- "time you enjoy wasting was not wasted." john lennon.
- "there's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be." all you need is love, the beatles.
- "you are never given the ability to dream without getting the ability to make it come true." mickey mouse.
- "the greatest thing in life isn't having a purpose, it's finding a purpose."
- "you know what? fuck beauty contests. life is one fucking beauty contest after another. you know school, then college, then work. fuck that. and fuck the air force academy. if i wanna fly i'll find a way to fly. you do what you love and fuck the rest." dwayne hoover, little miss sunshine.
- "fear is a good thing, it means you're paying attention." tamora pierce, page.
- "i'm wrong about most people so...""the important thing is you always change your mind about 'em." tibby and bailey, the sisterhood of the traveling pants.
- "monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. they live inside us and sometimes they win." stephen king.
- "it's these cards, and the movies and the pop songs, they're to blame for all the lies and the heartache, everything... people should be able to say how they feel, not, you know words that some stranger put in their mouth. words like love that don't mean anything." tom hansen, 500 days of summer.
- "the opposite of war isn't peace, it's creation." marc cohen, rent.
- "i think there seems to be a need for escapism at the moment. maybe that's the type of world we're living in. it's a sanctuary, in a way, where you can immerse yourself in something that doesn't exist, whether that's tv shows or comic books or novels. it's not solely down to magic and vampires - that's in at the moment. but escapism, being a part of other worlds, is very good for you." colin morgan.
- "nothing is permanent in this world, not even our troubles." charlie chaplin.
- "i tore these out of your symbol and they turned into paper, but i wanna put them back." river tam.
- "it's almost as if our society values opinions more than it values knowledge." hank green.
- "derek says it's always good to end a paper with a quote. he says someone else has already said it best. so if you can't top it, steal from them and go out strong." danny vinyard, american history x.
- "everybody has a secret world inside of them. all of the people of the world, i mean everybody. no matter how dull and boring they are on the outside, inside them they’ve all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds. not just one world. hundreds of them. thousands maybe." neil gaiman.
- "if things start happening, don't worry, don't stew, just go right along and you'll start happening too." dr. seuss.
- "sometimes i can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives i’m not living." jonathan safran foer, extremely loud & incredibly close.
- "things were happening all around us but nothing was happening between us." jonathan safran foer, extremely loud & incredibly close.
- "what a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person." john green, paper towns.
- "she loved her mother an depended on her mother, and yet every single word her mother said annoyed her." ann brashares, sisterhood everlasting.
- "she knew that when she got old it would be more fun to look back on a life of romance and adventure than a life of quiet habits. but looking back was easy. it was the doing that was painful." ann brashares, sisterhood everlasting.
- "religion is not the opiate of the masses. religion is the placebo of the masses." dr gregory house.
- "sometimes the world we have is not the world we want but we have our hearts and imaginations to make the best of it." elizabeth bishop. fringe.
- "of course, it is happening inside your head harry, but why on earth should that mean that it's not real?" albus dumbledore. harry potter and the deathly hallows.
- "it’s not that I don’t like people. it’s just that when i’m in the company of others - even my nearest and dearest - there always comes a moment when i’d rather be reading a book." maureen corrigan.
- "the companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds which hardly any later friend can obtain.” mary shelley, frankenstein.
- "it is perhaps the misfortune of my life that i am interested in far too much but not decisively in any one thing; all my interests are not subordinated in one but stand on an equal footing.” søren kierkegaard.
- "sometimes, i feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there’s no room for the present at all." evelyn waugh.
- "there are moments when one has to choose between living one’s own life, fully, entirely, completely-or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands.” oscar wilde.
- "the most exhausting thing in life, i have discovered, is being insincere. that is why so much of social life is exhausting; one is wearing a mask. i have shed my mask.” anne morrow lindbergh.
- "people think dreams aren’t real just because they aren’t made of matter, of particles. dreams are real. but they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes.” neil gaiman.
- "i feel my heart ache, but i’ve forgotten what that feeling means." chuck palahniuk, choke.
- "for you in my respect are all the world: then how can it be said I am alone, when all the world is here to look on me?" william shakespeare, a midsummer night's dream.
- "in high school i was a nerd and very academic. on the weekends, instead of going out and partying, i’d close myself in my room and read Shakespeare. i hid from boys. i didn’t know what a boyfriend was, although i think i wanted one." troian bellisario.
- "any irrational fears?""no, i’m quite a rationalist. i’m not superstitious, i think life is too full of natural wonders and logical complexities to worry about illogical things." benedict cumberbatch.
- "pale, awkward and very very small. form an orderly queue, gents." anna kendrick.
- "i still love the people i've loved, even if i cross the street to avoid them." uma thurman.
- “she’s capable of being both slightly plain and impossibly beautiful.”
- "you don't think of yourself as smart, you've always had your mind, it is what it is." jessica pearson. suits.
- "happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing i know.” ernest hemingway.
- "i decided, very early on, just to accept life unconditionally. i never expected it to do anything special for me, yet i seemed to accomplish far more than i had ever hoped. most of the time it just happened to me without my ever seeking it." audrey hepburn.
- "men are taught to apologize for their weaknesses, women for their strengths." lois wise.
- "toxic masculinity hurts men, but there’s a big difference between women dealing with the constant threat of being raped, beaten, and killed by the men in their lives, and men not being able to cry." robert jensen.
- "having a low opinion of yourself is not modesty. it’s self-destruction." bobby simmer.
- "if i didn’t think, i’d be much happier." sylvia plath.
- "not everyone you lose is a loss."
- "sometimes when you meet someone, there’s a click. i don’t believe in love at first sight but i believe in that click." ann aguirre, blue diablo.
- "the answer is dreams. dreaming on and on. entering the world of dreams and never coming out. living in dreams for the rest of time." haruki murakami.
- "my blood is alive with many voices telling me i am made of longing." rainer maria rilke.
- "there is something at work in my soul, which i do not understand." mary shelley, frankenstein.
- "every word has consequences. every silence, too." jean-paul sartre.
- "it’s always surprising to me how many young women think they have to be perfect. i rarely meet a young man who doesn’t think he already is." hillary clinton.
- "find a beautiful piece of art. if you fall in love with van gogh or matisse or john oliver killens, or if you fall love with the music of coltrane, the music of aretha franklin, or the music of chopin - find some beautiful art and admire it, and realize that that was created by human beings just like you, no more human, no less." maya angelou.
- "the oddest things hurt me. they get stuck in my head and replay over and over."
- "i’m ashamed of myself because i know i should be better but i have no idea how to get there."
- "i get drunk on dreams and choke on real life."
- "and sometimes i have kept my feelings to myself, because i could find no language to describe them in." jane austen, sense & sensibility.
- "love isn’t soft, like those poets say. love has teeth which bite and the wounds never close." stephen king.
- "introverts don’t get lonely if they don’t socialize with a lot of people, but we do get lonely if we don’t have intimate interactions on a regular basis."
- "please don’t expect me to always be good and kind and loving. there are times when i will be cold and thoughtless and hard to understand." sylvia plath.
- "i like people who dream or talk to themselves interminably; i like them, for they are double. they are here and elsewhere." albert camus.
- "depression is like a bruise that never goes away. a bruise in your mind. you just got to be careful not to touch it where it hurts. it`s always there, though." jeffrey eugenides.
- "i still catch myself feeling sad about things that don’t matter anymore." kurt vonnegut.
- "there was another life that i might have had, but i am having this one." kazoo ishiguro.
- "politeness has become so rare that people mistake it for flirtation."
- "love is brief: forgetting lasts so long." pablo neruda.
- "the problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts while the stupid ones are full of confidence." charles bukowski.
- "the hardest period in life is one’s twenties. it’s a shame because you’re your most gorgeous, and you’re physically in peak condition. but it’s actually when you’re most insecure and full of self-doubt. when you don’t know what’s going to happen, it’s frightening." helen mirren
- "i stay up just late enough until i am just exhausted enough that i can fall into my bed and sink into immediate slumber. because i can’t stand lying in a bed in a dark room alone with just my thoughts for so many hours and hours."
- "the trick, kiddo,” his mom replies slowly. “is finding someone who complements you instead of completes you. you need to be complete on your own."
- "don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your own soul according to the fashion. rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly." franz kafka.
- "sometimes i wanted to peel off all my skin and find a different me underneath." francesca lia block, wasteland.
- "there's a difference between loving the idea of someone and actually loving who they really are." white collar.
- "we are very good at preparing to live, but not very good at living. we know how to sacrifice ten years for a diploma, and we are willing to work very hard to get a job, a car, a house, and so on. but we have difficulty remembering that we are alive in the present moment, the only moment there is for us to be alive." thich nhat hanh
- "my soul is impatient with itself, as with a bothersome child; its restlessness keeps growing and is forever the same. everything interests me, but nothing holds me." fernando pessoa. the book of disquiet.
- "life has become immeasurably better since i have been forced to stop taking it seriously." hunter s. thompson.
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