Quotes

We forget constantly that we are not alone. I share these notes as reminders that we are all spectacularly flawed, splendidly imperfect and often misguided . . . thanks for surfing in, any comments/additional quotes would be welcomed at jjoys515@comcast.net



"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves."- President Abraham Lincoln
"I've stolen fire from the men in my life. I tried to get essence from them, I tried to get worth from them, I tried to live through some of them."-Tori Amos.
"Respect is based on friendship, and friendship is based on love, and love is so... accidental."-Henry David Thoreau.
"I don't get mad, I get even. Actually, I don't get even, I usually get mad. Okay, really, I just get depressed and mope for a while. Then, eventually, after much pain and consideration, I get over it."-Kevin Morris.
"If you always tell the truth, you won't have to remember anything."--Mark Twain
"I'm afraid I can't explain myself, sir. Because I'm not myself, you know." Alice in wonderland
"Seems like everyone's an actor, or they're an actor's best friend. I wonder what was wrong to begin with that they should all have to pretend- we lose sight of everything when we have to keep checking our backs, I think we should all just smile, come clean, and relax" -Ani DiFranco
“Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.” -- Soren Kirkegaard
"Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes."--Oscar Wilde
"And this whole thing with yearbook, it's like, everybody's in this big hurry to make this book, to supposedly remember what happened but it's not even what really happened, it's what everyone thinks was supposed to happen. Because if you made a book of what really happened, it'd be a really depressing book. You know, in my humble opinion." ~MSCL
“Maybe it was wrong, but upon my life, I will never regret loving him.”--Unknown
“You never lose by loving, you always lose by holding back.” --Barbara de Angelis
“You’re so close but still a world away; what I’m dying to say is that I’m crazy for you.”--Madonna
“Is there another in your memory? Do you think of that someone when you hear that special melody? I always stop and think of you especially when the words of a love song touch the very heart of me.”--Unknown
“A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.”--William Shakespeare
"Its like I always say, your majesty. . .children got to be free to lead their own lives."--The Little Mermaid
I had a match...but she had a lighter.....i had a flame...but she had a fire....i was bright....but she was much brighter....i was high...but she was the sky.........
“You know that place between asleep and awake, where you still remember dreaming? That’s where I will always think of you.”--Tinkerbell
"Excellent hole Joe."- Chandler
icicle i'm going away today i packed the bags they overflowed i dumped them out i felt so alone i have reached a happy medium…-the raindrops
I miss the innocence I’ve known.- Wilco
Phoebe: [Right after playing a song in the coffee shop ] If you want to receive e-mails about my upcoming shows, then please give me money so I can buy a computer.-Friends
The phone rings. I am not amused. This is not my favourite way to wake up. My favourite way to wake up is to have a certain French movie star whisper to me softly at two thirty in the afternoon that if I want to get to Sweden in time to pick up my Nobel Prize for Literature I had better ring for breakfast. This happens rather less often than one might wish."-Fran Lebowitz
"They say that absense makes the heart grow fungus."-Barenaked Ladies
All I can safely say is that to live under the Grace of God is a predictably unpredictable thing. You should try it sometime. – Andrew Peterson
- As often as our culture tries to tell us what love is, I thought I would put down a little of what I believe love is not. Love is neither a 30-minute sitcom, nor is it a sappy pop ballad. Rather, it is the most difficult and most profound of human experiences, but thanks to our post-modern culture coupled with our own capacity for sin, it’s often much different than we would think. – Derek Webb
- At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict, or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent. - Barbara Bush
- Bebo: My grandfather's name is Grover, he's a single man. Well, actually, he's got a girlfriend. They hold hands and everything...(audience goes 'awwww') Yeah, it's cute unless it's your grandfather, cause it sicks me out.
Christ loved the church enough to die for her, so we should love her enough to be patient with her." - Brian Habig
- Get to the end of me so I can get to the beginning of God.
I can taste the fruit of Eve. I’m aware of sickness, death and disease. The results of her choices were vast, Eve was the first but she wasn’t the last. And if I were honest with myself, had I been standing at that tree, my mouth and my hands would be covered with fruit of things I shouldn’t know, of things I shouldn’t see. – Sara Groves, Generations
I cry like someone dared me to. – Dave Barnes
It’s so silly the things we find to complain about. When there’s Thousand Island and French, but NO RANCH DRESSING for the salad, I complain. When there’s no ice for my coke, I complain. Meanwhile on the other side of the planet children go days without food. Christians meet in caves to worship God in order to avoid arrest or even execution. I snap myself out of selfish-mode when I think about these things. I say to myself, “people are starving to death everyday, and it doesn’t really matter if my favorite shirt got stained or not.” I’m rambling. – Andrew Peterson
I must find basis for my beliefs in Scripture, and not in my syllabus from Bible college. – Andrew Peterson
I feel like I am running from Jesus into the arms of my own clutteredness. – Mike Yaconelli
- I’m thankful for cheese in its many wonderful forms, for the fact that when you change the laundry your fingers are perfectly damp enough from the wet clothes to easily remove the lint from the dryer filter, for Peter Jackson, patty melts and the smell of sawdust. Also, I’m very thankful for an encouraging wife who happens to be as pretty as a flower, and for Aedan, Jesse and Skye, my children who show me daily by their simultaneously appalling and enduring scent that mankind is both far from glory and meant for it…I’m also thankful that my bellybutton is a part of my life. – Andrew Peterson, from the liner notes of Love and Thunder
- I should spend more time laughing at myself... I should spend more time laughing... Derek Webb
- Live your life so the preacher won’t have to lie at your funeral. Unknown
- Life is good, and God is good, and I’m a complete dirt-bag. – Andrew Peterson
Last night the three of us asked God to heal my knee. I woke up the next morning and you know what? It was still swollen. Sometimes it confuses me. I wonder why the Creator of the Universe would refuse to just snap His fingers and fix the knee, y’know? And then I think about the (seemingly) pointless suffering of hungry children that far surpasses any racquetball injury I could ever get, and I wonder why? Why wouldn’t God just fix it all? Then I picture myself lying in that puddle with the groceries and the bloody finger and the nice lady looking down on this fruitcake of a human and I remember just how foolish I am. If I’m moron enough to go riding on a shopping cart in the rain with a bad knee, I’m surely not capable of solving the Problem of Evil on this cold night. What a humbling thing it is to be human. I’d love to dig a little deeper, but I’m getting sleepy. – Andrew Peterson
- My wife would be jealous if I even so much went to McDonalds with a man who looked like a woman. – Kyle
- O to grace how great a debtor/Daily I’m constrained to be/Let thy goodness, like a fetter/Bind my wandering heart to thee/Prone to wander, Lord, I feel it/Prone to leave the God I love/Here’s my heart, now take and seal it/Seal it for thy courts above – Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing
- There will be days when you don't feel "it". Being in love isn't a feeling, it's a union. ~C.S. Lewis
- Three Days Before Autumn – Andrew Peterson
Three days before autumn
A cold winter came
Blew in a telephone call when my friend went away
And I swear I heard thunder at the sound of his name
He never knew me at all, but I loved him the same
And it’s easy enoughTo say he’s better off
Chalk it up
To the luck of the draw
Life is tough
It was his time to go and that’s all
I don’t know about that,
‘cause… angels in heaven are dancing around To the music that I want to hear
And Im watching and wondering why
the silence is louder the harder I try
the winter came early this yearI stood in the kitchen
And I stared at the wall
And I prayed for some wisdom
So I could make a little sense of it all
And I thought about the seasons
How quickly they pass
How there’s little to do but hope
That the good ones will last
And this night is beautiful
I see the sky above the rain
And I think I hear the wind howling again
And I take comfort in know that this aint my home
And I know when Im lonely
That Im not alone
And I know hes singing at the foot of the throne
But that dont seem to matter down here
Because the winter came early this year
Three days before autumn

We’ve had every conversation in the world about what is right and what has all gone bad, but have I mentioned to you that this is all that I am, this is all that I have. I would like to share with you what makes me complete. I don’t claim to have found the truth, but I know it has found me – the only thing that isn’t meaningless to me is Jesus Christ and the way he’s set me free. – Sara Groves, Conversations
When it comes to the spiritual life, I am amazed how many of us don’t know how to dance. We stand before God, the music starts playing, and we are embarrassed by our incompetence…but Jesus cares more about desire than our competence .... (?)
Be the change you want to see in this world. – Ghandi
Be brief, be sincere, be seated. -F.D.R.
"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."-A.M. Homes, Jack
Resentment is like eating rat poison and waiting for the rat to die. Anne Lamott
"The function of freedom is to free someone else" Toni Morrison
You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do. -Anne Lamott
dont go without saying goodbye(thestartingline)
cross your fingers and pray for winter-i'll be there painting the town your favorite color.-TheStartingLine-
"i want so badly to believe that there is truth, that love is real. and i want life in every word to the extent that it's absurd..." _the postal service_
Sirius023: well whenever you get everything you want you have everything to lose
“I met a guy not long ago who was very conservative and had opinions all over him, and he was saying why God agreed with his political ideas and why that made his political ideas right. The whole time he was talking to me I was thinking about those guys in Africa, and I was feeling like this guy with the opinions was presenting a kind of Jesus who didn’t even exist. His Jesus was just an invention of his imagination, someone who more or less justified his polition concerning a lot of differnt political opinions. sitting there listening to him made me feel tired. People like that should have an island.” Donald Miller - Searching For God Knows What
“I had terrific ideas; I really did. I was going to write a story about a nun who takes over small third world countries by causing their evil dictators to fall in love with her, leaving a trail of magachurches and democracy in her wake. The book was going to be called Sister Democracy, Show Some Leg!“ Donald Miller
"Everyone feels benevolent if nothing happens to be annoying him at the moment." CS Lewis
"And Moses was right. god is not here to worship me, to mold Himself into something that will help me fulfill my level of comfort... I understand why people wear crystals around their neck and why they perform chants and gaze at stars. They are lonely. I'm not talking about lonely for a lover or a friend. I mean lonely in the universal sense, lonely inside the understanding that we are tiny little people on a tiny little earth suspended in an endless void that echoes past stars and stars of stars. And it's not like God has a call-in radio show." Donald Miller
I was watching BET one night, and they were interviewing a man about jazz music. He said jazz music was invented by the first generation our of slavery. I thought that was beautiful because, while it is music, it is very hard to put on paper; it is so much more a language of the soul. It is as if the soul were saying something, something about freedom. I think Christian spirituality is like jazz music. i think loving Jesus is something you feel. i think it is something very difficult to get on paper. But it is no less real, no less meaningful, no less beautiful" - Don Miller, "Blue Like Jazz" pg 239
Remember that no one can take your honor from you. You surrender it. - John McAnally
“The mark of a successful man is one that has spent an entire day on the bank of a river without feeling guilty about it.”--Anon
“Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency.”--Natalie Goldberg
“You will forgive people more easily when you end your need to make them wrong.”--Brian Koslow
"Every time I look at myself, I can't believe how awesome I am." - Strong Bad
"I am a whore" - Derek Webb
"I am that man" - Jennifer Knapp
Two of my favorite songwriters at their finest. ;)
"And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God." Micah 6:8
try and feel, try and listen, try and think of what you're missing, try to look into my eyes. TRY. Goodbye. -thestartingline.
" I believe in being fully present," Morrie said. " That means you should be with the person you're with. When I am talking to now , Mitch, I try to keep focused only on what is going on between us. I am not thinking about something we said last week. I am not thinking of whats coming up this Friday. I am not thinking about doing another Koppel Show, or about what medications I'm taking. I am talking to you. I am thinking about you."-Morrie ( Tuesdays with Morrie)
"God doesn't know us by our labels, He knows each of us by name." --Kevin Max
"Expectations are resentment waiting to happen."
Anne Lamott in Crooked Little Heart
The reward for conformity was that everyone liked you except yourself.
Rita Maye Brown
"Anyone God uses significantly is always deeply wounded... We are, each and every one of us, insignificant people who God has called and graced to use in a significant way... On the last day, Jesus will look us over not for medals, diplomas, or honors, but for scars."
Brennan Manning in Ruthless Trust
"Since Jesus went through everything you're going through and more, learn to think and act like him. Think of your sufferings as a weaning away from the old sinful habit of always expecting to get your own way. Then you'll be able to live out your days free to pursue what God wants instead of being tyrannized by what you want."
I Peter 4:1-2 in The Message
"Everything that can be invented has been invented." --Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899.
We cannot understand the depth of the Christian doctrine of sin if we give to it only a moral connotation. To break the basic laws of justice and decency is sin indeed. Man's freedom to honor principles is the moral dimension in his nature, and sin often appears as lawlessness. But sin has its roots in something which is more than the will to break the law. The core of sin is our making ourselves the center of life, rather than accepting the holy God as the center. Lack of trust, self-love, pride - these are three ways in which Christians have expressed the real meaning of sin. But what sin does is to make the struggle with evil meaningless. When we refuse to hold our freedom in trust and reverence for God's will, there is nothing which can make the risk of life worth the pain of it. .. Daniel D. Williams (1918-1952), Interpreting Theology [1953]
"Feelings come and go, and when they come a good use can be made of them: they cannot be our regular spiritual diet." C.S. Lewis, The World's Last Night and Other Essays
"If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land." 2 Chronicles 7:14
The tragedy of life and of the world is not that men do not know God; the tragedy is that, knowing Him, they still insist on going their own way.
... William Barclay, The Revelation of John (Vol.II) [1961]
The greatest proof of Christianity for others is not how far a man can logically analyze his reasons for believing, but how far in practice he will stake his life on his belief.
... T. S. Eliot (1888-1965)
He works on us in all sorts of ways. But above all, He works on us through each other. Men are mirrors, or "carriers" of Christ to other men. Usually it is those who know Him that bring Him to others. That is why the Church, the whole body of Christians showing Him to one another, is so important. It is so easy to think that the Church has a lot of different objects - education, building, missions, holding services... The Church exists for no other purpose but to draw men into Christ, to make them little Christs. If they are not doing that, all the cathedrals, clergy, missions, sermons, even the Bible itself, are simply a waste of time. God became man for no other purpose. It is even doubtful, you know, whether the whole universe was created for any other reason. C. S. Lewis
Even if all the things that people prayed for happened - which they do not - this would not prove what Christians mean by the efficacy of prayer. For prayer is request. The essence of request, as distinct from compulsion, is that it may or may not be granted. And if an infinitely wise Being listens to the requests of finite and foolish creatures, of course He will sometimes grant and sometimes refuse them. Invariable "success" in prayer would not prove the Christian doctrine at all. It would prove something more like magic - a power in certain human beings to control, or compel, the course of nature. C. S. Lewis (1898-1963), "The Efficacy of Prayer"
It is no hard matter to adhere to God while you are in the enjoyment of His comforts and consolations; but if you would prove your fidelity to Him, you must be willing to follow Him through the paths of dryness and desertion. The truth of a friend is not known while he is receiving favours and benefits from us; but if he remain faithful to us when we treat him with coldness and neglect, it will be a proof of the sincerity of his attachment.
... Backhouse and Janson, A Guide to True Peace
Some people want to see God with their eyes as they see a cow, and to love Him as they love their cow - for the milk and cheese and profit it brings them. This is how it is with people who love God for the sake of outward wealth or inward comfort. They do not rightly love God, when they love Him for their own advantage. Indeed, I tell you the truth, any object you have in your mind, however good, will be a barrier between you and the inmost Truth.
... Meister Eckhart (1260?-1327?)
"Listen to the MUSTN'TS, child, listen to the DON'TS. Listen to the SHOULDN'TS, the IMPOSSIBLES, the WON'TS. Listen to the NEVER HAVES, then listen close to me, ANYTHING can happen, child; ANYTHING can be."-Shel Silverstein
"Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my life."-Jonathan Edwards
"Blessed is the person who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving advice -George Eliot
"Good poetry can communicate before it is understood."-T.S. Eliot
"O you whom I often and silently come where you are, that I may be with you,As I walk by your side, or sit near, or remain in the same room with you,Little you know the subtle electric fire that for your sake is playing within me."-Walt Whitman
"They were always getting lost, those two, because they had one too many senses of direction."-Marianne Wiggins, John Dollar
"To love is to accept that one might die another death before one dies one's own."-Marianne Wiggins, John Dollar
"If I had a spell of magic
I would make this enchantment for youa burgundy heart-shaped medallion
with a window that you could look through
so that when all the mirrors are angry
with your faults, and all you must doy
ou could peek through that heart-shaped medallion...and see you
from my point of view."-David Wilcox
"It's the worst kind of abandonment, when someone lets you be an asshole."-Bett Williams, Girl Walking Backwards
"Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand."-Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit
But the paint on me, Its starting to dry and its not what i want it to be, so wait on me, wait on me - sister hazel
"It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live." ~Dumbledor
"Emotional people should get mood rings" -Relient K
you said...i know that this will hurt, but if i don't break your heart then things will just get worse. when the burden seems to much to bear, remember the end will justify the pain it took to get us their. - relient k
"The harder I tried to be what he wanted me to be, the less I saw myself in his eyes." -S. Bullock, Hope Floats.
"We're all dorks. There's just those of us who know it, and those of us who don't" Unknown
It's better to be naked in the truth, than clothed in fantasy." Brennan Manning
We are all privileged but unentitled beggars at the door of God's mercy. -Brennan Manning
"In essence, there is only one thing God asks of us--that we be people for whom God is everything and for whom God is enough" ~Brennan Manning
"We are only grateful people when we can say 'thank you' to all that has brought us to the present moment." - Brennan Manning
"Prayer is listening to the small, still voice that calls you "Beloved:" Henri Nouwen
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music..."-John Adams
"Forgiveness is the name of love practiced among people who love poorly"-Henri Nouwen
"The way I see it, the men I'm with, whoever they are, it's like look, you have to accept that I like ice cream, and I know it shows up on my hips but if you can't accept that, then leave. Go away. Toodles. It is non-negotiable."-Tori Amos
"I don't know what a shrink would call me. I don't want to know."Tori Amos
"It's all right to hold a conversation, but you should let go of it now and then."-Richard Armour
"People dressed in a certain kind of clothing are never wrong. Also, they never fart."-Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace
"If equal affection cannot be,Let the more loving one be me."-W.H. Auden
"How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks."-Marcus Aurelius
"A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the one you first thought of."-Burt Bacharach
"If you don't like someone, the way he holds his spoon will make you furious; if you do like him, he can turn his plate over into your lap and you won't mind."-Irving Becker
"...she was the kind who noted birthdays down in her little book with the vigor of someone who has often been forgotten."-Aimee Bender, An Invisible Sign of my Own
"...there is something so awful, something so gross about watching someone who loves you struggle to believe what you both know, deep down, is partially a lie."-Aimee Bender, An Invisible Sign of my Own
"The covers of this book are too far apart."-Ambrose Bierce
"If the world were destroyed and you were the last man within a 1,000 mile radius, I'd swim across the ocean on a rumor that Screech from Saved by the Bell was spotted in Japan."-from Ellen
"That which we are, we are all the while teaching, not voluntarily, but involuntarily."-Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Who you are speaks so loudly I can't hear what you're saying."-Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Of all things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship."-Epicurus
"I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life."-F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
"Contentment is mostly a matter of talking yourself into believing that God will not strike you too hard for leaning in the direction of your hungers."-Charles Frazier
"The best way out is always through."-Robert Frost
"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."-Gandhi
"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."-A. M. Homes
"...And we wouldn't make the same mistakes as before. We wouldn't decide that we wanted to get older and live lives of our own. We tried that, and it didn't work."-Nick Hornby, How to Be Good
"Love, it turns out, is as undemocratic as money, so it accumulates around people who have plenty of it already: the sane, the healthy, the lovable."-Nick Hornby, How to Be Good
"When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have."-Edgar Watson Howe
"He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words."-Elbert Hubbard
"I love myself the most when I am laughing."-Zora Neale Hurston
"You have to put up with a lot of shit from people to get the good bits too."-Erica Jong, Fear of Flying
"The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely."-Carl Jung
"It was my misfortune—or salvation—to be at all times perfectly conscious of my misperceptions of reality."-Susanna Kaysen, Girl, Interrupted
"Once in a while it really hits people that they don't have to experience the world in the way they have been told to."-Alan Keightley
"The most important things are the hardest to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them—words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they're brought out. But it's more that that, isn't it? The most important things lie too close to wherever your secret heart is buried, like landmarks to a treasure your enemies would love to steal away. And you may make revelations that cost you dearly only to have people look at you in a funny way, not understanding what you've said at all, or why you thought it was so important that you almost cried when you were saying it. That's the worst, I think. When the secret stays locked within not for the want of a teller but for the want of an understanding ear."-Stephen King
"He walked by himself and all places were alike to him."-Rudyard Kipling
"I am not a smart man, particularly, but one day, at long last, I stumbled from the dark woods of my own, and my family's, and my country's past, holding in my hands these truths: that love grows from the rich loam of forgiveness; that mongrels make good dogs; that the evidence of God exists in the roundness of things. This much, at least, I've figured out. I know this much is true."-Wally Lamb
"Being offended is the natural consequence of leaving one's home. I do not like after-shave lotion, adults who roller-skate, children who speak French, or anyone who is unduly tan."-Fran Lebowitz
"Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep."-Fran Lebowitz
"I really thought that love would save us all."-John Lennon
"When I became a man, I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up."-C.S. Lewis
"When you have found your own room, be kind to those who have chosen different doors and to those who are still in the hall."-C. S Lewis
"Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed."-Walter Lippman
"When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music."-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me."-Alice Roosevelt Longworth
"Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this: that you are dreadfully like other people."-James Russell Lowell
"Until this moment I had believed forgiveness to be a special virtue, a beneficence God expected of good people. But it wasn't that at all. Forgiveness was an instinct, a desperate impulse to stay connected to the people you needed, no matter what their betrayals."-Monica Wood, My Only Story
"Nothing in my life ever seemed to fade away or take its rightful place among the pantheon of experiences that constituted my eighteen years. It was all still with me, the storage space in my brain crammed with vivid memories, packed and piled like photographs and old dresses in my grandmother's bureau. I wasn't just the madwoman in the attic—I was the attic itself. The past was all over me, all under me, all inside me."-Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation
"Sainthood emerges when you can listen to someone's tale of woe and not respond with a description of your own."-A. V. Mason
"It is so much easier to tell intimate things in the dark."-William McFee
"One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are, when you don't come home at night."-Margaret Mead
"Don't be humble. You're not that great."-Golda Meir
"One man's Voltaire is another man's Screech."-Dennis Miller
"One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries."-A.A. Milne
"Some people care too much; I think it's called love."-A. A. Milne
"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, though it may be necessary, from time to time, to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye."-Miss Piggy
"If we discovered that we had only five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to stammer that they loved them."-Christopher Morley
"The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment."-Dorothy Nevill
"The best books...are those that tell you what you know already."-George Orwell, 1984
"Happiness is a butterfly which when pursued, is always just beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you."-Nathaniel Hawthorne
suziebeauty04: i mean clearly hes holding on to the last bit left on his head but when that last bit is only on your neck i think its time to part ways
"Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favorable do nothing."-William Feather
"We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over."-James Boswell
"In the depth of winter I finally learned there was in me invincible summer."-Albert Camus
"How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone."-Coco Chanel
"Then I turned around and walked to my room and closed my door and put my head under my pillow and let the quiet put things where they are supposed to be."-Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
"Do not save your loving speeches for your friends till they are dead. Do not write them on their tombstones, speak them rather now instead."-Anna Cummins
"The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it."-Henry David Thoreau
"It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong."-Voltaire
"One great use of words is to hide our thoughts."-Voltaire
"Heaven only knows why we love it so."-Michael Cunningham, The Hours
"We don't read and write poetry because it's cute; we read and write poetry because we are members of the human race, and the human race is filled with passion."-from Dead Poets Society
"He ate and drank the precious words,His spirit grew robust;He knew no more that he was poor,Nor that his frame was dust.He danced along the dingy days,And this bequest of wingsWas but a book. What libertyA loosened spirit brings!"-Emily Dickinson
"I know there is strength in the differences between us.I know there is comfort where we overlap."-Ani DiFranco
Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friends for head. -- Chinese Proverb
Tis better to have loved and lost then to be stuck with a real looser for the rest of your entire, miserable existence.
"Prayer does not change God, it changes me." -C.S. Lewis
"Dear Mitch, If you're holding this letter, you already know. The house has been boarded up. The windows, the doors, everything. We're at the Comfort Inn. Room 112. I love you, Frank."~Old School~
Karen: Grace that blouse hurts like a hangover
Rosario: Listen lady, in my county I was a schoolteacher. Karen: Oh yeah? Well in this country, you wash my bras.
Jack: Uma Thurman-Hawke, that’s amazing.
Jack: Sarah Jessica Parker. Hide me.
Jack; Mary Kate and Ashley, it's beautiful.
"I can see it all quite clearly now life is much more simple than it seems. Just let the master show you how and learn to follow your dreams." Ed Cash"
with the way I stare you'd think I could see through a 2 x 4...And with the way I walk you'd think I'd never seen grace before." -Caedmon's Call
"i begged You for some proof for my Thomas eyes to see, a slithering staff and leprous hands and lions resting lazily. a glimpse of your back side glory and a soaked alter going ablaze, but you know i've seen so much, i explain it away"~~~caedmon's call
"as sure as seasons were made for change, our lifetimes were made for these years . . ."
"The past can be like sidewalk chalk if you'll dance and pray for rain." -Caedmon's Call
"Life...is similar to traffic or bein' President,cuz I'm not the one in control"-Caedmon's Call
"I love anonymity and I love being noticed, just the same as anybody else." ~ Ballad of San Francisco, Caedmon's Call
My ability won't get me very far, but my fragility is a testimony to who You are - Caedmon's Call
"I've been thinkin' I'd like to see your eyes open up real wide the minute that ya see me" counting crows
"This world is making me drunk on the spirits of fear, so when He says who will go, I am nowhere near. This world has nothing for me and this world has everything. All that I could want and nothing that i need." -Caedmon's call
"I'd marry you if you could dance, that's what I said. 'Cause where I'm goin' they'll be dancin everyday." -Caedmon's Call
"The heart of God loves a persevering worshipper who, though overwhelmed by many troubles, is overwhelmed even more by the beauty of God." (Matt Redman)
"A relationship with the Living God shouldn't just fade away or wear out like an old pair of shoes. It's meant to be new every morning, just like the mercy it responds to."-Matt Redman

"Let the eleventh hour quickly pass me by. I'll find You when I think I'm out of time."--Jars of Clay
"My great hope is to laugh as much as i cry, to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return "-Maya Angelou
I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands, you need to be able to throw something back; I've learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision (Maya Angelou)
The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.-Maya Angelou
"Believe what others tell you about themselves, because only they know who and what they really are" Maya Angelou
I will show you a philtre without potions, without herbs, without any witch's incantation -- if you wish to be loved, love. -- Seneca
My candle burns at both ends; It will not last the night; But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends-- It gives a lovely light! -- Edna St. Vincent Millay
And now, I am _dying_ beyond my means. -- Oscar Wilde, sipping champagne on his deathbed "It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations."--Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
Because I could not stop for Death,He kindly stopped for me.The Carriage held but just ourselvesAnd Immortality~Emily DickinsonMaybe the atheist cannot find God for the same reason a thief cannot find a policeman. ~Author Unknown
Clearly, God is a Democrat. ~Patrick CaddellSpeak in French when you can't think of the English for a thing, turn out your toes as you walk, and remember who you are!--Lewis Carroll
Sticks and stones may break your bones when there's anger to inpart. Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart. Unknown
The man who does not read books has no advantage over the man that can not read them.--Mark Twain
"Anyone who can only think of one way to spell a word obviously lacks imagination." --Mark Twain
"Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for truth." - Benjamin Disraeli
"You wouldn't care what people thought of you if you realized how seldom they do." - Anonymous
I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship. ~Louisa May Alcott
Sometimes you have to get to know someone really well to realize you're really strangers. ~The Mary Tyler Moore Show
"I have my moments, I know why people kill themselves, I know why people do drugs. I understand. I get it."-Alanis Morrissette
"My life has been one great big JOKE, a dance thats WALKED, a song thats SPOKE, I laugh so hard I almost CHOKE, when I think about myself."-Maya Angelou
"I broke something today, and decided to break something every day to remind me how fragile life is." Andy Warhol
"You can be a king or a street sweeper, but everybody dances with the Grim Reaper." Robert Alton Harris (gassed April 21, 1992)
"I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff— I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I'd do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be. I know it's crazy." ~ J. D. Salinger in The Catcher in the Rye
"Only when you are moved by a painting should you buy it." - Walter Annenberg
"Oh, this happiness is strong stuff." -J.D. Salinger
I'm not going to bed after all. Somebody around here hath murdered sleep. Good for him. J.D.Salinger, Seymour:An Introduction
God's will is not an itinerary, but an attitude. ~Andrew Dhuse
When I saw others straining toward God, I did not understand it, for though I may have had him less than they did, there was no one blocking the way between him and me, and I could reach his heart easily. It is up to him, after all, to have us, our part consists of almost solely in letting him grasp us. ~Rainer Maria Rilke, Rilke and Benvenuta: An Intimate Correspondence
God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame. ~Elizabeth Barrett Browning
when we are green, still half-created, we believe that our dreams are rights...tobias wolff
God is the perfect poet. ~Robert Browning
I don't require lust, sex, or classic beauty; I require trust, respect, and honesty. All else builds from there. -- Oscar Pederson
God, give us grace to accept with serenitythe things that cannot be changed,courage to change the thingswhich should be changed,and the wisdom to distinguishthe one from the other.Living one day at a time,Enjoying one moment at a time,Accepting hardship as a pathway to peace,Taking, as Jesus did,This sinful world as it is,Not as I would have it,Trusting that You will make all things right,If I surrender to Your will,So that I may be reasonably happy in this life,And supremely happy with You forever in the next.
Amen. Reinhold Niebuhr (1892-1971)
Only when our hearts are fixed do we find that our hands are truly free.-- G.K. Chesterton
Two heads are better than one, not because either is infallible, but because they are unlikely to go wrong in the same direction.
-- C. S. Lewis
Nothing that is really worth proving can be proven.
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson
It is unrealistic to expect people who have seen only doghouses and pigpens to appreciate architecture.
-- Morris L. Kline
One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.
-- David Campbell
When we cast our bread on the waters, we can presume that someone downstream whose face we may never see will benefit from our action.
-- Maya Angelou
A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. ~Leopold Stokowski
Every man usually has something he can do better than anyone else. Usually it is reading his own handwriting. --Unknown
I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing. --Agatha Christie (1890 - 1976)
As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them. --John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Once you can accept the universe as being something expanding into an infinite nothing which is something, wearing stripes with plaid is easy."
Albert Einstein quotes (German born American physicist who developed the special and general theories of relativity. )
All I wanted was to control you, myself and everything else.
"I was born the day you kissed me, and i died inside the night you left me, but oh how i lived while you loved me" Rascal Flatts
I'm gonna stop lookin back and start movin on and learn how to face my fears, love wih all of my heart and make my mark i wanna leave somethin here...*Rascal Flatts*
"we'll have plenty of time for ALL THAT when my dress is white and your suit is black" ~rascal flatts"
This one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before."Philippians 3:13
Every time you're gone....I wish that you'd come back.[dashboard confessional]
Who's cruel idea was it to put an "s" in the word lisp?
"Do not be fashioned according to this age.." Romans 12:2
* And she dreams she's dancing Around and around without any cares And her very first love is holding her close And a soft wind is blowing her hair* -Rascal Flatts-
would it be too much pressure if i saidi wanted you to change my life?
"That I would be good, whether with or without you...." Alanis Morissette
"you look at me with those eyes,and tell me all your pretty lies"
that i would be loved even when i numb myself. that i would be good even when i am overwhelmed. that i would be loved even when i was fuming. that i would be good even if i was clingy. that i would be good even if i lost sanity. - Alanis.
what part of our history's reinvented and under rug swept?what part of your memory is selective and tends to forget?-alanis
Say a prayer, pray for the other onesThere's a world outside your window And its a world of dreaded fearWere the only water flowing is a bitter sting of tear~band aid~
*soon i'll grow up and i won't even flinch at your name* alanis
to remember me, standing still in your past. Floating fast like a hummingbird.~Wilco~

Nobody can ever take a friend's place... nobody. >>> Maya Angelo
Most people are living in houses made of mirrors and they think they are looking out
there are people who, instead of listening to what is being said to them, are already listening to what they are going to say themselves -albert guinon
either i've been missing something or nothing has been going on -karen elizabeth gordon
the tooth fairy teaches children that they can sell body parts for money -david richerby
"Just an old friend coming over now to visit you, and thats what I've become. I let myself in though I know I'm not supposed to, but I never know when I'm done" ~Third Eye Blind
"To look life in the face and know it for what it is...to know it and love it for what it is, and then...to put it away. Always the years between us...always the years...always the love...always the hours." - 'Virginia Woolf' in "The Hours"
"I think that part of being human is being alone. And being lonely. I think one of the stresses on a lot of our friendships is that we require the people we love to take away that loneliness. And they really can't. And so, when we still feel lonely, even in the company of people we love, we become angry with them because they don't do what we think they're supposed to. Which is really something that they can't do for us." Rich Mullins-from an unpublished source

you cannot find true love where it does not exist...nor can you hide it where it does
The only time we waste is the time spent thinking we are alone.-Mitch Albom
"Let go. it makes life so much better if we embrace whatever it may be and then let it go". ~Morrie, Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
People say they "find" love, as if it were an object hidden by a rock. But love takes many forms, and it is never the same for any man or woman. What people find then is a certain love. ~ Mitch Albom
"...what it all comes down to is, what would it be like to be God Almighty, and to inspire those prophets to write all those great books, and Moses to write those books - and then to have to become a little boy and endure Hebrew school, and listen to some rabbi rattle on about something that you wrote down before he was ever born?" -from 20: The Countdown Magazine tribute special, 18 November 1997
"And Jesus says, "Here, look, fellas. I'll call the shots here. I may be dumb, but I am God. And I'll tell you what else, if you wanna come into My kingdom, you'll come in like one of these or you won't come in at all."" -from a concert in Anderson, Indiana, 16 November 1995
I want the Concentration, the ROMANCE and the Words all glued, fused and glowing all together. I have no time to waste on anymore promises (Virginia Woolf)
Arrange whatever pieces come your way-Virginia Woolf
"We insist, it would seem, on living." - Virginia Woolf"Life; London; this moment in June." -- Virginia Woolf (Mrs. Dalloway)
“and then, from the same pattern, God crafted another person, a perfect match. And he said, someday they will meet and everyone will know they belong together.”

"Listen as the wind blowsfrom across the great divideForces trapped in yearningmemories trapped in timeThe night is my companionand solitude my guidewould I spend forever hereand not be satisfied."Sarah McLachlan
". . .my dreams are not the issue here for they, the hammer holds"--Bebo Norman
Those things, those people consume me right now; because in their simplicity and in their steadfastness, they remind me of the God that never changes.-Bebo
- A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecesseboary. - Thomas Carruthers
"How far that little candle throws its beams!/So shines a good deed in a very weary world."-William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
- Real peace comes from knowing the God who has your future in his hands.
- Regardless of how good my circumstances may be, there are inevitably days when I wake up sad or lonely or empty for reasons that I don't really understand. [Break Me Through] was written on one of those days. It's basically a prayer to the Giver of peace to break me through my loneliness. – Bebo Norman
The story of your life is the story of the long and brutal assault on your heart by the one who knows what you could be and fears it. - John Eldredge
Hope is the music of the future. Faith is the courage to dance to it."-Unknown
I believe in Christ as I believe in the rising sun; not that I can see it, but that by it I can see everything. -C.S. Lewis
Be not deceived, Wormwood, our cause is never more in jeopardy than when a human, no longer desiring but still intending to do Our Enemys will, looks round upon a universe in which every trace of Him seems to have vanished, and asks why he has been forsaken, and still obeys. – C.S. Lewis, Screwtape letters
I want to get inside the you you’re hiding from. – Jars of Clay
I started learning the piano around eighth grade as a part of a scheme to find my identity (which was part of a scheme to pick up chicks). – Andrew Peterson
I don't want to be righteous because I feel bad about being bad. I want to be righteous because I understand what grace is, and grace is driving me toward righteousness - not guilt. -Bebo Norman
"for those of you that dont habla espanol, el nino is spanish for "the nino"!" - Chris Farley
"He was one green marachino cherry short of a fruitcake" - Brain
- Remember this: God may not do what you want, but His will do what is right and best. He’s the father of forward motion. Trust him. He will get you home. And the trials of the trip will be lost in the joys of the feast. ~ Max Lucado
- Resentment is the cocaine of the emotions…Hatred is the rabid dog that turns on its owner. Revenge is the raging fire that consumes the arsonist. Bitterness is that trap that snares the hunter. And mercy is the choice that set us all free. – Max Lucado
And when I leave I wanna go out like Elijah/ with a whirlwind to fuel my chariot of fire/ and when I look back on the stars/ it’ll be like a candlelight in Central Park/ and it won’t break my heart to say goodbye ~ “Elijah” Rich Mullins
- An angel is someone you feel like you’ve known forever even though you’ve just met
- A part of you has grown in me, together forever we shall be, never apart, maybe in the distance, but not in the heart. -Ah, yes, divorce......., from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man's genitals through his wallet.-Robin Williams
- Another scar from fighting the Truth has left me a stranger to my need. – Michael W. Smith
- And I didn’t want to leave her, and I didn’t want to treat her like the story of my life. – Bebo Norman, Picture of Things
- Always live in the precious present
- A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. ~ Robert Frost
- And every single heart that I have held – In my hands, my clumsy hands – I fumbled them around until they fell – It’s much safer ground – Just keeping to myself – But I still dream of tomorrow – Where the past will not be in my way – Passion lives another day – And I still dream of tomorrow – Where perhaps she’ll wait for me. – Bebo Norman, Perhaps She’ll Wait For Me
- A coincidence is when God chooses to remain anonymous.
"Only the shallow know themselves"--Oscar Wilde
*I'm Easier To get Into Than Community College*
It is through Art, and through Art only, that we can realize our perfection.Oscar Wilde
A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally. Oscar Wilde
"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation." - Oscar Wilde

Wait for me to move out west
Its ok if you dont
I hope you know
you're my favorite thing
about the west coast
I wish I stayed
I hope you wait
So here I am
Counting down the days
Till California Comes
"our huffing and puffing to impress God, our scrambling for brownie points, our thrashing about trying to fix ourselves while hiding our pettiness and wallowing in guilt are nauseating to God and are a flat denial of the gospel of grace."-brennan manning
"My goodness, these folks don't know how to love--thats why they love so easily." D.H. Lawrence
"and though I may fall short when on the world's scale I've been weighed, it's an honor just to know that in Your image I've been made"-EverybodyDuck
Gibbs184 Jesus's death, friends, family, having more than enough, people who genuinely care, candy, books, the outdoors, aaaannndd kool-aid
Sirius023: whenever you give someone anything emotional, you'll never get it back
Sirius023: that's kind of the risk you take
Sirius023: the whole horrid part of caring or loving anyone is losing yourself
Sirius023: that's why it's very very scary to feel deeply towards people
suziebeauty04: and hes way too ugly to be such a jerk
"Tomorrow I start in a new direction
I know I've been half-asleep
I'm never doing that again
I look straight at what's coming ahead
and soon it's going to change in a new direction."
-Guster-
she cannot see the ocean for the trees that block the way. she cannot see forever 'cause she can't see past today. she's driving home so empty from another one night stand with a guy who doesn't care but just wants to feel like a man. if only falling in love was as easy as making it.
cool hand Luke
"Loyalty to the country always, loyalty to the government when it deserves it" Mark Twain
"i know you don’t talk much but your such a good talker and i know we should take a walk but your such a fast walker " Wilco
"No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth." -Robert Southy
Be very slow in choosing a friend and even slower in letting them go
The first duty of love - is to listen.
"What we got here is...failure to communicate. Some men you just can't reach." - Cool Hand Luke
Silence is not protection enough." -A.A. Milne
The happiness is the light on the water. The water is cold and dark and deep." -William Maxwell
"All my lies are always wishes."-Wilco
Why should I be hypnotized by someone else's lies." -Dave Matthews Crazy (Captain of my Ship)
"People change and forget to tell each other." -Lillian Hellman
"Saw you last night, dance by the light of the moon, stars in your eyes, free from the life that you knew." -Ben Folds Five
"I want a good life with a nose for things, a fresh wind and bright sky to enjoy my suffering, a hole without a key if I break my tongue speaking of tomorrow how it will ever come, all my lies are always wishes." ( Wilco )
Have you ever wondered which hurts the most; saying something and wishing you had not,or saying nothing and wishing you had?
Nobody is perfect until you fall in love with them.
"and when I go to sleep at night I hear someone else's song, sang by some Canandians and thousands sing along."
"Thy fate is the common fate of all, into each life some rain must fall." -Longfellow
"Be still sad heart and cease repining, behind the clouds the sun is shining." -Longfellow
"I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart." -Anne Frank
"Nothing the spoils the taste of peanut butter like unrequited love." -Charlie Brown
"Standing here, the old man said to me, 'Long before these crowded streets, here stood my dreaming tree.' Below it he would sit, for hours at a time. Now progress takes away what forever took to find. The dreaming tree has died." -Dave Matthews
"I am real green, and in the process of becoming a lighter shade of green." -Adam Pascal
Hold a friend's hand through times of trial, let them find love through a hug and a smile. but also know when it is time to let go, for each and every one of us must learn to grow.
"I could do without many things with no hardship.. you are not one of them." -Ashleigh Brilliant
"Because we know that inside each one of those identical boxes, with its Dodge parked out front and its white bread on the table and its TV set glowing blue in the falling dusk, there were people with stories, there were families bound together in the pain and the struggle of love.
NARRATOR: There where moments that made us cry with laughter, and there were moments, like that one, of sorrow and wonder." The Wonder Years
"Once you see into someone’s soul, you're attached forever."
"Loving, knowing that you are going to get hurt is like living knowing that you are going to die. But not loving so you don't get hurt is like killing yourself before you die."
NARRATOR: In all the years I spent growing up at my parents' house, I don't think I ever heard them use the word 'relationship'. Not once. 'Indigestion', 'taxes', 'damn'... these were words you heard a lot. The Wonder Years
NARRATOR: I know it sounds strange - but that was the first time... I'd ever seen my parents alone together. I guess sometimes the ground can shift beneath your feet. Sometimes your footing slips - you stumble. And Sometimes, you grab what's closest to you, and hold on as tight as you can. The Wonder Years
all i can see
is black and white
and white and pink
with blades of blue
that lay between
the words i think
on a page
i was meaning
to send to you
i couldn't tell
if it would
bring my heart
the way i wanted
when i started
writing this letter to you
but if i could
you know i would
just hold your hand
and you'd understand
.wilco.
Growing up is never easy. You hold on to things that were. You wonder what's to come. I think we knew it was time to let go of what had been, and look ahead to what would be. Other days. New days. Days to come. The thing is, we didn't have to hate each other for getting older. We just had to forgive ourselves. for growing up.~The Wonder Years
God forbid you be 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
I'm recording our history now on the bedroom wall, and when we leave the landlord will come and paint over it all. Ani Difranco
We have to be able to criticize what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way. Ani Difranco
"some days the line I walk turns out to be straight. Other days the line turns to deviate." Ani
"I want somebody who's not afraid of me or anyone else, in other words I want somebody who is not afraid of themselves" Ani
"It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you."-Toni Morrison, Sula
"You belong among the wildflowers, you belong in a boat out at sea, you belong with your love on your arm, you belong somewhere you feel free." -Tom Petty
"Though we adore men individually, I agree that as a group they're rather stupid." -Mary Poppins
"A girl should keep her heart within her own power." -T.S. Eliot
"You'll say it's really good to see you. You'll say you missed me horribly. You'll say let me carry that. Give that to me. And you will take the heavy stuff and you will drive the car. And i'll look out the window and makes jokes, about the way things are." -Ani Difranco
"People really do love each other. They just get confused sometimes and forget how to let each other know."
"Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so." - David Grayson
“But the thing that scared me most, was when my enemy came close; And I saw that his face looked just like mine.” - Bob Dylan
I remember a place...a town, a house like a lot of other houses....a yard like a lot of other yards...a street like a lot of other streets. And the thing is....after all these years, I still look back...with wonder. Wonder Years
"I think you as lazy as white paint on our wall." ani
"I always wanted to be commander in chief of my one woman army." Ani
"I do it for the joy it brings, cause I'm a joyful girl. Cause the world owes us nothing, we owe each other the world." Ani
They say men are children, but sometimes children are men; maybe that's where the confusion lies... All I knew was that night the world seemed suddenly very big and I felt very small, so I did what I could...... 1972 was a crazy time. Kids played football, drove cars, went to school, celebrated life; while soldiers, heroes, their brothers struggled to find their way home from war; and young boys watched and grew wiser in their dreams. Wonder Years
The friends who grew up with you deserve a special respect. The ones who stuck by you shoulder to shoulder, in a time where nothing was certain, all life lay ahead, and every road led home. Wonder Years
"Growing up it was just me and my mom against the world and all my sympathies were with her when I was a little girl. Now I've seen both my parents play out the hands that they were dealt and as each year goes by I know more about how my father must have felt. I just want you to understand that I know what all the fighting was for and baby I just want you to understand that I'm not angry anymore. No I'm not angry anymore." ani
All our young lives we search for someone to love. Someone who makes us complete. We chose partners and change partners. We dance to a song of heartbreak and hope all the while, wondering if somewhere and somehow, there is someone searching for us. -Wonder Years
"i didn't lose my job. it's not like, 'whoops, where'd my job go?"" -American beauty
"This bridge will only take you half way there To those mysterious lands you long to see...The last few steps you'll have to take alone."-Shel Silverstein
233. "We keep passing unseen through little moment s of other people's lives." -Robert M. Pirsig
"We act empty and innocent but we are fueled by distortions of lives led in discontent trading misfortunes, cause faith is one thing that is hard to deliver, it feels funny being free." -Amy Ray
"I want to be alone." -Greta Garbo
"Surprised by joy." -C.S. Lewis
"Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough" -William Saroyah
"I don't know what it is about you that closes and opens, only something in me understands the voice in your eyes is deeper than all roses." -E.E. Cummings
"I'll probably stay lucky if my tongue will stay tied so I won't betray the things that I hide. There's not enough years underneath this belt for me to admit the way that I felt." -Seven Mary Three
"He gave me the chance to love him as I would have like to be loved." -Emily Benedekl
"I'm not paranoid, but I know you all think I am."
"When I buy a book, I always read the last page first. That way, in case I die before I finish, I know how it ends. That, my friend, is the dark side." -When Harry Met Sally
"Lately it's occurred to me what a long strange trip it's been." -The Grateful Dead
"We will never be the same." -Billy Corgan
"Almost only counts in horse shoes and hand grenades."
"Are you more amazed at how things change/ or how they stay the same/ and do you sit here on this porch and wonder/ how time flies/ or does it seem to barely creep along/ with 75 Septembers come and gone." -Cheryl Wheeler
"If we could decide who we love it would be much simpler but less magical." -South Park
"I'll trade the moon for the sun, but this feeling for no one." -Jump, Little Children
"How I wish, how I wish you were here, we're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl, year after year. Running over the same old ground. What have we found? The same old fears, wish you were here." -Pink Floyd
"May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields, and until we meet again, may God hold you in the palm of his hand." -Irish blessing
"The story of life is quicker than the eye, the story of love is hello and goodbye, until we meet again." -Jimi Hendrix
"Sometimes it seems like we're all living in some kind of prison, and the crime is how much we hate ourselves. It's good to get really dressed up once in a while and admit the truth-that when you look closely, people are so strange and so complicated that they're actually beautiful, possibly even me." -My So-Called Life
. "who are you, little i(five or six years old)peering from some highwindow; at the goldof November sunset(and feeling: that if dayhas to become nightthis is a beautiful way) -E.E Cummings
. "How we love to love things for other people; how we love to have other people love things through our eyes." -John Irving (The Cider House Rules)
"I need you. I don't know why but every now and then in my life, for no reason at all, I need you." -Sarah from Labyrinth
"Damn the man. Save the empire." -Mark Empire Records
"Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it." -Ferris Bueller
"Some people can't believe in themselves until someone else believes in them first." -Good Will Hunting
"We're all pretty bizarre. Some of us are just better at showing it." -The Breakfast Club
"Being with you is like walking on a very clear morning... definitely the sensation of belonging there." -E.B. White
"Once you are real you can't be ugly except to people who don't understand." -The Velveteen Rabbit
"If I leave tomorrow, would you still remember me? Well, I must be traveling on now, there's so many places I have to see." -Lynyrd Skynyrd
. "Who throws a shoe? I mean really!"-Austin Powers
"Would it be so bad if I could turn you on?" -Merril Bainbridge
"It's something unpredictable, but in the end it's right. I hope you have the time of your life." -Green Day
"A poem begins with a lump in the throat." -Robert Frost
"Well I woke up in mid-afternoon cause that's when it all hurts the most. I dream I never know anyone at the party, and I'm always the host. If dreams are like movies then memories are films about ghosts. You can never escape you can only move south down the coast." -Counting Crows

"... Oh, take your time, don't live too fast, troubles will come and they will pass.. Don't worry, you'll find yourself, follow your heart and nothing else. Be a simple kind of man, something you love and understand." Lynyrd Skynyrd.
"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm." -Ralph Waldo Emerson
"...suddenly a new feeling washes over me-a feeling at once destructive, romantic, and grand-like falling into a swimming pool dressed in a tuxedo. I have this feeling no room is every really quiet; this feeling that even in the quietest, emptiest, and most uneventful of rooms there is always an event of profound importance occurring. This event is Time itself, foaming, raging, and boiling like a river, roaring through this room and through all rooms-Time flowing through the beds, gushing from the mini-bars and churning from the mirrors and Time, with it's grand unfightable sweep, taking me along with it." -Douglas Coupland
"Only for a moment; but it was enough." -Virginia Woolf
"I am a poster girl with no poster, I am 32 flavors and then some." -Ani Difranco
"I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each other's dreams, we can be together all the time." -Calvin and Hobbes
"Time goes by so fast, people go in and out of your life. You must never miss the opportunity to tell these people how much they mean to you." –Cheers
"Did I ask too much? More than a lot? You gave me nothing now it's all I've got." -U2
"And Pooh gave Christopher Robin the biggest pooh hug he could give because he knew that goodbyes were not far away." -A.A. Milne
"Be excellent to each other." -Bill and Ted
"Friendship, said Pooh, is a very comforting thing." -A.A. Milne
"Keep a bottle handy so that you can send a letter in the event that you are ever surrounded by water." -Winnie the Pooh
"We spend most of our time talking about nothing, but I just want to let you know that all of these nothings have meant so much more to me than so many somethings." -You've Got Mail "It's weird...you know the end of something great is coming, but you want to hold on, just for one more second, just so it can hurt a little more."
"Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love *is* everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it...it really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk everything, you risk even more." -Erica Jong
"There are good days and there are bad days. And the good days are few and far between. But the good days are so good that they outweigh the bad ones. So keep your head up. There are good days to come." -Allison Schooling
"Night swimming, remembering that night. September's coming soon, I'm pining for the moon." -Michael Stipe
"Listen girls. We are gonna walk in there and strut our shit like everything is peachy keen-peachy fucking keen." –Jawbreaker
"There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want." -Calvin and Hobbes
"We wrote 40 songs and then we wrote this one." -Dave Matthews
"Stupid TV. Be more funny." -Homer Simpson
"I can't begin to tell you how much you mean to me. My world would end if ever we were through. I can't begin to tell you how happy I would be if I could speak my mind like others do. I make such pretty speeches whenever we're apart, but when you're near the words I choose refuse to leave my heart. So take the sweetest phrases the world has ever known and make believe I've said them all to you." -Bing Crosby
"Dear God, don't make me fall in love and want to do disgusting things." -Mermaids
"I have learned the dashing white-knight who was supposed to sweep me off my feet...has apparently gotten lost in the forest."
"Love tastes like mint ice cream and sweet teasoft and moistvaguely sweet and mostly warmbut most of all, it tastes like home." -Sara Ansell (FS! Lit Magazine)
"Kiss me and you will see how important I am." -Sylvia Plath
"Give me a whisper, give me a sigh. Give me a kiss before you tell me goodbye; and please remember that I never lied. and please remember how I felt inside."
"Too many of us stay walled in because we are afraid of being hurt. We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care as much or not at all." -Eleanor Roosevelt
"Why can't we just get together all the people in the world that we really like? And then just stay together? I guess that wouldn't work though. Someone would leave. Somebody always leaves. And then we'd have to say goodbye. I hate goodbyes. I know what I need. I need more hellos."
"Love and stoplights can be cruel." -Sesame Street
"You think I only think about you when we're both in the same room." -Barenaked Ladies
"I hate the way you talk to me and the way you cut your hair. I hate the way you drive your car. I hate it when you stare. I hate your big dumb combat boots and the way you read my mind. I hate you so much it makes me sick. It even makes me rhyme. I hate the way you're always right, I hate it when you lie. I hate it when you make me laugh; even worse when you make me cry. I hate it when you're not around and the fact that you didn't call. But mostly I hate the way I don't hate you-not even close, not even a little bit, not even at all." -10 Things I Hate About You
"I never wanted to hold you back, I just wanted to hold on." -Blink 182
When we are in love, we often doubt that which we most believe."
. "The best thing in life to hold on to is each other." -Audrey Hepburn
"If you pressure me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than it was because he was he and I was I."
"We're fashioning a very long poking device." -Joey
I'd like to dream my troubles all away
On a bed of California stars
Jump up from my start and make another day
Underneath my California stars
They hang like grapes on vines that shine
And warm the lover's glass like friendly wine
So, I'd give this world
just to dream a dream with you
On our bed of California stars My awesome Friend Rupa :)
“Fuck it Dude, let’s go bowling!” –Walter Sobcheck from The Big Lebowski
Regrets are as personal as fingerprints" - Margaret C. Banning

We do not remember days, we remember moments.--Casare Pavese
The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return -Moulin Rouge
-"Man who walks through airport turnstile sideways is going to Bangkok."
Some mornings it just doesn't seem worth it to gnaw through the leather straps.-- Emo PhillipsCommon sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen. -Albert Einstein You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do. -Henry Ford
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. -William James
Imagination is more important than knowledge. -Albert Einstein
Watch me not care. -Dilbert
I know I'm an acquired taste: I'm anchovies. And not everyone wants those hairy little things. If I was potato chips, I could go more places. -Tori Amos
Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses. -George Washington Carver
You can't comfort the afflicted without afflicting the comfortable. -Princess Diana of Wales'
'I can't take HIS money... I can't print MY OWN money... I have to work for money, why don’t I just lay down and die?"-Homer Simpson
"Maybe, just once, someone will call me 'sir' without adding, "you'remaking a scene.'"-- Homer Simpson
Don't squat with your spurs on. "Lisa, if you don't like your job you don't strike. You just go in everyday and do it real half-assed. That's the American way."-- Homer Simpson
How did it feel to walk across the bridge as it burned?

beautiful people are never interesting.
It's a narrow margin, just room enough for regret.
'the biggest human temptation to settle for in life is too little." Thomas Merton.
the sky is falling -chicken little
"I always have a quote for everything. It saves original thinking." -- Lord Peter Wimsey
"Sarcasm is the safe alternative to expressing anger." --Richard North Patterson

"Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't." --Erica Jong

"Sometimes the only way you can feel good about yourself is by making someone else look bad. And I'm tired of making other people feel good about themselves." --Homer Simpson
Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would be doing if he were alive today? (1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War. (2) Advising the President. (3) Desperately clawing at the inside of his coffin. --David Letterman
"The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'." --unknown
Ralph Waldo Emerson said 'I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
Simplify, simplify, simplify! -Henry David Thoreau
Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself. ~James Stephen
"In commanding us to glorify Him, God is inviting us to enjoy Him." C. S. Lewis
"A lament is a statement of faith written backwards." Gary Brandenburg
"Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God. And only he who sees takes off his shoes." Elizabeth Barrett Browning
"God does not cause us to sin, but He leads us on paths that expose our sin." Anne Murchison
"Truth is incontrovertible. Panic may resent it; ignorance may deride it; malice may distort it; but there it is." Winston Churchill
"There is nothing instant or automatic in spiritual development." Alan Jones.
"Pain won't kill you, but running from it might." Anonymous
"Faith on its way to maturity moves from "duty to delight". Walter Brueggermann
"We need the sacred fire to consume the dross. Let us fly to our God, He is a consuming fire; He will not consume our spirit, but our sins." Charles Spurgeon
"Somehow being empty allows us to make others rich." John Eldredge


"You're a real friend." he said."Not Like Some," said he. AA Milne
"Never try to make your experience a principle for others, but allow God to be as creative and original with others as He is with you." Oswald Chambers
"We are not meant to be seen as God's perfect, bright-shining examples, but to be seen as the everyday essence of ordinary life exhibiting the miracle of His grace." Oswald Chambers
"If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this." C. S. Lewis
"To consider persons and events and situations only in the light of their effect upon myself is to live on the doorstep of hell." Thomas Merton

"Sorrow is one of the biggest facts in life, and there is no use in saying it should not be. Sin, sorrow, and suffering are, and it is not for us to say that God has made a mistake in allowing them." Oswald Chambers
“What did you do?”“Nothing.”“The best thing,” said Owl wisely.-A.A. Milne; The House at Pooh Corner
"Notice the kind of people that God brings around you, and you will be humiliated once you realize that this is actually His way of revealing to you the kind of person you have been to Him." Oswald Chambers
"Misery should always place itself right in the face of mercy." Charles Spurgeon
"There are no crown-wearers in heaven that were not cross-bearers here below." Charles Spurgeon

"As a disclaimer to everything I've ever said or everything I ever will say, when it's all said and done we'll only have two things left to say: One is 'Forgive me' and the other is 'Thank you.'" Rich Mullins
When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.
Good conversation is as stimulating as black coffee... and just as hard to sleep after.
No one can comprehend what goes on under the sun. Despite his efforts to search it out, man cannot discover its meaning. Even if a wise man claims he knows, he cannot really comprehend it. Ecclesiastes 8:17
Deep calls to deep in the roar of your waterfalls; all your waves and breakers have swept over me. -Psalms 42:7
Nothing begins, and nothing ends,That is not paid with moan;For we are born in others' painAnd perish in our own.--Francis Thompson
Necessity is the mother of Invention. -Cicero
Be curious, not judgmental. -Walt Whitman
Never explain--your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.--Elbert Hubbard
purpose of education is to calm the disturbed and disturb the calm.
False face cannot hide what false heart doth know.--William Shakespeare
The course of true love never did run smooth.---William Shakespeare
"I can always be distracted by love, but eventually I get horny for my creativity." - - Gilda Radner
Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which you're not really interested in order to get where you're going. -Christopher Darlington Morley
The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.Emily Dickinson

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between the lightning and the lightning bug." Mark Twain
People who live in steel houses should pull down the lightning. Hatred bounces. Most people are perfectly afraid of silence. Sleep is the mother of courage. Only as long as we can laugh at ourselves are we nobody else. A poet is a penguin--his wings are to swim with. An intelligent person fights for lost causes, realizing that others are merely effects." E.E. Cummings
Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent." Carl Jung
I do not take drugs. I am drugs." Salvador Dali
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul." Emily Dickinson
Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful. William Morris
Each one of us is a brain and an athlete and a basketcase and a princess and a criminal. Sincerely yours, The Breakfast Club
"believe in lovers walking side by side. I believe that someday we'll be satisfied. I believe the angels listen, God hears us pray. And I believe in a beautiful day. Chris Isaak
"The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them." -Thomas Merton
the truth that many people never understand, until it's too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt (Thomas Merton)
my scream got lost in a paper cup.......Tori Amos
I don't think two people could have been happier than we have been.
"Strangers are exciting, the mystery never ends, But theres nothing like seeing your history in the faces of your friends" Ani D.
it is fun to be in the same decade with you -franklin d. roosevelt
it is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. the sane are usually attracted by other things than power -david brin
take everything you like seriously, except yourselves -rudyard kipling
a little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation -sakii
I have a fantasy where ted turner is elected president but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power -arthur c. clarke
i never forget a face, but in your case i'll be glad to make an exception -groucho marx
i can win an argument on any topic, against any opponent. people know this, and steer clear of me at parties. often, as a sign of their great respect, they don't even invite me -dave barry
the graveyards are full of indispensable men
-charles de gaulle
"An alcoholic is someone you don't like who drinks as much as you do." -- Dylan Thomas children are all foreigners -ralph waldo emerson "Music is the 5th gospel." -- Martin Luther
"How do you make somebody love you without affecting free will?" -- Bruce Nolan (Jim Carrey) "Welcome to my world, son. If you come up with an answer to that one, you let me know." -- God (Morgan Freeman)
one can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing -oscar wilde "Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months." -- Oscar Wilde
all things are difficult before they are easy -dr. thomas fuller
"The fact is, most putts don't drop, most beef is tough, most children grow up to be just people, most successful marriages require a high degree of mutual toleration, most jobs are more often dull than otherwise. Life is like an old time journey...delays, side tracks, smoke, dust, cinders and jolts, interspersed only occasionally by beautiful vistas, and thrilling bursts of speed. The trick is to thank the Lord for letting you have the ride." -- Gordon B. Hinkley
i dote on his very absence -william shakespeare
if all the cars in the united states were placed end to end, it would probably be labor day weekend -doug larson
love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence -h. l. mencken
I am a work in progress - dressed in the fabric of a world unfolding - offering me intricate patterns and questions - rhythms that never come clean - and strengths that you still haven't seen ~Ani Difranco~~
It';s a narrow margin just room enough for regret
is your dad a terrorist cause your the BOMB"If you ever looked at me once with what I know is in you, I would be your slave."-Wuthering Heights
"It is never too late to be what you might have been" George Eliot
"Some people have a large circle of friends while others only have friends they like."
"god, i love to turn my little blue world upside down." tori amos"
i put too much on the table, now i've got too much at stake" ani difranco
"his head is getting really small and his belly is getting really big, he's equaling out.
"The Search:It wouldn't take me longto tell you how to find me
"I've got enough guilt to start my own religion"~ Tori Amos
"killer boots man"- lloyd christmas
well, i've been listening to my gut since i was 14 years old, and frankly speaking, i've come to the conclusion that my guts have shit for brains -high fidelity
there's an old saying in tennessee -- i know it's in texas, probably in tennessee...that says, fool me once, shame on...shame on you. fool me...you can't get fooled again -george w. bush
"I know nobody likes me. Why do we have to have a holiday season to emphasize it?" -Charlie Brown
Charlie Brown to the kite-eating tree: "Here, take it. It's been a long winter and I'm very tender-hearted."
I've developed a new philosophy....i only dread one day at a time ~charlie brown
"I remember once, back about five years ago, I said the right thing." -- Charlie Brown (Charles M. Schulz)."pretty faces make me nervous" -charlie brown
Be Silly, Be honest, Be kind.-Ralph Waldo Emerson-
I was just wondering if you'd come along to hold up my head when my head won't hold on-I'll do the same if the same is what you want.-dmb-
Are not all lifelong friendships born at the moment when at last you meet another person who has some inkling ( but faint and uncertain at best ) of that something which you were born desiring? " - CS Lewis
We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition, when infinite joy is offered us...we are far too easily pleased CS Lewis
"Hell is the only place outside of Heaven, where we can be safe from the dangers of love."CS Lewis
the four lovesWe have failed to practice ourselves the kind of behavior we expect from other people.~ C.S. Lewis
I'll be better when I'm older. - Goo Goo Dolls
"ItsnotWritng.ItsTyping." -Truman Capote
"Drink to me." Pablo Picasso's last words
" I can eat pudding and accuse you of racism at the same time"Al Sharpton
when everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong-- or absolutely right -albert guinon
Oh look at how she listens, and she says nothing of what she thinks. She just goes stumbling through her memories, staring out onto grey street.But all the colors mix together to grey and it breaks her heart."-Dave Mattews
Sarah Sloane: "And you're not gay!"Ned Flanders: "I won't even eat vegetables more than two inches long."
When we love, we always have something to say. - Mary Wortly Montagu
It is often easier to hide something than to hide the fact that you are hiding something. - G. C. Lichtenberg
Majorities mean nothing: During the Flood only one man knew enough to get out of the rain.sometimes i lie awake at night, and i ask,
"where have i gone wrong?" then a voice says to me, "this is going to take more than one night." -charles m. schulz
we walked and talked of things i could not show her (Counting Crows - Dave)
All my innocence is wasted on the dead and dreaming-Bob Dylan
the skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think -edwin schlossberg
"The price of a memory is the memory of the sorrow it brings..." -Counting Crows...
"I'm recording our history now on the bredroom wall, and when we leave the landlord will come and paint over it all..." -Ani DiFranco
*memory, is a way of holding onto the things u love, the things u are, the things u never want to lose -the wonder years
"Sometimes you have to let go to keep holding on." -The Wonder Years
help me to understand myself. edgar allen poe
"What we see, And what we seem, A dream within a dream" - Edgar Allen Poe
the tru genius shudders at incompleteness.. and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be. -Edgar Allen Poe
"The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid." -Richard Braunstein
"A woman drove me to drink and I didn't even have the decency to thank her." W.C. Fields there's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place to put it all -robert orben
dan, i'm in love with you -lauren p.
"Everything you've ever done wrong is the reason I am drunk." - Counting Crows
"I can't die until the government finds a safe place to bury my liver." Phil Harris
everyone asks. why do you love him its okay i dont want them to understand because then they would love you too
To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and to endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded. Ralph Waldo Emerson
(i do not know what it is about you that closes and opens;only something in me understands the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses)nobody,not even the rain,has such small hands-e.e. cummings From E.E. Cummings poem Since "Feeling is First"
..."We are for each other: then laugh, leaning back in my arms for life's not a paragraph, and death I think is no parenthesis."
i love to go to the market, to look at all the things i can do without- socrates
"It's not my style to lay it on the line but you don't leave me with the choice this time." (Gavin DeGraw)"When youre not here, love is hard to pretend" anon.
"I believe what I believe is what makes me what I am. I did not make it, no it is making me. It is the very truth of God, not the invention of any man" - Rich Mullins.
"And with these our hells and our heavens, so few inches apart, we must be awfully small, and not as strong as we think we are..." Rich Mullins
"...This life has taught me how we're mended and how we're torn ..How it's ok to be lonely as long as you're free .." Rich Mullins
"I will never let schooling get in the way of my education" Mark Twain
"Promise you won't ever forget me. Never, not even when I am a hundred..."---Winnie the Pooh
"This too shall pass""
Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never." -Charles Caleb Colton
What luck for rulers that men do not think. -Adolf Hitler
A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy? -Albert Einstein
I want to know God's thoughts… the rest are mere details. -Albert Einstein
You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war. -Albert Einstein
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. -Albert Einstein
I have a perfect cure for a sore throat. Cut it. -Alfred Hitchcock
Dogs feel very strongly that they should always go with you in the car, in case the need should arise for them to bark violently at nothing right in your ear. -Dave Barry
What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death. -Dave Barry
Boy, they were big on crematoriums, weren't they? -George Bush, while visiting Auschwitz, Sept 1989
A five year old could understand this. Fetch me a five year old. -Groucho Marx
"I am finding that vulnerability gives me great strength, because you're not hiding anymore." -Tori Amos
"Now don't go puttin' none o' that stuff on my sled, Clark. You know that metal plate in my head?"I had to have it replaced, because every time Catherine revved up the microwave, I'd piss my pants and forget who I was for a half hour or so!"People say to me, he never made you happy. And I say, but I AM happy. Apart from missing him. All my life, I've been looking for someone courageous and resourceful. He's not it. But something. We WERE something.the sky is falling -chicken little Don't be dismayed at goodbyes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes is certain for those who are friends.
I’ve learned that your family won’t always be there for you. It may seem funny, but people you aren’t related to can take care of you too.
because i came here with a load, and it feels so much lighter since i met you - coldplay green eyes
I stay wrecked and jealous for thisfor this simple reason Ijust need to keep you in mindas something larger than life
It's a troublesome world. All the people who're in itAre troubled with troubles almost every minute.You ought to be thankful, a whole heaping lot,For the places and people you're lucky you're not!--Dr. Seuss, "Did I Every Tell You How Lucky You Are?"
For of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: "It might have been!"--John Greenleaf Whittier
The difference between friendship and love is how much you can hurt each other. ~Ashleigh Brilliant~
Sometimes someone says something really small, and it just fits right into this empty place in your heart. ~My So-Called Life~
"Honey you are the sea upon which I float."-Coldplay
When u thought that it was over, u could feel it all around,& everybody’s out to get u ,don't let it drag u down-Cause if u ever feel neglected & u think that all is lost, I'll be counting up my demons, hoping everything's not lost. - Coldplay
The ignorant are always content. It is the ones who recognize the world, how it works, and what it can do to people, that feel the most pain
\All morons hate it when you call them a moron. -- H.C.
"I don't want to scare you, but I can very well clearly see you dying nobly, one way or another, for some highly unworthy cause." -- Mr. Antolini
- "Have I told you about the tension of opposites?" [Morrie] says.
- The tension of opposites?
- "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.
- "A tension of opposites, like a pull on a rubber band. And most of us live somewhere in the middle."Sounds like a wrestling match, I say.
- "A wrestling match." He laughs. "Yes, you could describe life that way
- So which side wins, I ask?- "Which side wins?"
- He smiles at me, the crinkled eye, the crooked teeth.- "Love wins. Love always wins."
"There are people that could tell you the mass of the sun but can't put into words how they feel. Just because that's the way they are." -- Anonymous
We don’t know one percent of a millionth of anything. -- Albert Einstein
"By the looks of your convention you'd think the worst thing that ever happened to us was the best thing that ever happened to you. You just can't keep celebrating the most deadliest attack ever as your personal rendevous with greatness." - Bill Maher
"Women can no longer complain about men until they start showing better taste in them" -- Bill Maher
"The real axis of evil in America is the genius of its marketing and the gullibility of its people." ~ Bill Maher
No no, I will still believe
It's hard when we have been deceived
And maybe I'm mistaken and maybe I'm not sure
But if that train ever does come back, then I will be on board

And when I go to sleep at night I hear someone else's song
Sung by some Canadian and thousands sing along
And everyone is dancing but I don't know the words
Mystery and chimera and a million flying birds
And everything gets quiet and the sea has a frozen tide
And night has started to descend but my eyes are open wide
And far off in the distance the sun looks like a train
Maybe my imagination is fooling me again