JOHN:

• Sometimes, days can feel like they blend together, unless you consciously make an effort to do something out of the ordinary.
• Cause this is life in every breath you take and there is hope with every move you make. and every single mistake you think you've made should make you feel alive. Cause you only have one chance to live in this spec we call life.
• I think you're blind to the fact that the hands you're holding are the hands that are holding you down.
• We’re all searching for purpose in a land of nothingness. How can you win a never-ending race?
• Do you ever feel alone? Do you ever feel at home? I just want, I want the answers now. I want to tell you you'll be okay, someway, somehow. Hold nothing back, speak how you feel. So life's a fact, and this shit is real. Cause I know it gets rough, and it seems like there's no hope left. So next time you get real low, just take a breath, just sing it out. Just take a breath. Don't be scared. I'll be here. Control your mind.
• The only dreams that matter are those you have when you're awake.
• Take it easy, cause we're all still breathing. Some people have real problems. Write that down.
• What you do, and who you are, makes a difference.
• Give yourself some credit for the work you put in with your own two hands. But remember to never forget the people and things that helped you along the way.

ALEX:

• Up to this point, I feel like I’ve done an excellent job of keeping just about everything true about myself, to myself… and for good reason - what people don’t know, people can’t use against you.
• Love is not only blind, but a fool, a stumbling mess falling backwards through showroom doors into atmospheres unwelcoming of his presence.
• It’s funny how the littlest things can make you feel larger than life; the right lyric, the most heartfelt melody, the clearest message. Love.
• Don’t throw yourself out on another’s whim. People change, as do intentions and as a result, consequences. Live for yourself, love those around you, but realize that they’ve got their own agendas. People will screw you, you will screw people.
• We were so tired, yet so alive.
• Above all else, he will remain steadfast as trees do, through the harshest of Januarys, as time is but a matter of context, where in his wasted heart will beat for her always.
• It's easy to forget how to appreciate your front door, when you’re always walking through it.
• And I’ll never second guess the things that i have done, I’ve got too much left to say, and too much to become.
• Dreams don’t always have to exist while the sun’s down and your eyes are shut.
• And you were always second guessing, the way we used to be, when it all comes down, I hope you remember me.
• Jealous hearts will leave us all in ruins
• This is me asking for a brick to e thrown through my window, a message attached that reads, “Why can’t you just wake up?” I am not a star, don’t look up to me in the hopes of finding something more. That which is out of reach does not promise anyone a goddamn thing. Hope arises in possibility, but possibility is fragmented and selfish, so don’t think for a second that i am safe ground to walk on. I will sink beneath the feet of a thousand travelling companions, and make ruin of any city’s foundations, because concrete and steel can never tell a soul how it feels. Our street corners keep secrets, and our road signs only suggest, never deciding for us, never knowing if the destination to which they lead, is where we truely belong. Life’s greatest tragedy is not that it will some day end, but that most of us just live to follow directions, and many times we end up totally lost.
• I’m haunted by everything that you gave me, you made me, you broke me, you saved me. I'm crazy but I'm not done.. so when are you gonna give it up?
• When it all comes down to a sunrise on the eastside, will you be there to carry home, the remains of my wasted youth, this wasted time one you has left me shaking in waiting for something more.

STEPHEN:

• life isn’t something you go through blinded by the joys in the world

not seeing it’s flaws, not seeing it’s injustices.

things happen they happen to you, they happen to me, they happen to us all.

pick up the pieces and keep moving you’ll find happiness, you’ll find sorrow, it’s all part of life.

you’ll be fine through it all. we’ll all be fine

• someone told me tonight that they lost a good majority of friends their because they didn’t pronounce a belief in god. quite frankly, that sickens me. not believing in god is just as legitimate as having a belief in god. you don’t know, i don’t know, let’s move on.

while i can’t criticize someone for their beliefs, i can say with confidence that organized religion is destructive, it has been the cause of almost every major war this planet has seen and does nothing but build barriers that are often times impossible to break down.

non-believers have been silenced for too long, it’s completely unjustified that we are subject to so much hate and criticism for simply not believing. just because i don’t believe doesn’t mean i lack morality, it doesn’t make me any less human than those who do.

if this offends you so much that you start to hate me, my band or anyone else who shares this belief system then so long, nice knowing you.

• i’m not afraid of dying alone, i’m afraid of dying without you.

i may not even know who you are yet. i may have already met you. i may have already lost you.

• you don’t die and go to heaven.

you don’t die and go to hell. you don’t die and keep living, you just die.

live the one life you have to the fullest.

(if you hate me now for my beliefs you have some growing up to do)