Positive Quotes ... Page 3
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"i've made more mistakes than i can count upon my fingertips. i have been ashamed and i have felt guilty as all sin. counting every tear that drops cannot account for any loss. i'll let the past remain behind me now... fill it up with goodness; i'll drink it down with love." - Jann Arden, 'never give up on me'
"I love it when a plan comes together." - The A-Team
"No, I won't ever be the same. I've accepted that my life has reached a point of change, and instead of running away... I've decided to embrace it." - Jenna
"Today I woke up more awake than I have felt in years. Not concerned with anything, no tears. Well I'm done with that shit." - Alkaline Trio, "this is getting over you"
"'Oh you know what I mean. Some people like a project. Like to research and find the newest drug, the best doctors, the latest this, the hottests that. I really just want to enjoy my home, my daughters, take my walks, and have a nice glass of wine at night. I don't need anything else.'" - Ask Again Later by Jill A. Davis
"i do it for the joy it brings, because i'm a joyful girl. because the world owes me nothing, and we owe each other the world." - Ani DiFranco, 'joyful girl'
"You're probably not gonna want to be friends with me anymore because the sheer intensity of my happiness is going to make your teeth hurt. But that's okay because life is good. Life is good." - Grey's Anatomy
"But then I thought maybe it's not that I'm more beautiful today. Maybe I was just as beautiful yesterday, only I lacked the self-esteem to recognize it. " - Gilmore Girls
"Do you ever just sit down and start writing? and everything going through your head just pours onto the paper, and when you reread it, it doesn't make sense, but you know it's meaning, cause your mind jumps around so much when you just let go, you lose all control. All of your heart, your soul, is on that paper, and you become so vulnerable to the world."
"I can't think of any one reason why I want to be a surgeon, but I can think of a thousand reasons why I should quit. They make it hard on purpose. There are lives in our hands. There comes a moment when it's more than just a game. And you either take that step forward or turn around and walk away. I could quit, but here's the thing... I love the playing field." - Grey's Anatomy
"My will shall shape my future. Whether I fail or succeed shall be no [wo]man's doing but my own. I am the force; I can clear any obstacle before me or I can be lost in the maze. My choice; my responsibility; win or lose, only I hold the key to my destiny."
"Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a successful executive." - Scott Adams
"Had this dream forever, and it's comin' true at last. Now, lookin' back, the hard times were just lessons from the past." - Toby Keith, "Woman behind the man"
"with a fantasy like this, who wants the truth?" - bed of roses
"you know I live in a world full of hope, not a world full of hype. I ain't no saint, I help myself to what I need, but I help other people too -- y'know I sleep soundly." - Ani DiFranco, 'egos like hairdos'
"I had a near-death whatever and I was dead. And now I'm not. So, I'd like to use this chance I've been given to be more positive. People are what matters. Paint with all the colors of the wind." - Grey's Anatomy
"Maybe being different isn't the end of the world. It's just who I am." -Heroes
"I feel like I can face the day, I can forgive, and I'm not ashamed to be the person that I am today." - Staind
"In my heart I know the answer that all the things I looked so hard to find were right here all along." - Amanda Marshall, "right here all along"
"i don't know where the time goes but it sure goes fast, just like that... we were wannabe rebels that didn't have a clue, in our rock n roll t-shirts and our typically bad attitudes, had no excuses for the things that we'd done, we were brave, we were crazy, we were mostly- young.." - Kenny Chesney
"Clark, if there's one lesson I've learned from you, it's that choosing the greater good is never a sacrifice. " - Smallville
"i try to speak but the tears choke the words and i think i finally know what they mean when they talk about joy." - mineral
"my whole world is in tune and so much clearer now ." - Carbon Leaf, "home"
"I think I'll take a moment, celebrate my age: the ending of an era and the turning of a page." - Tim McGraw, "Next Thirty Years"
"no one can be my equal because I'm the king of rain." - Alkaline Trio, "this is getting over you"
"I'm not looking back into the fog anymore -- not when I can stare into the sunshine."
"I don't know about you guys, but I've made a lot of mistakes in my life. I've hurt a lot of people and I've been hurt by a lot of people. There's a lot of guys out there that really mistreat girls, and a lot of girls out there that really mistreat guys. I've broken promises that I've made to people that I love and to God and everything. I've messed up a lot, and the point is that if you've been messed up and made mistakes doesn't mean that you have to keep screwing up, or that your life is ruined and that you're worthless. It means that you can start over, you just have to make that decision yourself." - Lacey Sturm
"Today's gonna be a, a less bad day, I can feel it. Sometimes I wake up and I just know everything's gonna be... less bad." - Ally McBeal
"It has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain when awake." - Mark Twain
"I believe that we're about to accomplish something amazing."
"It's just, in high school, knowledge was pretty much frowned upon. You really had to work to learn anything. But here, the energy, the collective intelligence... It's like this force, this penetrating force, and I can just feel my mind opening up, you know, and letting this place just thrust into and- and spurt knowledge into... That sentence ended up in a different place than it started out in. " - Buffy the Vampire Slayer
"I'm living like there's no tomorrow, because there isn't one." - Mad Men
"In life, the most interesting things tend to happen when you're on your way to do something else." - Gabrielle Zevin, Margarettown
"I don't want to sit around and hope good things will happen. I want to make them happen. I want to be in control of my own destiny." - Drew Barrymore
"There is something to be said for not quitting, not giving up, and showing up to the difficult times as well as the easy ones. If you pursue your dreams you can't quit when you fail, you can't quit when you mess up, and you can't quit when life seems to deal you a tough end." - President Clinton
"I'm not going to limit myself just because people won't accept the fact that I can do something else." - Dolly Parton
"I am beginning to measure myself in strength, not pounds. Sometimes in smiles." -Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson
"If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence. Determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying, 'Here comes number seventy-one!'"
"I knew I could sing because my music teacher told me I had a voice, but I had never really performed before. I grabbed the mic and just went for it. Afterwards I knew that I've got to do this for the rest of my life. That's what got the whole ball rolling for me." - Adam Levine
"I decided, very early on, just to accept life unconditionally; I never expected it to do anything special for me, yet I seemed to accomplish far more than I had ever hoped. Most of the time it just happened to me without my ever seeking it." - Audrey Hepburn
"I would like to be remembered as someone who accomplished useful deeds, and who was a kind and loving person. I would like to leave the memory of a human being with a correct attitude and who did her best to help others." -Grace Kelly
"I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. �Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death." - Leonardo da Vinci
"I believe in the magic of books. I believe that during certain periods in our lives we are drawn to particular books--whether it's strolling down the aisles of a bookshop with no idea whatsoever of what it is that we want to read and suddenly finding the most perfect, most wonderfully suitable book staring us right in the face. Unblinking. Or a chance meeting with a stranger or friend who recommends a book we would never ordinarily reach for. Books have the ability to find their own way into our lives." - Cecelia Ahern
"I got dressed through the mess and put a smile on my face." - Sara Evans, "A Little Bit Stronger"
"I won't let my dreams get buried even when I'm feeling down. I won't linger in the darkness, I'll be walking out!" - Sara Evans, "Low"
"I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions." - Augusten Burroughs
"I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death." - Robert Fulghum
"I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do." - Edward Everett Hale
