"It's not what's happening to you now or what has happened in your past that determines who you become. Rather, it's your decisions about what to focus on, what things mean to you, and what you're going to do about them that will determine your ultimate destiny."

"every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day. wisdom consists in not exceeding that limit."-elbert hubbard

"Stop worrying where you're going-
Move on.
If you can know where you're going,
You've gone.
Just keep moving on.

I chose, and my world was shaken-
So what?
The choice may have been mistaken,
The choosing was not.
You have to move on."

"Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery."

- - Andy Warhol

“ I guess I have a very lose interpretation of ‘work,’ because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don’t always want to do. ” Andy Warhol

"It is only the gay and innocent and heartless who can fly …"

When the solution is simple, God is answering.

- Albert Einstein

"I don't always feel lucky but I am smart enough to try" ani difranco

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions, all life is an experiment-ralph waldo emmerson

"Stay true to yourself because there are very few people who will stay true to you." - ?

"I don't need anyone to take advantage of my weaknesses or my strengths. I need someone who will appreciate me for everything I am." - ?

"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could, some blunders and absurdities have crept in: forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with old nonsense." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new beginning." - Carl Bard

"Wise men talk because they have something to say. Fools talk because they have to say something." - Plato

If we do not come to know what we lack, we do not search to find it, and we remain unwhole, in the darkness that we mistook for light.

—In the Hand of Dante, Nick Tosches.

"...I think it's about the need to escape yourself for 15 minutes that everyone feels. But what it's really about is something more sinister. It's the idea that we now lead virtual lives. We live our joys and sorrows and foibles through the lives of public people. It's about the end of art. Because art has to take its cue from life."

-John Malkovich, 1999
in an interview about the film "Being John Malkovich"

"The problems we face will not be solved by the minds that created them."

~Albert Einstein

"In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all, and it often comes
with bitter agony. Pefect relief is not possible, except with time.
You ccannot now believe that you will ever feel better. But this is not
true. You are sure to be happy agin. Knowing this, truly believing it,
will make you less miserable now. I have had enough experience to make
this statement." Abraham Lincoln

"The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it." Chinese Proverb

Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by
midnight. Extend them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster.
Your life will never be the same again. ~ Og Mandino, The Greatest Miracle in
the World ~

"An eye for an eye would make the whole world blind."
--Mahatma Gandhi

"When we hate our enemies, we are giving them power over us: power over our sleep, our appetites, our blood pressure, our health, and our happiness. Our enemies would dance with joy if only they knew how they were worrying us, lacerating us, and getting even with us! Our hate is not hurting them at all, but our hate is turning our own days and nights into a hellish turmoil"
--Dale Carnegie

I don't know if you've ever felt like that. That you wanted to sleep for a thousand years. Or just not exist. Or just not be aware that you do exist. Or something like that. I think wanting that is very morbid, but I want it when I get like this. That's why I'm trying not to think. I just want it all to stop spinning.
-The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Is it better to be loved or feared? People are more likely to screw over the people they love than people they fear.

"Unsinkable ships sink. Unbreakable walls break. Sometimes the things you think could never happen, happen just like that. Unbendable steel bends, if the fury of the wind is unstoppable... I've learned never to underestimate the impossible." -Joe Nichols

"You were born an original. Don't die a copy." -John Mason

"I believe that everything you do comes back to you. So everything that I do that's bad, I'm going to suffer for it. But in my heart I believe that what I'm doing is right, so I feel like I'm going to heaven." -Tupac

"It's who you love, it's where you've been, it's who you say, and touch within." -Sheila Divine

"Your can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand." -The Velveteen Rabbit

The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.
-John Steinbeck, novelist, Nobel laureate (1902-1968)

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

-Herman Melville

People are always telling me to smile, like smiling is gonna take away all the hurt and all the pain. Well, I've tried that. I've tried hiding my sorrows, and covering the sadness in my smile. What I've learned is when it hurts this much inside; your heart always has a way of showing it, no matter how many masks you wear.

It's amazing, some people, they just say these small little things, one sentence and it changes the way you feel about them in an instant. Small little words that can hurt you so much or make you fall deeply in love forever. It changes everything, nothing between you is ever really the same again, even if they don't know it, it still happens.

"this is something they should tell u when ur a child. your life doesn't last forever. you can die in a few days, months, years or even worse, in a few minutes. you don't know what ur furture holds. and they should tell u that. you could be going to meet your husband, cross the street and get hit by a bus. so what are you waiting for? take every chance, say everything you want to say. don't argue over stupid things. your waisting ur time. this is ur life, and it doesn't last forever"

Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given then to explore the power they have to change it.
Impossible is not a fact. It's an option. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary.



Impossible is nothing.

It does not do to dwell on dreams...and forget to live.

-Professor Albus Dumbledore
Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone

"Love comes not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly."

“Man has one tyrant, Ignorance.” - Victor Hugo

"Know your limits, not so that you can honour them, but so that you can smash
them to pieces and reach for magnificence."
--Cherie Carter-Scott

"In the depth of winter, I finally learned that there was within me an invincible summer." ~Albert Camus

There's an old saying that if you come back to the place where you became a man, you will remember all those things you need to be happy... That saying never made sense to me, but I thought it was worth a try.

-- One Who Waits to Ed (2.2)

If you're going through hell, keep going.
--Sir Winston Churchill

"i think its kind of funny, and i think its kind of sad, that the dreams in which i'm dying are the best i've ever had."
-- Tears for Fears - - Mad World--

There are certain people who are not meant to fit in your life, no matter how much you want them to be.

I wonder how many people never get the one they want, but end up with the one they're supposed to have -Fried Green Tomatoes

When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear.--Mark Twain

I only like two kinds of men: foreign and domestic.--Mae West

Chocolate is no ordinary food. It is not something you take or leave, something you like only moderately. You don't LIKE chocolate. You don't even LOVE chocolate. Chocolate is something you have an affair with.

To love another person is to see the face of God.--Les Miserables

There's nothing like the deep breaths after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore stomach for the right reasons."--The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Men are like a deck of cards. You'll find the occasional king, but most are jacks.--Laura Swenson

"Anything that i've done that was ultimately worthwhile...initially scared me to death"

"Get everything you need, and then give it up for what you want, then you can say you have had a fufilling life"

Other people will try to make you misrable; don't help them by doing the job yourself.

Every one drives fast in L.A. out of sheer self-defense.

"America is like a melting pot. The ones at the bottom get burned, and the scum floats to the top."

~Charlie King

I hate women who complain about being fat when they're like a size five. Anything under a size five isn't a woman, it's a boy with breasts.

-"Obsidian Butterfly"

Love sucks. Sometimes it feels good. Sometimes it's just another way to bleed.

-"Blue Moon"

Those people who tell you not to take chances, they are all missing
out on what life is about. You only live once, so take hold of the chance."-Metallica

"What's amazing is when you can feel your life going somewhere, like
your life just figured out how to get good, like, that second."
-- Angela

"What I, like, dread is when people who know you in completely
different ways end up in the same area. You have to develop this,
like, combination you on the spot."
-- Angela

When I was little I, like, worshipped Halloween. And truthfully, part of me still does. 'Cause it's your one chance all year to be someone else.

Love is when you look into someone's eyes, and suddenly, you go all the way inside, to their soul... and you both know, instantly. I always imagined I would fall in love, nursing a blind soldier. Who was wounded in battle. Or maybe while rescuing someone in the middle of a blizzard, seconds before the avalanche hits. I thought, at least, by the age of fifteen, I would have a love life. But, I don't even have a "like" life.

The worst feeling is suddenly realizing that you don't measure up. And that, in the past, when you thought you did, you were a fool.

Sometimes it seems like we're all living in some kind of prison. And the crime is how much we hate ourselves. It's good to get really dressed up once in a while. And admit the truth: that when you really look closely? People are so strange and so complicated that they're actually... beautiful. Possibly even me. -My So Called Life

It just seems like...you agree to have a certain personality or something. For no reason. Just to make things easier for everyone. But when you think about it... I mean, how do you know it's even you? And this whole thing with the yearbook - it's like, everybody's in this big hurry to make this book... to supposedly remember what happened, but it's not even what really happened. It's what everybody thinks was *supposed* to happen. Because if you made a book of what *really* happened, it'd be a really upsetting book. - My So Called Life

My life's work has been to prompt others and be forgotten. Remember that night when Christian came to your balcony? That moment sums up my life. While I was below in the shadows, others climbed up to kiss the sweet rose. -Cyrano de Bergerac

everyone i know
goes away in the end

"You don't get to choose, you just fall [in love]. And you get this person whose all wrong and all right at the same time. And it just works"-Party of Five

"Sometimes new love comes between old friends. Sometimes the best love was the one that was always there."-Reality Bites

"The people you care about you never really say goodbye to"-The Real World

"Everyone is strange and beautiful in their own way"-My So Called Life

"People always say how you should be yourself. Like your self is this definite thing, like a toaster or something. Like you know what it is even. But every so often, I'll have, like a moment when being myself, and my life, like, right where I am, is like, enough"-My So Called Life

"Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies"-The Shawshank Redemption

"Real love hurts; Real love makes you totally vulnerable and open; Real love will take you far beyond yourself; Therefore real love will devastate you. If love does not shatter you, You do not know love"

"We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go,we take a little of each other everywhere"-Tim McGraw

"Success is like death. The more successful you become,the higher the houses in the hills get and the higher the fences get"-Kevin Spacey

"Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted"-John Lennon

"Through all the happiness and sorrow
I guess I'd do it all again
Live for today and not tomorrow
It's still the road that never ends"
-Ozzy Osbourne

A big part of growing up is learning to do the right thing, even if it means breaking someone's heart... Including your own.

How is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?

- François Duc de La Rochefoucauld

You can’t just sit down and talk about the truth. It doesn’t work that way. You have to live it and be part of it and you might get to know it.
--Rolling Thunder, CHEROKEE

There is one purpose to life and one only: to bear witness to and understand as much as possible of the complexity of the world - its beauty, its mysteries, its riddles. The more you understand, the more you look, the greater is your enjoyment of life and your sense of peace. That's all there is to it. If an activity is not grounded in 'to love' or 'to learn,' it has no value.

-Anne Rice

Auden, W. H.: "Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh."

Like most intellectuals, he's intensely stupid.
Dangerous Liaisons (Marquise de Merteuil)

"A lot of horrible, unfair, untrue things have been said about me. I can only say that the best revenge is success"-- Kate Moss

Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You can't put on make-up, or dress yourself, or do you hair with any sort of fun or joy if you're doing it from a position of correction.
--Kevyn Aucoin

I am not interested in money. I just want to be wonderful. --MM

I used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood night- there must be thousands of girls sitting alone like me, dreaming of becoming a movie star. But I'm not going to worry about them. I'm dreaming the hardest. --Marilyn Monroe

"It's the people who are not seen who change art and culture and fashion and music. It's the people who are constantly pushed away who change the world." - Morrissey, I think..

"You never have sex the way people do in the movies. You don't do it on the floor, you don't do it standing up, you don't always have all your clothes off, you don't happen to have on all the sexy lingerie. You know, if anybody ever ripped my clothes, I'd kill them."

I've made my mistakes. I've had my ups and downs, my ins and outs, and definately my share of bad breaks. BUT when it's all said and done..I'll raise a glass over my head and swear to god its all been fun.

"Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect." -- Margaret Mitchell

I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty, even if they're not much to look at, or even if they're sort of stupid, you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are. - JD Salinger

"If you're going to lie, lie for a friend. If you're going to cheat, cheat death. If you're going to steal, steal a heart."

"There are millions of people out there. But in the end, it all comes down to one. I still panic sometimes, forget to breathe...But I know.. I know there’s something beautiful.. in all my imperfections. A beauty which he held up for me to see. A strength that can never be taken away."
--Kirsten Dunst : Crazy / Beautiful

"Get into the habit of laughing; too many of us have forgotten
how to laugh. As people grow older, they sometimes forget
that they ever laughed. It is a part of their childhood
that they can no longer remember."
~ Maxwell Maltz

the best things in life are always unseen
thats why we close our eyes when we
~ * c r y k i s s & d r e a m * ~

You see life is like that...we change, that's all. You see, the guy I am now, is not the guy I was then. If the guy I was then met the guy I am now, he'd beat the shit out of me. Those are the facts~ SLC Punk

"It's only after you've lost everything
that you're free to do anything." ~Fight Club~