I was born when she kissed me. I died when she left me. I lived a few weeks while she loved me.  -  In A Lonley Place

My heart didn't break into a thousand pieces after he left. Instead, I realized all the things he didn't do. He didn't want to hear my stories. He didn't ask me questions. He didn't smile when I was talking to him. He didn't hug me out of the blue to make me feel good. His hugs were always a preamble to something else and after he was gone, I wondered if he ever knew me at all. - Diane Les Becquets, Love, Cajun Style

Take it from me: love has all the lasting permanence of a rainbow --beautiful while it's there, and just as likely to have disappeared by the time you blink - Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

The body is a slave to it's impulses. But the thing that makes us human is what we can control. After the storm, after the rush, after the heat of the moment has passed, we can cool off and clean up the messes we made. We can try to let go of what was. - Greys Anatomy

Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him. - Aldous Leonard Huxley, Texts and Pretexts, 1932

Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forward. - Soren Kierkegaard

Sometimes it's easy to feel like you're the only one in the world who's struggling, who's frustrated, or unsatisfied, or barely getting by. But that feelings a lie. And if you just hold on, just find the courage to face it all for another day and 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 our 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

Maybe Romeo and Juliet were fated to be together, but just for a while, and then their time passed. If they could have known that beforehand, maybe it all would have been okay. I told Mrs. Snyder that when I was grown up, I'd take fate into my own hands. I wouldn't let some guy drag me down. Mrs. Snyder said that I'd be lucky if I ever had that kind of passion with someone, and if I did, we'd be together forever. Even now, I believe that for the most part, love is about choices. It's about putting down the poison and the dagger and making your own happy ending...most of the time. And sometimes, despite all your best intentions, fate wins anyway. - Greys Anatomy

Later that day I got to thinking about relationships. There are those that open you up to something new and exotic, those that are old and familiar, those that bring up lots of questions, those that bring you somewhere unexpected, those that bring you far from where you started, and those that bring you back. But the most exciting, challenging and significant relationship of all is the one you have with yourself. And if you can find someone to love the you you love, well, that's just fabulous. - Sex in the city

That's the thing about depression: A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight. But depression is so insidious, and it compounds daily, that it's impossible to ever see the end. The fog is like a cage without a key.  - Wrutzel, Prozac Nation

Pain. You just have to ride it out, hope it goes away on its own, hope the wound that caused it heals. There are no solutions, no easy answers. You just breathe deep and wait for it to subside. Most of the time, pain can be managed, but sometimes, the pain gets you when you least expect it. It’s way below the belt and doesn’t let up. Pain. You just have to fight through because, the truth is, you can’t outrun it. And life always makes more.- Greys Anatomy

When you fall in love, it is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then it subsides. And when it subsides, you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the desire to mate every second of the day. It is not lying awake at night imagining that he is kissing every part of your body. No, don't blush. I am telling you some truths. For that is just being in love; which any of us can convince ourselves we are. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away. Doesn't sound very exciting, does it? But it is!  - Captain Corelli's Mandolin

it`s okay to need each other.
that's what makes us strong.
that`s what makes us human.

you wanna know what living life to the fullest actually is? it's waking up on a monday morning with no complaints. it's knowing you always deserve to laugh. it's doing what feels right no matter what. it's doing what you want to, no matter how stupid you look. it's about being yourself, cause no one can tell you you're doing it wrong.

I'm gonna stop looking back and start moving on.
Learn how to face my fears.
Love with all of my heart, make my mark.
I wanna leave something here.
Go out on a ledge, without any net.
That's what I'm gonna be about.
Yeah, I wanna be running when the sand runs out.
Cause people do it everyday.
Promise themselves they're gonna change.
I've been there, but I'm changing from the inside out.
That was then and this is now.

don't be reckless with peoples hearts; & dont put up with those who are reckless with yours.

Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; They simply unveil them to the eyes of the world. - Bishop Westcott

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

Don't find love, let love find you. That's why it's
called falling in love, because you don't force
yourself to fall, you just fall.

The truth is, I can’t be with you like this. I mean, I know I said that I could, but I can’t. I just can’t compromise myself like that. I mean, I’m an emotional person. I feel things and I need to be able to get upset, and talk about how I’m feeling. I mean, that’s just, that’s who I am, and I can’t change it. I don’t want to. And the thing is, you knew that, you knew it, and you still pursued me. Because you want something with me. You just aren’t strong enough to have it. Which in a way makes you a coward. And the saddest part is that, one day you’re going to wake up, and you’re going to realized what you missed and its going to be too late. - Felicity

I quit pretending you were in love with me.

Want my advice? Stay mad as long as you can 'cause once you stop, it hurts like hell.

So, here I am, three years later and he's three feet away from me. I could say hello, but I don't want to disturb the memory.

I try and try to move on with my life, yet every part of me surrenders at the mention of his name. - JoAnne Golden

You're not friends. You'll never be friends. You'll be in love till it kills you both. You'll fight, and you'll shag, and you'll hate each other until it makes you quiver, but you will never be friends. - Buffy The Vampire Slayer

"When life keeps you in the dark, baby, that's when you start looking at the stars."
-Touched by an Angel

"Everything changes eventually. That's just the way life is, and you have no control over it. Like suddenly people who you thnk are always going to be there, they disappear. People die and they move away and they grow up."
-Dawson's Creek

"Sometimes when you want to believe so badly, you end up looking too hard."
-The X-Files

"For a kiss to be really good, you want it to mean something. You want it to be with someone that you can't get out of your head, so that when your lips finally touch you feel it everywhere. A kiss so hot and so deep you never want to come up for air. You can't cheat your first kiss. Trust me, you don't want to. Because when you find that right person for a first kiss, it's everything."
-Grey's Anatomy

"When you do everything you can, sometimes more than you thought you could, you've got to walk away knowing you fought the good fight."
-ER

"Sometimes it's the smallest decisions that can change your life forever."
-Felicity

"Sometimes letting go is the only way to move forward."
-Smallville

"Sometimes the hardest thing to do is to do nothing."
-CSI

"Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason."
-Seinfeld

"The more things change, the more they stay the same. I'm not sure who the first person was who said that. Probably Shakespeare. Or maybe Sting."
-Everwood

Happy (Early) Thanksgiving!

Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where your backbone ought to be. - Clementine Paddleford

There is something demoralizing about watching two people get more and more crazy about each other, especially when you are the only extra person in the room.

I don't care about anyone, and the feeling is quite obviously mutual. - Sylvia Plath

Ask me why I keep on loving you when it's clear that you don't feel the same way for me... the problem is that as much as I can't force you to love me, I can't force myself to stop loving you. - Author Unknown

Not all wounds are superficial. Most wounds run deeper than you can imagine. You can't see them with the naked eye. And then there are the wounds that take us by surprise. The trick with any kind of wound or disease is to dig down and find the real source of the pain - and once you've found it, try like hell to heal that sucker. - Grey's Anatomy

Men are haunted by the vastness of eternity. And so we ask ourselves: will our actions echo across the centuries? Will strangers hear our names long after we are gone, and wonder who we were, how bravely we fought, how fiercely we loved? -Troy 

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before beginning to improve the world. - Anne Frank

 Sometimes the littlest things in life are the hardest to take.  You can sit on a mountain more comfortable than on a tack. - Unknown

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom. - Soren Kierkegaard

The dreamer is one who can find his way only by moonlight and his punishment is that he sees dawn before the rest of the world. - Oscar Wilde

Love is a puzzle.  You're frantically trying to put together the pieces to find the right ones that fit.  The puzzle is made up of your family, your friends, the people around you that care about you.  But there's always that one piece that's missing, and when you find that specific piece, you don't let it sit all by itself; you pair it off with its correct fit.  And when those pieces fit together...it's an addition to a beautiful picture.  But that doesn't mean failed attempts are pointless.  Just because on the first attempt to fit the pieces together you don't get it right doesn't mean that you shouldn't try again.  It's the pain that lets us appreciate how perfect the match is.  If it wasn't for that pain, we would never understand what true love is.  You might find the missing piece on the first try, or on the fifth, but either way, you've found it and that should be beautiful enough.

There are no certainties where dreams are concerned. Some are achieved, but just as many sputter and die. And when they do, it's tempting to wonder why you ever dreamed at all. - Everwood

The most important thing is to be whatever you are without shame.  - Rod Steiger

Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream. - Malcolm Muggeridge

But what is the good of friendship if one cannot say exactly what one means? Anybody can say charming things and try to please and to flatter, but a true friend always says unpleasant things, and does not mind giving pain. Indeed, if he is really a true friend he prefers it, for he knows that then he is doing good. - Oscar Wilde

True friendship isn't about being there when it's convenient; it's about being there when it's not. - Unknown

Friendship is a living thing that lasts only as long as it is nourished with kindness, empathy and understanding. - Unknown

There's a time in your life when you realize who really matters, who never did, and who always will.

No matter how strong a friendship may be, it takes years to build the trust and seconds to destroy it.

Every problem has a gift for you in its hands. - Richard Bach

Sometimes people come into your life and you know right away that they were meant to be there, they serve some sort of purpose, teach you a lesson or help figure out who you are or what you want to become.You never know who these people may be; your roommate, neighbor, professor, long lost friend, lover or even a complete stranger who, when you lock eyes with them, you know that very moment that they will affect your life in some profound way. Sometimes things happen to you and at the time they may seem horrible, painful and unfair, but in reflection you realize that without overcoming those obstacles you would have never realized your potential, strength, will power or heart. Everything happens for a reason. Nothing happens by chance or by means of good or bad luck. Illness, injury, love, lost moments of true greatness and sheer stupidity all occur to test the limits of your soul. Without these small tests, if they be events, illnesses or relationships, life would be like a smoothly paved, straight, flat road to nowhere. Safe and comfortable but dull and utterly pointless. The people you meet who affect your life and the successes and downfalls you experience, they are the ones who create who you are. Even the bad experiences can be learned from...those lessons are the hardest and probably the most important ones. If someone hurts you, betrays you or breaks your heart, forgive them, for they have helped you learn about trust and the importance of being cautious to who you open your heart to. If someone loves you, love them back unconditionally, not only because they love you, but because they are teaching you to love and opening your heart and eyes to things you would have never seen or felt without them. Make every day count. Appreciate every moment and take from it everything that you possibly can, for you may never be able to experience it again. Talk to people you have never talked to before, and actually listen, let yourself fall in love, break free and set your sights high. Hold your head up because you have every right to.

So I'll walk the plank and jump with a smile. If I'm gonna go down I'll do it in style. And you won't see me surrender, you won't hear me confess. You've left me with nothing but I've worked with less.

Who are you to judge the life I live? I know I'm not perfect and I don't live to be. But, before you start pointing fingers, make sure your hands are clean.

To hate you have to hurt, to hurt you have to care.

Dealing with backstabbers, there was one thing I learned. They're only powerful when your back is turned.

Life can take your dreams and turn them upside down, friends will talk about you when you're not around, reality can really cut you down to size, but don't ever lose the light in your eyes.

Sometimes everything needs to fall apart before it can really fit together right.

If only for today, I am not afraid.

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Worry is a misuse of imagination.  - Dan Zadra

The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within - strength, courage, dignity. - Ruby Dee

If you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop digging. - Will Rogers

We would not be saying these bitter goodbyes if not for the sweet friendships and moments that we have shared.  In order for our lives to be complete, we have to experience both the bitter and the sweet - this day is only bitter because of the sweetness of what we're leaving behind.  The trick comes in accepting, and learning from, it all.  A bittersweet life is the only life worthwhile because the bitter helps you to understand how much the sweet meant- and how wonderful it will be when it comes again. -Class of 2005 graduation speech

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

Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye. - H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us. - J. R. R. Tolkien

We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly. - Sam Keen, from To Love and Be Loved

Forgive your enemies, but never, never forget their names. - John F. Kennedy

Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something. - Plato

The worst way to miss someone is to be sitting right beside them knowing you can't have them.

Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.

Never explain yourself. Your friends don’t need it and your enemies won’t believe it. - Belgicia Howell

When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one that has opened for us.- Alexander Graham Bell

I hope that the days come easy and the moments pass slow,
And each road leads you where you want to go,
And if you're faced with a choice, and you have to choose,
I hope you choose the one that means the most to you.
And if one door opens to another door closed,
I hope you keep on walkin' till you find the window,
If it's cold outside, show the world the warmth of your smile,
But more than anything,
My wish, for you, is that this life becomes all that you want it to,
Your dreams stay big, and your worries stay small,
You never need to carry more than you can hold,
And while you're out there getting where you're getting to,
I hope you know somebody loves you, and wants the same things too,
This is my wish.
- "My Wish", Rascal Flatts

Nobody really cares if you're miserable, so you might as well be happy. - Cynthia Nelms

The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese. - Steven Wright

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Always be a first-rate version of yourself,
instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
-Judy Garland

[People] are not against you; they are merely for themselves.
- Gene Fowler

Life isn’t about living and then dying; it's about how many lives you can change while you're living, and then how many change after you're gone.

I generally avoid temptation, unless I can't resist it!
- Mae West

In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different. - Coco Chanel

Too often we are scared of what we might not be able to do, scared of what people might think if we tried. We let our fears stand in the way of our hopes. We say no when we want to say yes. We sit quietly when we want to scream. And we shout with the other when we should keep our mouths shut. Why? After all, we do only go around once. There’s really no time to be afraid.
- Barry Sanders

Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Love is stronger than death even though it can't stop death from happening, but no matter how hard death tries it can't separate people from love. It can't take away our memories either. In the end, life is stronger than death.

Remember if you ever need a helping hand, it's at the end of your arm, as you get older, remember you have another hand: the first to help yourself, the second to help others.
-Audrey Hepburn

Wait for the boy that pursues you. The one who will make an ordinary moment seem magical, the kind who brings out the best in you and makes you want to be the better person. Wait for the boy who will drop everything to be with you at anytime of the day, no matter what the circumstance. Wait for the boy who makes you smile and when he smiles you know that he needs you. But most of all, wait for the boy who will put you at the center of his universe because obviously he's at the center of yours.

Beauty is power; a smile is its sword. - Charles Reade

It's easier to act your way into a new way of thinking than to think your way into a new way of acting.

He who has help has hope, & he who has hope has everything. - Arab proverb

Making mistakes simply means you are learning faster. - Weston H. Ag

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere. - Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. - Voltaire

Everything you can imagine is real. - Pablo Picasso

It wasn't supposed to be this way. The artists, and the scientists, and the poets...none of them fit in at seventeen. You're supposed to get past it. Adults, they see kids killing kids and they know its a tragedy because they used to be those kids. The bullies and the beaten and the loners. You're supposed to get past it. You're supposed to live long enough to take it back. Just take it all back. -Mouth from One Tree Hill

There comes a point where you just love someone. Not because they’re good, or bad, or anything really. You just love them. It doesn’t mean you’ll be together forever. It doesn’t mean you won’t hurt each other. It just means you love them. Sometimes in spite of who they are, and sometimes because of who they are. And you know that they love you, sometimes because of who you are, and sometimes in spite of it.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride; so I love you because I know no other way. - Pablo Neruda

Do you remember the things you were worring about a year ago? How did they work you? Didn't you waste a lot of fruitless energy on account of most of them? Didn't most of them turn out all right after all? - Dale Carnegie