- "You dont love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not"
- "Maybe who we are isn't so much about what we do, but rather what we're capable of when we least expect it."
- "There's always going to be bad stuff out there. But here's the amazing thing - light trumps darkness, every time. You stick a candle into the dark, but you can't stick the dark into the light."
- "It takes two people to make a lie work: the person who tells it, and the one who believes it."
- "You don't need water to feel like you're drowning, do you?"
- "Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them."
- "Bad is not an absolute, but a relative term. Ask the robber who used the cash he stole to feed his infant; the rapist who was sexually abused as a child; the kidnapper who truly believed he was saving a life. And just because you break the law doesn't mean you have intentionally crossed the line into evil. Sometimes the line creeps up on you, and before you know it, you're standing on the other side."
- "You can't edit a blank page"
- "Nobody wants to admit to this, but bad things will keep on happening. Maybe that's beause it's all a chain, and a long time ago someone did the first bad thing, and that led someone else to do another bad thing, and so on. You know, like that game where you whisper a sentence into someone's ear, and that person whispers it to someone else, and it all comes out wrong in the end. But then again, maybe bad things happen because it's the only way we can keep remembering what good is supposed to look like."
- "Heroes didn't leap tall buildings or stop bullets with an outstretched hand; they didn't wear boots and capes. They bled, and they bruised, and their superpowers were as simple as listening, or loving. Heroes were ordinary people who knew that even if their own lives were impossibly knotted, they could untangle someone else's. And maybe that one act could lead someone to rescue you right back."
- " Shooting stars are not stars at all. They're just rocks that enter the atmosphere and catch fire under friction. What we wish on when we see one is only a trail of debris."
- "Nostalgia literally means 'the pain from an old wound.' It's a twinge in your heart far more powerful than memory alone. This device isn't a spaceship. It's a time machine. Goes backward, forward, takes us to a place where we ache to go again. It's not called 'the wheel' — it's called 'the carousel.' Lets us travel the way a child travels, 'round and around and back home again, to a place where we know we are loved." - Don Draper (Fictional character)
- "Malaria is spread by mosquitoes. I brought some. Here I'll let them roam around. There is no reason only poor people should be infected. There is more money put into baldness drugs than into malaria. Now, baldness is a terrible thing and rich men are afflicted. That is why that priority has been set." - Bill Gates
- “Like most of the others, I was a seeker, a mover, a malcontent and at times, a stupid hell-raiser. I was never idle long enough to do much thinking but I felt somehow that my instincts were right. I shared a vagrant optimism that some of us were making real progress, that we had taken an honest road and that the best of us would inevitably make it over the top. At the same time, I shared a dark suspicion that the life we were leading was a lost cause, that we were all actors, kidding ourselves along on a senseless odyssey. It was the tension between these two poles- a restless idealism on one hand and a sense of impending doom on the other- that kept me going.” - Hunter S. Thompson
- "Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind." -Dr Seuss
- "Strangers at one point, good friends in time. Nobody knows how our world works. It's a matter of time when you truly appreciate a person. A matter of chance: When the right people are at the right place at the right time. Nobody understands how the universe conspires for us to meet the people we'll love. But then, it just happens. You smile at each other, and then the story begins."
- "Remember... Whoever comes are the right people. Whatever happens is the only thing that could have. Whenever it starts is the right time. When it's over, it's over."
- "Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett
- "Every moment lived, every moment gone, but every moment treasured."
- "20,000 children have died of hunger today and you don't give a shit! In fact you are more concerned with the fact I used shit than that 20,000 children died of hunger" - Tony Campolo
- "There’s a little truth behind every ‘just kidding’, a little curiosity behind every ‘just wondering’, a little knowledge behind every ‘I don’t know’, a little emotion behind every ‘I don’t care’, and a little kick of lie behind the distant eyes of someone saying ‘I don’t love you.’"
- "Science. It makes everything lose its magic."
- "There's a drive inside me that won't allow me to do certain things that are easy."
- "The unreal is more powerful than the real, because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Because it's only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles, wood rots. People, well they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on." - Chuck Palahniuk
- "You were only given this life because you are strong enough to live it. Don't give up."
- "The Lord will fight for you; you need only to be still"
- "Just when you think it can’t get any worse, it can. And just when you think it can’t get any better, it can." - Nicholas Sparks
- "The best way is not to fight it, just go. Don’t be trying all the time to fix things. What you run from only stays with you longer. When you fight something, you only make it stronger." - Chuck Palahniuk
- "But that’s you. I’m horrified just thinking about you. Because you’re so full of shit. You’re so full of everything that nobody in the damn world wants to be full of, if that even makes any sense. Well, you don’t make any sense anyway. So maybe this is something you actually understand, like the first thing I’ve said that actually makes sense to you doesn’t make sense to the world’s population. Because that’s how special you are. Nobody in the world has that much capability, if that’s what you’d like to call it... douchebag."
- "What no wife of a writer can ever understand is that a writer is working when he's staring out of the window." - Burton Rascoe
- "Here’s to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes… the ones who see things differently — they’re not fond of rules… You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can’t do is ignore them because they change things… they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do."
feb 6 2009 ∞
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