- "I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there." -The Perks of Being a Wallflower
- “But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?” -Mark Twain
- “Just because someone doesn’t love you the way you want them to, doesn’t mean they don’t love you with everything they have.” -Unknown
- “One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.” -Mother Teresa
- "If you need something from somebody always give that person a way to hand it to you." -The Secret Life of Bees
- "You can’t get strength from someone else. You need to find it within yourself." -mama
- "What we do when we educate kids to be happy and self-fulfilled is to absolutely ruin them. Parents should say to their kids, "What you want out of life is not happiness but to be part of a worthy adventure. You want to have something worth dying for." -Stanley Hauerwas
- "You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.” -Buddha
- "You have to find a mother inside yourself. We all do. Even if we already have a mother, we still have to find this part of ourselves inside." -The Secret Life of Bees
- "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
- "Always remember there was nothing worth sharing like the love that let us share our name." -The Avett Brothers
- "It doesn’t happen all at once,” said the Skin Horse. “You become. It takes a long time. That’s why it doesn’t happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in your joints and very shabby. But these things don’t matter at all, because once you are Real you can’t be ugly, except to people who don’t understand." -The Velveteen Rabbit
- "But snow is nothing. It has no melody or form, it is as though the tears of all the lost souls rose to heaven and were finally heard and blessed with substance and the power of flight and given their choice chose then to return to earth, to lay their great pale cheek against the burning cheek of earth and say, There, there, child." -Philip Levine
- "Everything we do is a choice. Oatmeal or cereal. Highway or side streets. Kiss her or keep her. We make choices and we live with the consequences. If someone gets hurt along the way we ask for forgiveness. It’s the best anyone can do." -Pushing Daisies
- "Let's all laugh so that we don't cry." -Jack Johnson
- "I think that if I ever have kids, and they are upset, I won't tell them that people are starving in China or anything like that because it wouldn't change the fact that they were upset. And even if somebody else has it much worse, that doesn't really change the fact that you have what you have." -The Perks of Being a Wallflower
- "The way those bees flew, not even looking for a flower, just flying for the feel of the wind, split my heart down its seam." -The Secret Life of Bees
- "Ask most people what they want out of life, and the answer is simple: to be happy. Maybe it’s this expectation though, the wanting to be happy, that just keeps us from ever getting there. Maybe the more we try and will ourselves to states of bliss, the more confused we get, to the point where we don’t recognize ourselves. Instead, we just keep smiling, trying like hell to be the happy people we wish we were. Until eventually, it hits us: it’s been there all along. Not in our dreams or hopes, but in the known. The comfortable, the familiar." -Grey's Anatomy
- "The truth is that there are a lot of people like you, us, with strange hobbies or talents or gifts. We try to hide it because we're afraid that it makes us seem weird or it will turn people off, but that's a mistake. What makes me unique has brought every person I love into my life." -Pushing Daisies
- "Stories have to be told or they die, and when they die, we can't remember who we are or why we're here." -The Secret Life of Bees
- "We accept the love we think we deserve." -The Perks of Being a Wallflower
- "The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return." -Moulin Rouge
- "Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid." -Albert Einstein
- "Time has its revenges, but revenge seems so often sour. Wouldn’t we all do better not trying to understand, accepting the fact that no human being will ever understand another, not a wife with a husband, nor a parent a child? Perhaps that’s why men have invented God – a being capable of understanding." -Graham Greene
- "Nobody belongs to us, except in memory." -John Updike
- "We know ourselves not just by what we are, but by what we are not." -Anonymous.
- "I am not worried, Harry," said Dumbledore, his voice a little stronger despite the freezing water. "I am with you." -Dumbledore
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