"I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road."
"It never makes sense while you're living it. It's only when you look back that you can understand it all." -Kelsey
"Sometimes you gotta laugh through the tears and smile through the pain so that you can live through the sorrow." - Alex Tan
"Nothing that makes sense ever works out." - Jimmy Eat World
"A lot of people get flipped out if you're quiet. They say stuff like, 'What are you thinking?' And if they don't start interrogating you, they start talking … going on and on about stuff that's totally irrelevant. And the silence gets so big and loud that it's scary." - My So-Called Life
"I don't know what's worse; to not know what you are and be happy, or to become what you've always wanted to be, and feel alone." - Flowers for Algernon
"You've got to accept the fact that life isn't a fairy tale, things aren't always happily ever after. Things like magic wishes, Prince Charmings and true love don't happen in real life. Magic wishes come from money, Prince Charming's a shallow idiot with a bad haircut and overpriced clothes. And true love? Ha, true love is one-sided, Ace. You love her, she loves someone else. She loves you, you love someone else. Never quite works out does it? So you end up with some actor pretending to be your true love. Real considerate of someone to let you know reality was like that before being thrown into it. 'If you wish, it'll happen.' Well, wish in one hand and crap in the other and see which one fills up faster. Welcome to reality. Enjoy your stay."
"It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them." - Caron de Beaumarchais
"So the more things remain the same, the more they change after all." - A Separate Peace
"We choose Evil for the Good we see in it." - Aristotle
"Surprisingly enough, this is the past someone in the future is longing to return to." - Ashleigh Briliant
"As real as something can be that's entirely an illusion." - Dawson's Creek
"The only normal people are the one's you don't know very well."-Alfred Alder
"What is hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most to us are wrapped up in parentheses." -John Irving, The Cider House Rules
"One of the tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon, instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today." - Dale Carnegie
"You can plan a pretty picnic but you can't predict the weather." - Outkast
"More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones."
"all our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last." - marcel proust
"some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see what you would have wanted had you known." - garrison keillor
"people are funny, ya know? it's like from the moment they meet you they are setting standards for the type of person you should be... without even knowing the type of person that you are. and when you fail to meet these standards they say you aren't the person they knew... and when you fly over the standards they do everything they can to bring you down…" -beckie
"Here's the one sweet lesson of history: Every soul is a mystery; faces change - what you knew grows strange; and we all have so many faces; the real self often erases..." - The Scarlet Pimpernel
"Some days you think you can hold it together.. other days you just gotta let it go.."
"the sad thing is people get so used to their image they grow attached to their masks; they love their chains; they forget all about who they really are, and if you try to remind them, they hate you for it they feel like your trying to steal their most precious possession."
"Anyone can give up, it's the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart, that's true strength."
"I can say, 'I am terribly frightened, and fear is terrible and awful, and it makes me uncomfortable, so I won't do that because it's uncomfortable.' Or I could say, 'Get used to being uncomfortable. It is uncomfortable doing something that's risky.' But so what? Do you want to stagnate and just be comfortable?" - Barbara Streisand
"The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain." - Dolly Parton
"some of gods greatest gifts are unanswered prayers." - garth brooks
"The answer came like a shot in the back while you were running from your lesson, which might explain why years later all you could remember was the terror of the question." - Ani Difranco 'Marrow'
"and god help you if you are an ugly girl; course too pretty is also your doom. cause everyone harbors a secret hatred for the prettiest girl in the room." - ani difranco, '32 flavors'
"you've gotta live light enough to see the humor and long enough to see some change." - ani difranco, 'pick yer nose'
"some of life's best lessons are learned at the worst times." - ani difranco, 'lost woman song'
"It isn't... And it is.... And it isn't. But it's worth it. Every single time." - dawson's creek
"Girls suck. It's like they get lobotomized the second they hit puberty. One day you're all milling around in the Rainbow Brite section at FAO Schwartz. The next day someone has breasts... After that, it's all about getting boys to like you and whoever dies the thinnest wins." - dawson's creek
"Everyone wants life to run smoothly, but it's the mistakes that make life interesting." - Dawson's Creek
"I think everyone feels alone and wants to be normal but I don't think everyone ever really does." - Dawson's Creek
"Everything is wonderful until proven crap." - Dawson's Creek
"Insanity is seeing things that don't exist. Intelligence is understanding them." - Chris Johnson
"Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when nothing changes a speck, when you don't go anywhere or do anything or think one new thought. And then you can get hit with a day or an hour, or half a second, when so much happens its almost like you are born all over again into some brand-new person you for damn sure never expected to meet." - Life is Funny
"the only reason that you don't have answers is because you're too scared to ask yourself the right question." - dawson's creek
"It's not brave if you're not scared." - Bounce
"young men go to war, sometimes because they have to, sometimes because they want to. always they feel they are supposed to. this comes from the sad, layered stories of life, which over the centuries have seen courage confused with picking up arms, and cowardice confused with laying them down." - the five people you meet in heaven by mitch albom
"'once you get your fingers on the important questions, you can't turn away from them.'" - tuesdays with morrie by mitch albom
"'we don't believe we are as much alike as we are. Whites and blacks, Catholics and Protestants, men and women. If we saw each other as more alike, we might be very eager to join in one big human family in this world, and to care about that family the way we care about our own.'" - tuesdays with morrie by mitch albom
"'if you're trying to show off for people at the top, forget it. They will look down at you anyhow. And if you're trying to show off for people at the bottom, forget it. They will only envy you. Status will get you nowhere.'" - tuesdays with morrie by mitch albom
"we're so wrapped up with egotistical things, career, family, having enough money, meeting the mortgage, getting a new car, fixing the radiator when it breaks -- we're involved in trillions of little acts just to keep going. So we don't get into the habit of standing back and looking at our lives and saying, Is this all? Is this all I want? Is something missing?'" - tuesdays with morrie by mitch albom
"'life is a series of pulls back and forth. You want to do one thing, but you are bound to do something else. Something hurts you, yet you know it shouldn't. you take certain things for granted, even when you know you should never take anything for granted.'" - tuesdays with morrie by mitch albom
"isn't that the thing with fantasies? fantasies are absolutely safe, as long as you never try to make them a reality. whether you're fantasizing about wife-swapping, or cafe/bookshops, it's still a truism that they will always be safer when they are kept locked in your head." - bookends by jane green
"At the end of the day, dealing with your own anguish is easy enough compared to dealing with the pain you've caused." - My legendary Girlfriend by Mike Gayle
"You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it."
