• Nobody Will Laugh by Milan Kundera

"We pass through the present with our eyes blindfolded. We are permitted merely to sense and guess at what we are actually experiencing. Only later when the cloth is untied can we glance at the past and find out what we have experienced and what meaning it has."

• "everyone knows how to talk and no one knows what to say"-Nick Hornby
• It is not what they take away from you that counts. It is what you do with what you have left. - Hubert Humphrey
• You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

• it's only after we've lost everything that we are free to do anything (chuck palahniok, fight club)
• "Still sometimes we have to see for ourselves. We have to make our own mistakes. We have to learn our own lessons. We have to sweep today's possibility under tomorrow's rug until we can't anymore. Until we finally understand for ourselves. That knowing is better than wondering, that waking is better than sleeping, and even the biggest failure, even the worst, beat the hell out of never trying."- Greys Anatomy
• I play it cool

And dig all jive. That’s the reason I stay alive.

My motto, As I live and learn, is: Dig And Be Dug In Return. -langston hughes

• In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

Robert Frost

• "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 now 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)
• "It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye." (The Little Prince)
• "no matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas can change the world." - dead poets society
• "we have to face the fact that all of us are going to die together or we're to learn to live together, and if we're going to live together we have to talk." -eleanor roosevelt
• "they say time heals all things. they say you can always forget, but the smiles and tears across the years they twist my heart strings yet" - george orwell, 1984
• "what is success? to laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better; to know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived; this is to have succeeded." - ralph waldo emerson
• "One day in retrospect the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful."– Sigmund Freud
• “He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.” - elbert hubbard
• “If you could only sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you can be to the people you may never even dream of. There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person.”- Fred Rogers