- "we are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars" - oscar wilde
- "That's the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up." - Walt Disney
- "People who say that yesterday was better than today are ultimately devaluing their own existence"
- "Because even if it breaks your heart to be just friends, if you really care about someone, you’ll take the hit." - Scrubs
- "I've found that falling doesn't always leave you fallen for." - andrew mcmahon
- “The real world, whether we like it or not, is right here, right now. All of this, every day, is important. Everybody matters. Everything we do has an effect on other, directly or indirectly, whether we realize it or not.” - Megan Mcaffery, Second Helpings
- “With each new day it becomes more apparent to me that everything and everyone in this world is connected in some beautiful and inexplicable way, and the more I accept that, the more my world seems to come together.” - Andrew McMahon
- "Today I felt like a part of something awesome, the human race. I know it can be ugly; it really is in so many ways. But today there was nothing ugly to see, just people trying to be better. And maybe that’s the key. Not resolutions and forgotten promises, but instead a commitment to do this year a little better than the last. I’m feeling good about this one. I really am." - andrew mcmahon
- "If you're willing to change the world, let love be your energy" - Robbie Williams
- "How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard"
- "he kissed her. a kiss like apple pie a la mode with the vanilla creaminess melting the pie heat. a kiss about chocolate, when you haven't eaten chocolate in a year. a kiss about palm trees speeding by, trailing pink clouds when you drive down the Strip sizzling with champagne. a kiss about spotlights fanning the ski and the swollen sea spilling like tears all over your legs" - francesca lia block
- "as long as people are going to call you a lunatic anyway, why not get the benefit of it? it liberates you from convention" - wicked
- "everybody stands in front of the mirror and wishes they were different" - stoner&spaz
- "be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle" - plato
- "you must be the change you wish to see in the world " - gandhi
- "have you ever been in love" horrible isn't it? it makes you so vulnerable. it opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. you build up all these defenses, you build up a whole suit of armor, so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life...you give them a piece of you. they didn't ask for it. they did something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore. love takes hostages. it gets inside you. it eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so simple a phrase like "maybe we should just be friends" turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. not just in the imagination. not just in the mind. it's a soul-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. i hate love" - neil gaiman
- "let us toast to animal pleasures, to escapism, to rain on the roof and instant coffee, to unemployment insurance and library cards, to absinthe and good-hearted landlords, to music and warm bodies and contraceptives, and to the 'good life', whatever it is and wherever it happens to be"
- "to live is the rarest thing in the world. most people exist, that is all" - oscar wilde
- "When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it."
- "Love doesn’t make things nice - it ruins everything. It breaks your heart. It makes a mess. We aren't here to make things perfect. We are here to ruin ourselves and to break our hearts and love the wrong people." - moonstruck (movie)
- "When adults say, 'teenagers think they are invincible' with that sly, stupid smile on their faces, they don't know how right they are. We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken. We think that we are invincible because we are. We cannot be born, and we cannot die. Like all energy, we can only change shapes and sizes and manifestations. They forget that when they get old. They get scared of losing and failing. But that part of us great than the sum of our parts cannot begin and cannot end, and so it cannot fail. Thomas edison's last words were 'it's very beautiful over there.' I don't know where there is, but I believe it's somewhere, and I hope it's beautiful." Looking For Alaska
- "He was gone, and I did not have time to tell him what I had just now realized: that I forgave him, and that she forgave us, and that we had to forgive to survive in the labyrinth. There were so many of us who would have to live with things done and things left undone that day. Things that did not go right, things that seemed okay at the time because we could not see the future. If only we could see the endless string of consequences that result from our smallest actions. But we can’t know better until knowing better is useless. And as I walked back to give Takumi’s note to the Colonel, I saw that I would never know. I would never know her well enough to know her thoughts in those last minutes, would never know if she left us on purpose. But the not-knowing would not keep me from caring, and I would always love Alaska Young, my crooked neighbor, with all my crooked heart." Looking For Alaska
- "Just because today is a terrible day, doesn't mean tomorrow might not be the best day of your entire life. You just have to wake up and get there."
- "be kinder than necessary, for everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle."
- "today you are you, that is truer than true. there is no one alive who is youer than you." - dr. seuss
- "So it's not gonna be easy. It's gonna be really hard. We're gonna have to work at this every day, but I want to do that because I want you. I want all of you, for ever, you and me, every day." - The Notebook
- "If you're a bird, I'm a bird" - The Notebook
- "Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius, & it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring. & When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I'm already better than them." - Marilyn Monroe
- "They say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself" Andy Warhol
- "if for example, you come over at four in the afternoon I shall begin to be happy by three." - Antoine de Saint Exupéry, The Little Prince
- “Liberals got women the right to vote. Liberals got African-Americans the right to vote. Liberals created Social Security and lifted millions of elderly people out of poverty. Liberals ended segregation. Liberals passed the Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act. Liberals created Medicare. Liberals passed the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act. What did Conservatives do? They opposed them on every one of those things every one. So when you try to hurl that label at my feet, 'Liberal,' as if it were something to be ashamed of, something dirty, something to run away from, it won't work, Senator, because I will pick up that label and I will wear it as a badge of honor.” -The West Wing
- "Anger, intelligence, and wit are ultimately more seductive than zero percent body fat." - Maria Raha
- "I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music." - George Eliot
- "Being noticed can be a burden. Jesus got himself crucified because he got himself noticed. So I disappear a lot." - Bob Dylan
- “Look for the ridiculous in everything and you will find it.” - Jules Renard
- "The only thing necessary for the persistence of evil is for enough good people to do nothing about it." - attributed to Edmund Burke
- "love until it hurts and then love more" - mother theresa
- "I have this theory that if one person can go out of their way to show compassion, then it will start a chain reaction of the same."- Rachel Joy Scott
- "A dead end is just another place to turn around."
- "You were just a boy on a bed in a room, like a kaleidoscope is a tube full of bits of broken glass. But the way I saw you was pieces refracting the light, shifting into an infinite universe of flowers and rainbows and insects and planets, magical dividing cells, pictures no one else knew." - Francesca Lia Block; Wasteland
- "life, i really believe, is about falling in love. with ideas, with stories, with experiences, mistakes, adventures, poetry, imaginations, old books, new books, movies, music, and, of course, people. everything that is worthwhile in this world is worth falling in love with, and i can't imagine a better way to live one's life than to be always head over heels."
- "Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company." - Mark Twain
- "Our aim is to make the world more beautiful than it was when we came into it. It can be done. You can do it....Love yourself, and make your instrument sing about it." - Kurt Vonnegut
- "everything was beautiful and nothing hurt" - kurt vonnegut
- "you don't have a soul. you are a soul. you have a body." - c.s. lewis
- "the young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. they have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another." - quentin crisp
- "Without music, life would be a mistake." - F. Nietzsche
- "It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye." - Antoine de Saint Exupéry, Le Petit Prince (translated)
- "Do you know what you are? You are a marvel. You are unique. In all the world there is no other child exactly like you. In the millions of years that have passed, there has never been a child like you... You have the capacity for anything." - Pablo Casals
- "most people are other people. their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation." - oscar wilde
- "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
- "I have been astonished that Men could die Martyrs for religion - I have shudder'd at it - I shudder no more - I could be martyr'd for my Religion - Love is my religion - I could die for that - I could die for you. My Creed is Love and you are its only tenet - You have ravish'd me away by a Power I cannot resist: and yet I could resist till I saw you; and even since I have seen you I have endeavoured often "to reason against the reasons of my Love." I can do that no more - the pain would be too great - My Love is selfish - I cannot breathe without you." - John Keats
- "Perhaps it is true that we do not really exist until there is someone there to see us existing, we cannot properly speak until there is someone there who can understand what we are saying, in essence, we are not wholly alive until we are loved." (Essays in Love, Alain de Button)
- "Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round heads in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules and they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify them, 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 some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do." - Jack Kerouac
- "That's the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up." - Walt Disney
- "Things are fragile, but we're all being carried and I think we're all on our path in that sense. As fragile as things are, we're still getting there." - Andrew McMahon
- "You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the guy who'll decide where to go." - Dr.Seuss
- "love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired"
- "love doesn't make the world go round, love it what makes the ride worthwhile"
- "love is friendship set to music"
- “Would I rather be feared or loved? Um, easy, Both. I want people to be afraid of how much they love me.” - Michael Scott
- "I believe that everything happens for a reason.People change so that you can learn to let go.things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they are right. you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together" - marilyn monroe
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