• "I want to taste all that I could possibly taste in this lifetime: both ends of the spectrum and everything in between."

that basically sums it up for me- why i am the way i am and why i do what i do.

• "Colin Powell...is a warm glass of milk and a cookie for those voters who have a hard time going to sleep at night." - Alex Castellanos, Republican Strategist
• "i like too many things, and get all confused and hung up running from one falling star to another, til i drop." -jack kerouac
• "I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in life. And I am horribly limited" — Sylvia Plath
• "Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable." Dr. Joyce Brothers
• "I'm the type who'd be happy not going anywhere as long as I was sure I knew exactly what was happening at the places I wasn't going to. I'm the type who'd like to sit home and watch every party that I'm invited to on a monitor in my bedroom." - andy warhol
• “Be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe; no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should. Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be. And whatever your labors and aspirations in the noisy confusion of life, keep peace with your soul. With all its shame, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world.” - Max Ehrman
• "Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense." -Ralph Waldo Emerson
• I’m selfish, impatient, and a little insecure. I make mistakes. I’m out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can’t handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don’t deserve me at my best. -Marilyn Monroe
• After awhile you learn the subtle difference between holding a hand and chaining a soul and you learn that love doesn’t mean leaning and company doesn’t mean security, and you learn that kisses aren’t contracts and presents aren’t promises and you begin to accept your defeats with your head up and your eyes open, with the grace of an adult, not the grief of a child, and you learn to build all your roads on today because tomorrow’s ground is too uncertain for plans. So plant your own garden and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers. And you learn that you really can endure, that you really are strong, and you really do have worth.

- Veronica A. Shoffstall

• There’s a trick to the “graceful exit.” It begins with the vision to recognize when a job, a life stage, or a relationship is over — and let it go. It means leaving what’s over without denying its validity or its past importance to our lives. It involves a sense of future, a belief that every exit line is an entry, that we are moving up, rather than out. - Ellen Goodman
• Don’t ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. - Harold Whitman
• "A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesnt believe, and leaves before she is left." - Marilyn Monroe
• "Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut." - Ernest Hemingway
• "Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted." - Randy Pausch
• "But if the truth causes scandal, then it is a better a scandal than that the truth be abandoned." - Gregory the Great
• A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left. - marilyn monroe
• I always felt I was nobody and the only way for me to be somebody was to be... well, somebody else. - marilyn monroe
• I always felt insecure and in the way — but most of all I felt scared. I guess I wanted love more than anything else in the world. - marilyn monroe
• I don't mind living in a man's world as long as I can be a woman in it. - marilyn monroe
• I won't be satisfied until people want to hear me sing without looking at me. -marilyn monroe
• I'm not interested in money. I just want to be wonderful. -marilyn monroe
• I don't understand why people aren't a little more generous with each other. -marilyn monroe
• It's far better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone — so far. -marilyn monroe
• Men who think that a woman's past love affairs lessen her love for them are usually stupid and weak. A woman can bring new love to each man she loves, providing there aren't too many. -marilyn monroe
• No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they are pretty, even if they aren't. -marilyn monroe
• No sex is wrong if there is love in it. But, too often, people act like it's gymnasium work, mechanical. -marilyn monroe
• Beneath the make-up and behind the mask I am just a girl who wishes for the world. - marilyn monroe
• I'm selfish, impatient, and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control, and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best. - marilyn monroe
• “Learn to ask for what you want. The worst people can do is not give you what you ask for which is precisely where you were before you asked.” — Peter McWilliams