- “for someone who was never meant for this world, i must confess... i'm suddenly having a hard time leaving it. of course, they say every atom in our bodies was once part of a star. maybe i'm not leaving... maybe i'm going home.” ― vincent freeman, gattaca
- “if i told you you're beautiful every time you look beautiful, i'd never have time for anything else.” ― mike henry, 1x02
- “quentin fields was a basketball player. he was also a son. a brother. somebody’s teammate. somebody’s friend. i never knew quentin fields and i guess now i never will. did you ever wonder what it would be like if you weren’t you anymore? if you were suddenly gone how would your world react? whatever you imagined was wrong. there’s nothing romantic about death. grief is like the ocean: it’s deep and dark and bigger than all of us. and pain is like a thief in the night. quiet. persistent. unfair. diminished by time and faith and love. i didn’t know quentin fields but i’m jealous of him because i see how his absence has affected the people that did know him so i know that he did matter to them. and i know he was loved. people say quentin fields was a great basketball player. graceful. fluid. inspiring. they say on a good night it almost seemed as though he could fly. and now he can.” ― sam walker, 6x03
- “if you're constantly worried about where you are, you'll always stay just out of reach of where you want to be.” ― john o'callaghan
- “education is the most powerful weapon which we can use to change the world.” ― nelson mandela
- “man cannot be both savior and oppressor, light and shadow. one has to be sacrificed for the other. choose, and choose wisely. or others shall choose for you.” ― madame gao, 1x10
- “success is important, but it's meaningless if we lose ourselves.” ― jessica huang, 1x13
- “everybody feels these moments of sadness and moments of loss, and sometimes i think everybody can relate to sitting alone and feeling like crap, and a friend of yours comes up and starts like, you know, 'come one, feel happy', and you don't want that. sometimes it's alright to let yourself live in a moment and let yourself be upset about something, and so that you can show yourself that regardless of how low you feel, you can always rise out of it, but not in that moment. and so the song ends with the lyric 'i believe that we all fall down', but i don't say 'but we get back up'. it's just, sometimes you fall down, and sometimes you feel low, and that's okay.” ― andy biersack
- “i just wanna say this: is our fourth time here in brazil and it’s... it’s so amazing, man, you guys don’t know how you make us feel. i hope that somebody in your life can make you feel like you guys make us feel. like, everything that you’ve been doing, all the hard work you’ve been putting into something… it makes it feel like this is making sense and this means something to somebody, so i just wanna say from the bottom of my heart, thank you very much for having us back here, man. i just wanna tell you in as few words as possible, that you all, everybody individually, everybody in this room, anybody that you know, everybody that you’ve ever met, your parents, your friends, everybody… you guys should know this: you are the most beautiful thing on the face of this planet that you’ve ever discovered, okay? you need to understand that. anything you wanna do in your life is possible, you’re capable of doing it because you’re fucking beautiful. this is amazing, that you’re all here. and if i learned anything over the past eight years is that hard work means everything, nothing comes easy. all these things that you’ve always heard, everybody that sings songs about this shit, everybody that writes movies and it’s like “hey, son! nothing comes easy, alright?”, that shit is so true and i know we hear it too often for us to be, you know, understanding and believing it but i am telling you. i’m not gonna become an astronaut because i did too many drugs back at the day. i’m not allowed to go to space anymore but everything besides an astronaut, i can fucking be, you understand that? and all you can too, okay? i’m in a very, very cool place in my life and i know that some people out there can be very sad sometimes. i was very sad just a couple of years ago but life is about ups and downs and I’ve said it before and i’ll say it again: life would not be what it is and it wouldn’t make it all make sense if the ups were only ups. you gotta understand the downs, you guys are fucking beautiful, just remember that, okay? we’re here for too little of a time to be down on ourselves and to be sad for too often, okay? so, take the sadness, understand it and fucking turn it into that happiness and just enjoy walking outside and seeing those fucking palm trees, you know what i mean? you guys live in a beautiful place. i’m so serious and i’m sorry for cursing so much, if my mom was here, she’d be very upset but i just wanted to say, man. please take care of each other. please take care of yourself most importantly. i got a message a long time ago, probably 3 or 4 months ago…. fuck. it’s hard to talk about because i’ve been really, really low before and i’ve been… fuck. i just wanted to say that it’s so much better to be here, it’s so much better to be alive, it’s so much better. fuck, i just wanted to say, man, that if you’re feeling low, it’s worth it to push through. it’s so, so worth it. we are so fortunate to be given life and we’re just so fortunate to be here, man, and all i gotta say is just fucking push through. it gets better, i tell you what, it does. it gets better and it fucking makes sense when you’re through it, alright? so, please, just be strong for each other, be strong for yourself, alright? because we all deserve to be here. no matter anybody says, no matter how you feel. you fucking deserve to be here and i just want to thank you so much for supporting what we do and to allow us to make music, to allow me to write words and to express myself and fucking find a light at the end of the tunnel, man. so thank you very much, i love you guys. thank you.” ― john o'callaghan
- “well, we don't know what our path will be or what toll this journey will take on each of us, but we have to trust it will be successful. and if we ever feel lost, all we need to do is look around and see that we're not traveling alone.” ― louise shepard, 1x01
- “my precious child… these are the things i hope for you and your life. may you be bold. may you be brave. may you be loving, and joyful, and kind. may you carry with you the vitality and spirit of the generations before you. whatever you dream for your life, may you summon the strength to follow that dream. may you always let your faith be greater than your fear. may you never forget, through all of life’s adventures, through every moment of every day, that i walk beside you, cheering you on. hoping for you, praying for you. loving you. and may you one day love your own child as deeply as i love you. today and always.” ― alba, xo and jane villanueva, 2x03
- “in peace may you leave the shore. in love may you find the next. safe passage on your travels until our final journey on the ground... may we meet again.” ― clarke griffin, 3x07
- “you don't know what my problem is? well, here's a hint. it's you. you think you supported and loved me? when? how? yes, mother, i got pregnant when i was 17, not exactly the highlight of homecoming. but i did the best i could for a terrified teenager. and what did you, my mother, do? hmm? you threw me out of the house. thankfully, ray's family took me in. but even that wasn't enough for you, was it? (...) you didn't come to my wedding, because you said i was an embarrassment. and then you simply disowned me. oh, i believe your words were, 'you don't have a mother.' you refused to see danny until he was four. and then when ben came along, you told me that i was ruining my life, and adding another dumbo. oh, but the true icing on the crap cake was what you said to me when i told you that ben was a father to a beautiful little girl. do you remember that lovely letter you sent, ma? huh? 'the rotten apple doesn't fall far from the rotten tree. he's a dummy, just like his mommy.' so guess what, you cold, heartless, liquor filled excuse for a mother? you don't get to have this family. it is mine.” ― bonnie wheeler, 5x14
- “entreat me not to leave thee, or return from following after thee— for whither thou goest, i will go, and where thou lodgest, i will lodge. thy people shall be my people, and thy god my god. where thou diest, will i die, and there will i be buried. the angel do so to me, and more also, if aught but death part thee and me.” ― parabatai oath
- “often, it’s not about becoming a new person, but becoming the person you were meant to be, and already are, but don’t know how to be.” ― heath l. buckmaster
- “look again at that dot. that’s here. that’s home. that’s us. on it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. the aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every “superstar,” every “supreme leader,” every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there–on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. the earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. in our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. the earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. there is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. visit, yes. settle, not yet. like it or not, for the moment the earth is where we make our stand. it has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. there is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. to me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we’ve ever known.” - carl sagan
- “it wasn't their words, it's that i started to believe them. their words seemed to confirm what growing up as a woman and a person of color already taught me: that i belonged in margins and spaces, valid only as a minor character in their lives and stories. and those words awakened something deep inside me — a feeling i thought i had grown out of. the same feeling i had when at 9, i stopped speaking vietnamese altogether because i was tired of hearing other kids mock me. or at 17, when at dinner with my white boyfriend and his family, i ordered a meal in perfect english, to the surprise of the waitress, who exclaimed, 'wow, it's so cute that you have an exchange student!' their words reinforced a narrative i had heard my whole life: that i was 'other', that i didn't belong, that i wasn't good enough, simply because i wasn't like them. and that feeling, i realize now, was, and is, shame, a shame for the things that made me different, a shame for the culture from which i came from. and to me, the most disappointing thing was that i felt it at all. because the same society that taught some people they were heroes, saviors, inheritors of the manifest destiny ideal, taught me i existed only in the background of their stories, doing their nails, diagnosing their illnesses, supporting their love interests — and perhaps the most damaging — waiting for them to rescue me. and for a long time, i believed them. i believed those words, those stories, carefully crafted by a society that was built to uphold the power of one type of person — one sex, one skin tone, one existence. it reinforced within me rules that were written before i was born, rules that made my parents deem it necessary to abandon their real names and adopt american ones — tony and kay — so it was easier for others to pronounce, a literal erasure of culture that still has me aching to the core. and as much as i hate to admit it, i started blaming myself. i thought, 'oh, maybe if i was thinner' or 'maybe if i grow out my hair' and, worst of all, 'maybe if i wasn't asian.' for months, i went down a spiral of self-hate, into the darkest recesses of my mind, places where i tore myself apart, where i put their words above my own self-worth. and it was then that i realized i had been lied to. i had been brainwashed into believing that my existence was limited to the boundaries of another person's approval. i had been tricked into thinking that my body was not my own, that i was beautiful only if someone else believed it, regardless of my own opinion. i had been told and retold this by everyone: by the media, by hollywood, by companies that profited from my insecurities, manipulating me so that i would buy their clothes, their makeup, their shoes, in order to fill a void that was perpetuated by them in the first place. yes, i have been lied to. we all have. and it was in this realization that i felt a different shame — not a shame for who i was, but a shame for the world i grew up in. and a shame for how that world treats anyone who is different. i am not the first person to have grown up this way. this is what it is to grow up as a person of color in a white-dominated world. this is what it is to be a woman in a society that has taught its daughters that we are worthy of love only if we are deemed attractive by its sons. this is the world i grew up in, but not the world i want to leave behind. i want to live in a world where children of color don't spend their entire adolescence wishing to be white. i want to live in a world where women are not subjected to scrutiny for their appearance, or their actions, or their general existence. i want to live in a world where people of all races, religions, socioeconomic classes, sexual orientations, gender identities and abilities are seen as what they have always been: human beings. this is the world i want to live in. and this is the world that i will continue to work toward. these are the thoughts that run through my head every time i pick up a script or a screenplay or a book. i know the opportunity given to me is rare. i know that i now belong to a small group of privileged people who get to tell stories for a living, stories that are heard and seen and digested by a world that for so long has tasted only one thing. i know how important that is. and i am not giving up. you might know me as kelly. i am the first woman of color to have a leading role in a 'star wars' movie. i am the first asian woman to appear on the cover of vanity fair. my real name is loan. and i am just getting started.” - kelly marie tran
- “today is no day to fall apart. no day to over think, or second guess; to cry or agozine. today is the perfect day to seize and devour like the sweet and fragile thing it is. you don't plan life, you live it, and you'll never have a chance at today again.” - john o'callaghan
- “n'oubliez jamais qu’il suffira d’une crise politique, économique ou religieuse pour que les droits des femmes soient remis en question. ces droits ne sont jamais acquis. vous devrez rester vigilantes votre vie durant.” - simone de beauvoir
may 15 2015 ∞
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