- You can't hate a tree without hating the roots.- Hotel Rwanda
- We don't have to be defined by the things we did or didn't do in our past. Some people allow themselves to be controlled by regret. Maybe it's regret, maybe it's not. It's merely something that happened. Get over it.- i don't really know
- 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
- Do you ever wonder whether people would like you more or less if they could see inside you? …I always wonder about that. If people could see me the way I see myself— if they could live in my memories— would anyone love me?- John Green
- How much of my brain is willfully my own? How much is not a rubber stamp of what I have read and heard and lived? Sure, I make a sort of synthesis of what I come across, but that is all that differentiates me from another person?- Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
- Where does a thought go when it’s forgotten?— Sigmund Freud
- People don’t want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messes cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown.— Chuck Palahniuk
- Maybe the two different worlds we lived in weren't so different. We saw the same sunset.- The Outsiders
- The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths.These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.Many people are so imprisoned in their minds that the beauty of nature does not really exist for them. They might say, “What a pretty flower,” but that’s just a mechanical mental labelling. Because they are not still, not present, they don’t truly see the flower, don’t feel it’s essence, it’s holiness- just as they don’t know themselves, don’t feel their own essence, their own holiness.- Eckhart Tolle
- "I knew this boy, we would pass each other every day after school in the exact same spot. And it became something I looked forward to. So much so that I could tell you all the days that he was absent because those were the days I was disappointed. And sometimes he would look at me, sometimes he would turn away, and sometimes it would be so intense that we would start looking at each other from the very beginning of the steps. And then on the last day… he talked to me. And everything he said was exactly how I pictured it would be. And he felt the way he felt in my dreams and I thought everything was happening exactly the way it was supposed to. And I was the happiest I’ve ever been. Happy and scared all at the same time." Rose, The greatest (2009).
- Depression is like a bruise that never goes away. A bruise in your mind. You just got to be careful not to touch it where it hurts. It’s always there, though.- Jeffrey Eugenides
- “People are screwed up in this world. I’d rather be with someone screwed up and open about it than somebody perfect and ready to explode.”- It's Kind of A Funny Story
- You can be the ripest, juiciest peach in the world, and there's still going to be somebody who hates peaches.- Dita Von Ceese
- One day you're seventeen and you're planning for someday. And then quietly, without you ever really noticing, someday is today. And then someday is yesterday, and this is your life.
- It hurts because it mattered. -John Green
- How wonderful is it that we laugh because our bodies cannot contain the joy.
oct 26 2012 ∞
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