• __"Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.__" -James 1:2-4
• "Live in the random but look for the rhyme." -Andi & Al
• " Do you love me because I am beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me?" - Cinderella
• "People weren't put here to aimlessly roam the earth until they die. Everyone has a purpose" -Christy Huber.
• "You pass a bunch of people each day- people in cars, in the grocery store, waiting in line for their coffee at an expresso stand. You pass apartments, buildings and streets, the comings and going, elevators crawling up and down and each person has their own story going on right then, with its cast of characters; they've got their own frustrations and their happiness and the things they are looking forward to and dreading and sometimes you wonder if you've ever crossed paths before without knowing it, or will one day cross their path again. But sometimes, too, you have this little feeling of knowing, this fuzzy, gnawing sense that someone will be a major something in your life. You just know that theirs will be a life you will enter and become part of. It's a sense of significance." - The Nature of Jade
• "Laughter: an interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features and accompanied by inarticulate noises. It is infectious and though intermitten; incurable."
• __"You can't always be looking backwards or something will hit you from the front.__"
• "I know if I move ahead time is on my side" -Colbie Caillat.
• "If God was small enough for us to understand he wouldn't be big enough for us to worship."
• "People are precious, and sometimes we forget that. They're precious because God made them, and they need friends, they need love. Jesus never teased or hurt anyone, but He loved everybody, even the little and dumb and fat and ugly and weird, and, well, if we all lived like that, then maybe terrible things..wouldn't happen." -Hangman's Curse Frank Peretti.
• "If I didn't take risks...I'd end up being one of those people...whose fear of death becomes fear of life." -Nature of Jade.
• "I also asked for a hotchocolate with whipped cream because whipped cream can remind you why it's so good to be alive." -The Fortunes of Indigo Sky.
• "Never leave your partner, especially in a fire." -fireproof
• "Being happy doesn't mean everything is perfect. It means you've decided to look beyond the imperfections."
• "Not knowing something doesn't mean you're stupid. All it means is that there's still room left to wonder." - So B. It
• "If truth were a crayon and it was up to me to put a wrapper around it and name its color, i know just what I would call it-dinosaur skin." - So B. It
• "Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. That is just being "in love" which any of us can convince ourselves we are. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident." -St. Augustine
• "I'm in love with you." "How do you know that?" "I don't know how to explain it to you." "Try." "If I'm away from you for more than an hour, I can't stop thinking about you. I carry you in my spirit. I pray for you more than I pray for myself. And see? And that... that... That smile. When you smile like that, my world... It's all right. I'm in love with you." -Diary of a Mad Black Woman
• "Such a tough enchalada, filled up with nada." -Jack Johnson
• "You can always find love, but you only are 'in love' once." -Max Vidal (Sr.)
• "Courage is fear that has said its prayers." -Dorothy Bernard
• "Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don't really matter." - Francis Chan Crazy Love.
• "God's last name is not "Dammit." ~Author Unknown (I appreciate this a lot.)
• "Love is many things. It's varied. One thing it is not and can never be is unsure." -Madea's Family reunion.
• "You can want all your life to help somebody but if they don't wanna get help it aint gonna happen." -Madea.
• "It aint where you come from. It's where you're going." -Madea.
• "All I can do is be me. Whoever that is." -Bob Dylan.
• "Saying goodbye for the next three hours" - Rascal Flatts.
• "I wanna be running when the sand runs out." -Rascal Flatts.
• "We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public."
• "Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car." — Garrison Keillor
• "To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all." — Oscar Wilde
• "Before I die, I want to live.*
• "I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I ended up where I needed to be." -Douglas Adams.
• "He who angers you conquers you.” -Elizabeth Kenny.
• “Courage is being scared to death but saddling up anyway.”- John Wayne
• “Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you’ll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.”- Jacob M. Braude
• "Whoever you are, you will die. To know and understand that means you are alive"
• "If what you’re doing feels perfectly safe, there is probably a better course of action."
• "no matter how thin you slice it, there are always two sides."
• " we are responsible for what we do, no matter how we feel."
• "You know, the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing" -Teddy Roosevelt
• "Character isn’t something you were born with and can’t change, like your fingerprints. It’s something you weren’t born with and must take responsibility for forming." – Jim Rohn
• "You just walked by me like nothing ever happened. When you said you would rescue me if I was ever falling. Well baby theres no way that you could have forgotten all the memories I thought we shared" -Justin Nozuka.
• “They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.”
• "The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources." -Albert Einstein.
• "True Love does not come by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly"
• "Don't let the imaginary person in your head keep you from the real one in front of you."
• "When I was five years old my mom always told me that happiness is the key to life. When i went to school they asked me what I wanted to be when I grow up. I wrote down 'happy.' They told me I didn't understand the assignment. I told them they didn't understand life."
• "Do what you love. fortune will follow."
• "Speak the truth even if your voice shakes."
• "And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years." -Abraham lincoln.
• "I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.” -E.B. White.
• “You eventually learn that true priorities are like arms; if you think you have more than a couple, you’re either lying or crazy.” -Merlin Mann
• “Relationships are like glass. Sometimes it’s better to leave them broken than try to hurt yourself putting it back together.”
• “I tried so hard after they left to make my heart hard. And now you have undone all my hard work.” -I Wrote This For You.
• "Heroes aren’t people who are in danger. Heroes are people who deliberately put themselves in danger to help other people."
• "Not all children are cute. Some of them are rather unpleasant looking."
• “And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.” – Roald Dahl.
• "Life is too short for long pity parties. Get busy living, or get busy dying."
• "Give time time."
• "If we all threw our problems in a pile and saw everyone else's, we'd grab ours back"
• "Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you anywhere." -Albert Einstein.
• "You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself, any direction you choose." -Dr. Seuss.
• "Don’t worry about what people think, they don’t do it very often."
• "I’m afraid sometimes you’ll play lonely games too, games you can’t win because you’ll play against you." - Dr. Seuss.
• "Out of clutter, find simplicity. From discord, find harmony. In the middle of difficulty, lies opportunity.' - Albert Einstein.
• "Nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful people with talent."
• "Being loved deeply by someone gives you strength while loving someone deeply gives you courage." -Lao Tzu.
• "you discover who you are by acting naturally."
• “I miss you when something really good happens, because you are the one I want to share it with. I miss you when something is troubling me, because you are the one who understands me so well. I miss you when I laugh and cry because I know that you are the one that makes my laughter grow and my tears disappear. I miss you all the time, but I miss you most when I lay awake at night and think of all the wonderful times we spent with eachother; for those were some of the best times of my life.”
• “It is one of life’s bitterest truths that bedtime so often arrives just when things are really getting interesting.” -Lemony Snicket
• "You can look at a picture for a week and never think of it again, you can look at a picture for a second and think of it your whole life."
• "The best things in life aren't things."
• "The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time."
• "I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better." -Plutarch
• "Ghosts are real, and monsters are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win." -Stephen King
• "May the bridges i burn light the way."
• "You can do anything, but not everything." -David Allen.
• "Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
• "Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there." -Will Rogers
• "Knock on the sky and listen to the sound."
• "It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog." -Mark Twain
• "The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart" -Helen Keller
• "The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands but seeing with new eyes." -Marcel Proust
• "If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders." -Abigail Van Buren
• "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." -Ambrose Redmoon
• "It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare." -Mark Twain
• "Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it." -Bill Cosby
• "It is easy enough to be friendly to one’s friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business." - Mohandas K. Gandhi
• "The most wasted of all days is one without laughter." - E E. Cummings
• "Enjoy your life without comparing it to others." - Condobcet
• "A man travels the world over in search of what he needs, and returns home to find it." -George Moore
• "It is better to fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than to succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail." -Peter Marshall
• "Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much." -Oscar Wilde
• "Truth is such a rare thing, it is delightful to tell it." -Emily Dickinson
• "There are two kinds of secrets: those we keep from others and the ones we hide from ourselves." -Frank
• "People are like stained - glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within." -Elizabeth Kubler Ros
• "I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders." – Jewish Proverb
• "If you aren’t in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?"
• "Today is a new day." -Chicken Little.
• "Here's all you have to know about men and women: Women are crazy, and men are stupid. And the main reason that women are crazy is that men are stupid." -George Carlin.
• "are you going to the grave with unlived lives in your veins?" - The Good Girl
• "The ones who love us least are the ones we'll die to please..." -The Replacements
• "One day can make your life, one day can ruin your life. All life is, is four or five big days that change everything" -riding in cars with boys
• "Love should never be a secret. If you keep something as complicated as love stored up inside, it could make you sick." -Spiderman 2
• "Knowing is the easy part; saying it out loud is the hard part." - Horse Whisperer
• "On the other hand, you have different fingers"
• "Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers." — Charles W. Eliot
• "The rest is still unwritten." -Natasha Bedingfield.
• "Love won't be tampered with, love won't go away. Push it to one side and it creeps to the other." -Louise Erdrich
• "If you met my family you would understand."
• "The people who know the least about you always have the most to say."
• "when something bad happens you have three choices. You can either let it define you. Let it destroy you. Or you can let it strengthen you."
• "Your face is fine, but you'll have to put a bag over that personality."
• "Courage does not always roar. sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying 'i will try again tomorrow.'"
• "Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had."
• "I'm not weird. I'm limited addition."
• "Crying doesn't indicate that you are weak. Since birth, it has always been a sign that you are alive."
• "I looked hot today. You missed out."
• "Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet." -Bob Marley.
• "Nothing is impossible. The word itself says 'i'm possible'" - Audrey Hepburn
• "Guys give love to get sex. Girls give sex to get love."
• "I don't wanna just make love, I wanna make love last." -Kelly clarkson.
• "I see through the me I used to be" -crossfade.
• "when everything falls apart your arms hold me together."
• "My eyes are my favorite part of me- not for how they look, but for how they see."
• "When your heart speaks to you, take good notes."
• "Even those who limp go not backward." - Kahlil gibran
• "Whether we were right for each other or not, he was the first person to make me almost believe in love. " - Beautiful.
• "'w'hat do you think?' 'I don't know.' 'well none of us know. What do you THINK?'" -odyssey.
• "shes my other half, my partner in crime. A sidekick to dirty deeds. we're together all the time. Wherever she is I'm not far behind. And if she's in danger, my life too is on the line. "
• "Rich, poor, American, Middle Eastern- no one is immune to love. It wraps around each of us, changing who we are, shaping us. The lack of it warps us, destroys us, turns us to evil." -Caleb and Kate.
• "Because if God is with us, love is with us. Our love plus his love means forever." -Caleb and Kate.
• “Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.” — Margaret Lee Runbeck
• “Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.” — William Makepeace Thackeray
• “A person will be called to account on Judgement Day for every permissible thing he might have enjoyed but did not.” — Talmud
• “Well,” said Pooh, “what I like best,” and then he had to stop and think. Because although eating honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn’t know what it was called. — A.A. Milne
• “You can’t buy happiness, but you can buy ice cream. And that’s kind of the same thing.” – Unknown
• "Some people think it's holding that makes one strong—sometimes it's letting go." -Unknown
• "To forgive is to set a prisoner free and realize that prisoner was you." -Lewis B. Smedes
• "You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one."
• "Holding onto anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one that gets burned." - Buddha.
• "Get on your knees and pray, then get on your feet and work." - Gordon B. Hinckley.
• "A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle."
• "The cure for anything is salt water- sweat, tears, or the sea."
• "1 universe, 9 planets, 204 countries, 809 islands, 7 seas, and I had the privelege to meet you."
• Do not worry if you have built your castles in the air. They are where they should be. Now put the foundations under them. -Henry David Thoreau
• __"The sky is the limit And I just wanna flow Free as a spirit on a journey I’ll go Cut the strings and let me go I’m weightless, I’m weightless

"__ -natasha bedingfield

• "Remember a lone amateur built the ark. A Large group of professionals built the titanic."
• "But if all they did was kill time, time would end up killing them" -How it Ends
• "When a man loses his laughter he loses his footing" -One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
• "The more I give to thee the more I have. Because both are infinate" -Midsummer nights dream
• "A mind can't seem to hold anything too crazy for too long without finding a way to make it seem normal." - Stay
• "Love. Isn't it astonishing how confused and complicated such a small, simple word is? It attracts so many other things, doesn't it, that stick to it like barnacles on a rock...fear, guilt. Need. You can't even see the rock anymore. I imaging love in its purest form is a rare thing." -Stay
• "Their actual look could change when their actions were repulsive." -Stay
• "We try to hold a storm in our own fist but we are not that strong." -stay
• "We can get so wrapped up in our own misconceptions that we miss the beauty of the truth." -stay
• "whenever you feel like criticizing anyone just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages you've had." -The Great Gatsby
• "The devil makes work for idle hands" -Clay