit me, so I hit the babies; that's fair.'
In these words he epitomized the history of the human race.

Bertrand Russell, philosopher, mathematician, and author (1872-1970)

When there is an original sound in the world, it makes a hundred echoes.

-John A. Shedd

Flattery is like chewing gum. Enjoy it but don't swallow it.

Hank Ketcham, comic artist

“The tighter you squeeze, the less you have.” -- Zen Saying

"It is only when you are in true darkness that you can see the stars"

"Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few."

"The less people know about how sausages and laws are made, the better they'll sleep at night."

"Life is too deep for words, so don't try to describe it, just live it." -C.S. Lewis

"I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing
than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance."
-e.e. cummings

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

-- Albert Einstein

If you don't do what you love you'll never get where you want to be.

-- Dr Robert Ballard

"Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do."
-Voltaire

"Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age. "
-Jeanne Moreau

"There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel that no one else has a right to blame us. It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution."
-Oscar Wilde

"The point of living and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come." - Peter Ustinov

"I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is."

Hospitality is making your guests feel at home, even if you wish they were."
--Anonymous

Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can- there will always come a time when you will be grateful you did. ~ Sarah Caldwell

"The road of life twists and turns and no two directions are ever the same. Yet our lessons come from the journey, not the destination."
Don Williams, Jr.

"Only when the last tree has died and the last river has been poisoned and the last fish has been caught will we realize that we can't eat money."
-Cree Proverb

If you look like your passport photo, you probably need a holiday
- Anonymous