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"sometimes you see a person, and you wonder why you don't spend more time with that person, because they're like one of your favorite people.... and then they say something and you remember why you don't." - my so called life
"there's a moment we all come to in our own time and our own space, where all that we've done we can undo if our heart's in the right place." - Garth brooks
"it's funny how the world changes sometimes.. how the streets you've walked your entire life suddenly seem darker, colder. how the silence isn't so quiet anymore. how eyes you've barely even noticed, now look at nothing but you. how the walk home every night is no longer a routine, but a victory. and then you begin to wonder that maybe it's not the world that's changed, maybe it's just you." - Roswell
"People don't change -- you just never knew who they really were."
"sometimes the people we meet in life change us forever." - forces of nature
"if it didn't matter you wouldn't spend so much time thinking about it."
"everything, good or bad, has a purpose." - now and then
"strength is nothing more than how well you hide the pain."
"the present's just a pleasant interruption to the past." - something corporate
"There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want." - Calvin and Hobbes
"It's not brave if you're not scared." - Bounce
"The only true currency in this bankrupt world... is what you share with someone else when you're uncool." -Almost Famous
"Genius is in the mistakes (woo!). The rules do not apply (they don't)." - amanda marshall, "the voice inside"
"poetry wasn't meant to be obvious on its surface, and every reader, whether they were Princeton smarties or community-college dropouts, had to go through the process of deciphering the words, then the sentences, then the stanzas, pulling the poem apart and putting it back together before it would yield its meaning." - in her shoes by jennifer weiner
"'holding anger is a poison. it eats you from inside. we think that hating is a weapon that attacks the person who harmed us. but hatred is a curved blade. and the harm we do, we do to ourselves.'" - the five people you meet in heaven by mitch albom
"'we move through places every day that would never have been if not for those who came before us.'" - the five people you meet in heaven by mitch albom
"'sacrifice is part of life. it's supposed to be. it's not something to regret. it's something to aspire to. little sacrifices. big sacrifices.'" - the five people you meet in heaven by mitch albom
"'that's what heaven is. you get to make sense of your yesterdays.'" - the five people you meet in heaven by mitch albom
"'dying? not the end of everything. we think it is. but what happens on earth is only the beginning.'" - the five people you meet in heaven by mitch albom
"'strangers are just family you have yet to come to know.'" - the five people you meet in heaven by mitch albom
"'people think of heaven as a paradise garden, a place where they can float on clouds and laze in rivers and mountains. but scenery without solace is meaningless. this is the greatest gift God can give you: to understand what happened in your life. to have it explained. it is the peace you have been searching for.'" - the five people you meet in heaven by mitch albom
"have you ever really had a teacher? One who saw you as a raw but precious thing, a jewel that, with wisdom, could be polished to a proud shine? If you are lucky enough to find your way to such teachers, you will always find your way back." - tuesdays with morrie by mitch albom
"'you can't get stuck on what should have happened. That doesn't help you.'" - 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
"the moon is so busy with the new souls of the world that it disappears from the sky. That is why we have moonless nights. But in the end, the moon always returns, as do we all." - tuesdays with morrie by mitch albom
"'In addition to all the miseries, the young are not wise. They have very little understanding about life. Who wants to live every day when you don't know what's going on? When people are manipulating you, telling you to buy this perfume and you'll be beautiful, or this pair of jeans and you'll be sexy -- and you believe them! It's such nonsense.'" - tuesdays with morrie by mitch albom
"'if you've found the meaning in your life, you don't want to go back. You want to go forward. You want to see more, do more.'" - tuesdays with morrie by mitch albom
"'if you're always battling against getting older, you're always going to be unhappy, because it will happen anyhow.'" - tuesdays with morrie by mitch albom
"'you have to find what's good and true and beautiful in your life as it is now. Looking back makes you competitive. And, age is not a competitive issue.'" - tuesdays with morrie by mitch albom
"'neither money nor power will give you the feeling you're looking for, no matter how much of them you have.'" - tuesdays with morrie by mitch albom
"'you know what the Buddhists say? Don't cling to things, because everything is impermanent.'" - tuesdays with morrie by mitch albom
"'detachment doesn't mean you don't let the experience penetrate you. On the contrary, you let it penetrate you fully. That's how you are able to leave it.'" - tuesdays with morrie by mitch albom
"'to know you're going to die, and to be prepared for it at any time. That's better. That way you can actually be more involved in your life while you're living.'" - 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
"'there are mistakes that we make when we're young that can't be fixed when we're older. and so we live with them.'" girls' poker night by jill a davis
"'you set yourself up for happiness or you set yourself up for sadness. either way, it's your doing.'" - girls' poker night by jill a davis
"that's the thing about problems, i guess. you need to buddy up with them, because they never hit the road on their own." - girls' poker night by jill a davis
"human beings have a scary knack for recognizing the competition." - girls' poker night by jill a davis
"that's what people do -- they move into their new life and disassemble the old life in some ungrateful way and leave it out by the curb. like it never served any purpose at all. like self-preservation is some frivolous little thing." - girls' poker night by jill a davis
"Won't do no good to hold no searchlight, you can't illuminate what time has anchored down." - Fiona Apple, 'Carrion'
"Though dreams can be deceiving; like faces are to hearts, they serve for sweet relieving, when fantasy and reality lie too far apart." - Fiona Apple, 'Slow Like Honey'
"If you play it safe in life you've decided you don't want to grow anymore." - Shirley Hutstedler
"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is an attribute of the strong." - Mahatma Gandhi
"Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either." - Golda Meir
"Maturity begins to grow when you can sense your concern for others outweighing your concern for yourself." - John Macnaughton
"There came a time when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful then the risk it took to blossom." - Anais Nin
"sometimes the best way to find out who you are, is to get to that place where you don't have to be anything else." - dave matthews band
"it's what you do that makes your soul, not the other way around."
"there is never a better measure of what a person is, then what he does when he's absolutely free to choose."
"Sometimes when you're shivering so much, you can't remember what it was like not to feel near-frozen. you take whatever warmth comes your way."
