As we grow up,
we learn that even the one person
that wasn't supposed to ever let you down,
probably will.
You will have your heart broken
probably more than once
and it's harder every time
You'll break hearts too
so remember how it felt when yours was broken
You'll fight with your best friend
You'll blame a new love
for things an old one did
You'll cry because time is passing too fast
and you'll eventually lose someone you love
So take too many pictures
laugh too much
and love like you've never been hurt
because every sixty seconds you spend upset
is a minute of happiness you'll never get back

"I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day."
Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln was once talking with a woman about how the North must treat the South. She disagreed with him, and said that she felt that we must destroy our enemies.
Lincoln replied, "What, madam? Do I not destroy them when I make them my friends?"

"Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a
wonderful stroke of luck." - good karma

"Whoever you are there is always some younger person who thinks you are perfect. There is some work that will never get done unless you do it. There is some one who would miss you if you were gone. And there is a place that you alone can fill." -J.M. Braude

"One's real life is often the life that one does not lead." -Oscar Wilde

"Very occasionally, if you really pay attention, life doesn't suck." -Joss Whedon

"A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort." -Herm Albright

"i was looking up at the night sky, and i could see everything. the stars.. planets.. galaxies. and i felt so small. like a tiny speck that is here for only one moment in time, and then gone. and while i'm here i want to be with my friends and the people i love, because, when i'm with you guys, i don't feel that small... that's what i learned."
- Boy Meets World -

WHATEVER YOU DO, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"There are 3 kinds of love: love, big love, and great love:Love you get over in 2 monthsBig Love you get over in 2 yearsGreat Love changes your life forever"

"The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time." - Abraham Lincoln

"He just grinned and said, "Some of us get dipped in flat, some in satin, some in gloss..." He turned to me. "But every once in awhile your find someone who's iridescent, and when you do, nothing will ever compare.""- Both from "Flipped" by Wendelin Van Draanen.

"Alrighty, then you'll want something inspirational. We just got the latest in the series: Chicken Soup For The Condemned To Hell Soul."- Both from "Bald In The Land Of Big Hair" by Joni Rodgers.

"Those who never get out of the boat never know what it's like to walk on water."-Ron Hutchcraft

"There are millions of people in the world but in the end it all comes down to one." -Crazy/Beautiful

"You owe it to yourself to see what you can get away with."Peg Bracken, The I Hate To Housekeep Book

Don’t ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive and then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.--Harold Whitman

"I'm going to smile and make you think I'm happy, I'm going to laugh, so you don't see me cry, I'm going to let you go in style, and even if it kills me- I'm going to smile"- unknown

"I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way."--Unknown

All human beings should try to learn before they die what they arerunning from, and to, and why.-- James Thurber

Marge: Homer, the plant called. They said if you don't show up tomorrow don't bother showing up on Monday. Homer: Woo-hoo. Four-day weekend.

"at the beep please leave your name, number, and a brief justification for the ontological necessity of modern man's existential dilemma and we'll get back to you."-reality bites

Remember, Red, hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things. And no good thing ever dies. shaw shank redemption

Time is too slow for those who wait,too swift for those who fear,too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice,but for those who love, time is eternity. ~Henry Van Dyke

"I believe in everything until it's disproved.So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons.It all exists, even if it's in your mind.Who's to say that dreams and nightmaresaren't as real as the here and now? "-John Lennon

"Every woman should have four pets in her life. A mink in her closet, a jaguar in her garage, a tiger in her bed, and a jackass who pays for everything"

"Every woman should have four pets in her life. A mink in her closet, a jaguar in her garage, a tiger in her bed, and a jackass who pays for everything"

"Every woman should have four pets in her life. A mink in her closet, a jaguar in her garage, a tiger in her bed, and a jackass who pays for everything"

"Every woman should have four pets in her life. A mink in her closet, a jaguar in her garage, a tiger in her bed, and a jackass who pays for everything"

Here is a great spiritual truth: The only time we ever "fail" at anything in our lives is when we walk away from a challenge before we've allowed it to teach us its lessons.-- Guy Finley

You always carry within yourself the very thing that you need forthe fulfillment of your life purpose.--Malidoma Some

"There are two types of people--those who come into a room and say, 'Well, here I am!' and those who come in and say, 'Ah, there you are.'" -- Frederick L Collins

"In great affairs men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small things they show themselves as they are." -- Nicholas Chamfort (1741-1794)

"Be careful, mate, not all sharks are in the water."--Adventure, Pagemaster

"You see in the end it is between you and God; it was never between you and them anyway." -Mother Theresa

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. -Mahatma Gandhi

"You don't get to choose, you just fall ... And you get this person who is all wrong and all right at the same time. And you know that you love them so much except sometimes they just drive you completely insane and no one can explain it and the reason its so confusing is because its love. but if love didn't have any challenges, what would be the point?"

"Never sign a valentine with your own name."--- Charles Dickens (1837)

"There's a difference between doing right because its right and doing right because it makes you special and superior." Billie, Where's Walky.

"Talk is cheap because supply exceeds demand."

"My heroes are those who've seen me crumble to my knees in desperation and let me fall, even if it killed them, because they understood that the only way I could ever become strong enough to live Life successfully meant having to excercise the muscles which make it possible for a person to survive on their own." - Carol Avila

The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle thanthe courage of a final moment, but it is no less than a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy. People do what they must--in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures--and that is the basis of all human morality.~John F. Kennedy

"I challenge anybody in their darkest moment to write what they're grateful for, even stupid little things like green grass or a friendly conversation with somebody on the elevator. You start to realize how rich you are." - Jim Carrey

"I'll show you how to do something onceI'll help you if you mess up twice but the third time you're on your own because that's how it is in the real world"- The mother in 'Ray'

why can't we pantomine,just close our eyes andsleep sweet dreams?-- "the great beyond" - r.e.m.

"A woman doesn't want to be told she looks nice. She wants to be told she's beautiful, sexy. The she looks outrageous. It doesn't matter if it's not true, because for the moment, when the words are said and the words are heard, it's the perfect truth." .. nora roberts

I always thought that there was this one perfect person for everybody in the world, you know, and when you found that person the rest of the world kind of magically faded away, and, you know, the two of you would just be inside this kind of protective bubble, but there is no bubble, I mean if there is you have to make it, I just think life is more than a series of moments, you know, we can make choices, and we can choose to protect the people we love, and that's what makes us who we are and those are the real memories ~Forces of Nature

The same stars and the same moon just keep shining. Terrible things happen, things too awful to believe. But the stars keep shining just the same. --"Anne Frank and I"

"You know... opinions are like assholes. Everybody has them and sometimes they stink." -uknown

so don't you sit upon the shorelines, and say you're satisfied, choose to chance the rapids and dare to dance the tides... [garth brooks]

one good thing about music - when it hits, you feel no pain. [bob marley]

perhaps we're too embarrassed to change or too frightened of the consequences of showing that we actually care. but why not risk it anyway? begin today. carry out a random act of seemingly senseless kindness, with no expectation or reward or punishment. safe in the knowledge that one day, someone somewhere might do the same for you. [princess diana]

i try to avoid looking forward or backward and try to keep looking upward. [charlotte bronte]

i really wish i was less of a thinking man and more of a fool not afraid of rejection. [billy joel]

"Some people are just born with tragedy in their blood." - Donnie* Darko

"Do you think Shakespeare was gritting his teeth and diligently trying to write Great Literature? Of course not. He was having fun. That's why he's so good.
If you want to do good work, what you need is a great curiosity about a promising question. The critical moment for Einstein was was when he looked at Maxwell's equations and said, what the hell is going on here?"-Paul Graham

"And so we will remember him all our lives. And even if we are occupied with most important things, if we attain to honour or fall into great misfortune — still let us remember how good it was once here, when we were all together, united by a good and kind feeling which made us, for the time, better perhaps than we are."-Alyosha, The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoyevsky

"I love waking up in the morning not knowing where I'm gonna go or who I'm gonna meet. Just the other night I was sleeping under a bridge, and now here I am, on the grandest ship in the world, having champagne with you fine people. I figure life's a gift, and I don't intend on wasting it."-Jack, Titanic

It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowing and there's this electricity in the air, you can almost hear it. And this bag was, like, dancing with me. Like a little kid begging me to play with it. For fifteen minutes. And that's the day I knew there was this entire life behind things, and... this incredibly benevolent force, that wanted me to know there was no reason to be afraid, ever. Video's a poor excuse, I know. But it helps me remember... and I need to remember... Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world I feel like I can't take it, like my heart's going to cave in. -American Beauty

"The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injusticeand tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, themaster calls a butterfly. "~ Richard Bach

"He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lampposts -- for support, rather than for illumination."

"Even a clock that does not work is right twice a day."

"Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate."

"Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung."-- Voltaire

"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 by your old nonsense."-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Build for yourself a strongbox, fashion each part with care. When it's strong as your hand can make it, put all your troubles there. Hide there all thought of your failures, and each bitter cup that you quaff. Lock all your heartaches within it, then sit on the lid and laugh."-- Bertha Adams Backus

"Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow."-- Helen Keller

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. –Confucius

And now that scared little girl no longer follows me wherever I go, I miss her. I do. Cause there are things I want to tell her...to relax, to lighten up, that it's all going to be okay. I want her to know that meeting people who like you, who understand you, who actually accept you for who you are, will become an increasingly rare occurance. These people contributed to who I am, they are with me wherever I go, and as history gets rewritten in small ways with each passing day, my love for them only grows. Because the truth is it was the best of times. Mistakes were made, hearts were broken, harsh lessons learned, but all that has receded into fond memory now. How does it happen? Why are we so quick for forget the bad and romanticize that good? Maybe it's because we need to believe that the time we spend together acutally meant something, that we were there for eachother in a time in our lives that defined us all, a time in our lives we will never forget. I can't swear this is exactly how it happened. But this is how it felt.~Joey(Dawson's Creek)

"My goal is not to wake up at forty with a bitter realization that I wasted my life at a job I hate because I was forced to decide on a career in my teens. -Daria

"Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live."-- Norman Cousins

"Maybe this world is another planet's Hell." -Aldous Huxley

Women are like apples on trees. The best ones are at the top of the tree. Most men don't want to reach for the good ones because they are afraid of falling and getting hurt. Instead, they just take the rotten apples from the ground that aren't as good, but easy....... The apples at the top think something is wrong with them, when in reality, they're amazing. They just have to wait for the right man to come along, the one who's brave enough to climb all the way to the top of the tree. Share this with other women who are good apples, even those who have already been picked! Now Men.... Men are like a fine wine. They begin as grapes, and it's up to women to stomp the shit out of them until they turn into something acceptable to have dinner with.

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.~Dolly Parton

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
~Albert Schweitzer

"Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy." - Jim Hightower

"A man who won't die for something is not fit to live."-- Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

One of the most adventurous things left us is to go to bed. For no one can lay a hand on our dreams. -E. V. Lucas

"Trust not those...without some touch of madness." ~~ Thalia Zedek

You can stand tall without standing on someone. You can be a victor without having victims. - Harriet Woods -

Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase. -Martin Luther King, Jr.

"One who has lost confidence can lose nothing more." Boiste

I am done with great things and big things, great institutions and big success, and I am for those tiny invisible molecular moral forces that work from individual to individual by creeping through the crannies of the world like so many rootlets, or like the capillary oozing of water, yet which, if you give them time, will rend the hardest monuments of man's pride.--William James

"You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life." - Winston Churchill

Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are not great because of their technique; they are great becaue of their passion. -Martha Graham

So many gods, so many creeds;So many paths that wind and wind,While just the art of being kindIs all the sad world needs. ~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox

"Embrace the moment. In the end, that's all we have. Trouble will come in its own time, it always does. But that's tomorrow. Give me today, and I will be happy."- Babylon 5

"We are all the sum of our tears. Too little and the ground is not fertile, and nothing can grow there. Too much, the best of us is washed away."- Babylon 5

"If you want to build a ship, don't herd people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea."- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“People are so busy dreaming the American dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they’re all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the age of human error.” –Florence King.

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them. --George Bernard Shaw Mrs. Warren's Profession, 1893

One day we'll say hello, and wish we never said goodbye. --unknown

"Nobody's last words have ever been, 'I wish I had eaten more rice cakes.'" --Amy Krouse Rosenthal

"If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased." --Katherine Hepburn

"If men knew what women laughed about, they would never sleep with us. --Erica Jong

You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions. -Mahfouz Naguib

It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out – it's the grain of sand in your shoe.~Robert Service

The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.~Henry Ward Beecher

Choose life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fucking big television. Choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players and electrical tin openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol, and dental insurance. Choose fixed interest mortgage repayments. Choose a starter home. Choose your friends. Choose leisurewear and matching fabrics. Choose DIY and wondering who the fuck you are on a Sunday morning. Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing, spirit crushing game shows, stuffing junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pishing your last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, fucked up brats you spawned to replace yourself. Choose a future. Choose life... But why would I want to do a thing like that? Renton, "Trainspotting"