"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