- "Hearts will never be practical until they are made unbreakable." - The Wizard, The Wizard of Oz
- "Deep down, a cynic is a sentimental fool who's been burned."
- "I'm looking for a dare-to-be-great situation" - Lloyd Dobler, Say Anything
- "Sexiness wears thin after a while and beauty fades, but to be married to a man who makes you laugh every day, ah, now that's a real treat" - Joanne Woodward
- "The worst feeling isn't being lonely. It's being forgotten by the person that you cannot forget."
- "I honestly couldn't care less if you like the same bands or you've read the same books. Tell me one original thing, tell me one true, real thing that brings me to my fucking knees that I've never heard before and I'm yours."
- "When I was young, my ambition was to be one of the people who made a difference in this world. My hope still is to leave the world a little bit better for my having been here. It's a wonderful life and I love it." - Jim Henson
- "Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is nonexistent. And don't bother concealing your thievery — celebrate it if you feel like it. In any case, always remember what Jean-Luc Godard said: "It's not where you take things from — it's where you take them to." — Jim Jarmusch
- "I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't." - F. Scott Fitzgerald
- "The Gods envy us. They envy us because we’re mortal, because any moment might be our last. Everything is more beautiful because we’re doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again." - Achilles/Troy
- "We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will." - Chuck Palahniuk
- "You'll learn from them - if you want to. Just as someday, if you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It's a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn't education. It's history. It's poetry" - Catcher in the Rye
- "For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone." - Audrey Hepburn
- "Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let the pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness. Take pride that even though the rest of the world may disagree, you still believe it to be a beautiful place."
- "A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely." - Roald Dahl
- "we will all live forever, no matter how dead we may sometimes seem to be, I am not overjoyed. Still--if I am going to spend eternity visiting this moment and that, I'm grateful that so many of those moments are nice." - Kurt Vonnegut
- "We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking up at the stars" - Oscar Wilde
- "I will not die an unlived life. I will not live in fear of falling or catching fire. I choose to inhabit my days, to allow my living to open me, to make me less afraid, more accessible, to loosen my heart until it becomes a wing, a torch, a promise. I choose to risk my significance; to live so that which comes to me as seed goes to the next as blossom and that which come to me as blossom, goes on as fruit." - Dawna Markova
- "I must learn to love the fool in me--the one who feels too much, talks too much, takes too many chances, wins sometimes and loses often, lacks self-control, loves and hates, hurts and gets hurt, promises and breaks promises, laughs and cries. It alone protects me against that utterly self-controlled, masterful tyrant whom I also harbor and who would rob me of human aliveness, humility, and dignity but for my fool." - Theodore Rubin
- "He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how." - Nietzsche
- "The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awww!” - Jack Kerouac
- "I want to weave you into me. Stick your thorns in and grow. Bleed sap and feel this shining light. Grow strange leaves. Bear this fruit. Share this soil. Bury ourselves. Reach for the sun. Strip this bark. Carve a name and a heart into me. Please."
- "according to greek mythology, humans were originally created with 4 arms, 4 legs and a head with two faces. fearing their power, zeus split them into two separate parts, condemning them to spend their lives in search of their other halves."
- "i like to dream but i also like to be realistic; sometimes when a thing is so nice and sweet, i just crush it. i don't mean to, but i don't want to be let down." - selena gomez
- "It's always wrong to hate, but it is never wrong to love." - Lady Gaga
- "Hello, babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. At the outside, babies, you've got about a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies — God damn it, you've got to be kind." - Kurt Vonnegut, "God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater"
- "I laughed and said, Life is easy. What I meant was, Life is easy with you here, and when you leave, it will be hard again." - Miranda July (from the short story Ten True Things)
- “Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.” - Dr. Seuss
- "Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared." — Hermann Hesse.
- "i, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. i can choose which it shall be. yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. i have just one day, today, and i'm going to be happy in it." - groucho marx
- "we don't read and write poetry because it's cute. we read and write poetry because we are members of the human race... and the human race is filled with passion. and medicine, law, business, engineering -- these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. but poetry, beauty, romance, love -- these are what we stay alive for." - Dead Poet's Society
- “All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible.” - T.E. Lawrence.
- "At this moment there are 6,470,818,671 people in the world. Some are running scared. Some are coming home. Some tell lies to make it through the day. Others are just not facing the truth. Some are evil men, at war with good. And some are good, struggling with evil. Six billion people in the world. Six billion souls. And sometimes all you need is ONE." - One Tree Hill.
- "I thought after I was like 24 or 25, looking back on myself at 21, I thought that that would be the most drastic change I would ever go through... and then, looking back on 25 from 28, it was even worse. So I've kind of given up this whole idea of "I know what I'm talking about" or "I know who I am and I know how I'm gonna be in two years" because it never really stops changing. Things keep happening and you look back, even a week or two, and it's different from the way you thought it was gonna be." Jesse Lacey.
- "I like people who have a sense of individuality. I love expression and anything awkward and imperfect, because that's natural and that's real" - Marc Jacobs
- And will you succeed? Yes! You will, indeed! (98 and 3 / 4 percent guaranteed.) KID, YOU'LL MOVE MOUNTAINS! So... be your name Buxbaum or Bixby or Bray or Mordecai Ali Van Allen O'Shea, you're off to Great Places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting. So...get on your way!" - Dr Seuss
- "You know what? Fuck beauty contests. Life is one fucking beauty contest after another. School, then college, then work... Fuck that. And fuck the Air Force Academy. If I want to fly, I'll find a way to fly. You do what you love, and fuck the rest." - Little Miss Sunshine
- "The most powerful aspect of music is that it can open your eyes to the frustration of everything and give you the adrenaline and faith to go on with the ideal that you can make it better if you do your
thing." - Julian Casablancas (the Strokes)
- "Whenever I get gloomy with the state of the world, I think about the arrivals gate at Heathrow Airport. General opinion's starting to make out that we live in a world of hatred and greed, but I don't see that. It seems to me that love is everywhere. Often it's not particularly dignified or newsworthy, but it's always there - fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, boyfriends, girlfriends, old friends. When the planes hit the Twin Towers, as far as I know none of the phone calls from the people on board were messages of hate or revenge - they were all messages of love.If you look for it, I've got a sneaky feeling you'll find that love actually is all around." - Love Actually
- "I always tell the girls never take it seriously. If you never take it seriosuly, you never get hurt, and if you never get hurt, you always have fun. And if you ever get lonely, just go to the record store and visit your friends." - Almost Famous
- "But I know about art and love, if only because I long for it with every fiber of my being." - Moulin Rouge
- "if a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live" - MLK Jr.
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