"People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered; forgive them anyway. If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish ulterior motives; be kind anyway. If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies; succeed anyway. If you are honest and frank, people may cheat; be honest and frank anyway. What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight; build anyway. If you find serenity and happiness, people may be jealous; be happy anyway. The good you do today, people often forget tomorrow; do good anyway. Give the world the best you’ve got, and it may never be enough; give your best anyway. In the end, it was between you and God, it was never between you and them anyway."
-- Kent M. Keith

'May your coming year be filled with magic & dreams & good madness. I hope you read some fine books & kiss someone who thinks you're wonderful, & don't forget to make some art - write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can; & I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself."
-- Neil Gaiman

"Through humour, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation may be, you can survive it."
-- Bill Cosby

"Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn, or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude."
-- Denis Waitley

"Whatever you are doing, love yourself for doing it. Whatever you are feeling, love yourself for feeling it."
-- Thaddeus Golas

"When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me.' "
-- Erma Bombeck

"risk more than others think is safe.
care more than others think is wise.
dream more than others think is practical
and expect more than others think is possible."

"I've been thinking about you & how we used to be then. Back when we didn't have to live. We could start again. There's nothing left to say. Don't waste another day. Just you and me tonight, everything will be okay. If it's alright with you, then it's alright with me. Baby, let's take this time, let's make new memories."
-- Jay Sean

"Twenty years from now, I'm going to look back & remember the few who could turn every frown into a smile. The ones who lifted my head when I was losing faith in myself. The ones who were there after every fight, break up, or death. The ones who always knew what I was feeling by the look on my face. The few who accepte...d me when everyone else laughed in my face. The few who really knew me. My best friends."

"whether you win or you lose, the sun still comes up the next morning."

"don't ever let your regrets take the place of your dreams."

"I saw you walking by today. Your hair was longer and you might have been a little taller. But it was still you, and you still smiled at me, and I still couldn't speak."

"Don't do what you want. Do what you don't want. Do what you're trained not to want. Do the things that scare you the most."
-- Chuck Palahniuk

"Music is powerful. And you know why? Because no matter how you're feeling, there's always a song out there with that one lyric that describes exactly how you're feeling. And it's amazing when you hear that lyric for the first time because it explains everything. Music is there for you when you can't find the words on your own."

"Something happens when 12,000 people come together & sing a song."
-- Nick Jonas

"Write like you’re clinging to the edge of a cliff, white knuckles, on your last breath, and you’ve got just one last thing to say, like you’re a bird flying over us and you can see everything, and please, for God’s sake, tell us something that will save us from ourselves. Take a deep breath and tell us your deepest, d...arkest secret, so we can wipe our brow and know that we’re not alone."

"The time most wasted is the time you spend thinking you are alone."

"I want to try counting the ways I love you & lose count in the middle just so I have to start all over again."

"Dreams are always crushing when they don't come true. But it's the simple dreams that are often the most painful, because they seem so personal, so reasonable, so attainable. You're always close enough to touch, but never quite close enough to hold. & it's enough to break your heart."

"the best feeling is taking a step in the right direction, towards a future where everything you never thought was possible is possible."

"i try & try to forget you. But, it's just so hard to do... Everytime you do that thing you do."

"How can the only thing that's killing me make me feel so alive?"

"what you search for the most will come the very second you stop looking for it."

"The most utterly lost of all days is that on which you have not laughed."

"nothing tastes as sweet as what i can't have."

"We run back to each other when it's convenient. We know that in the end we're meant for each other but not for right now. So we play these games, act like we're okay when one of us has someone else. When in reality it tears us apart to know that we can be happy with someone else. But it's that slight hope that we will end up together that always keeps us running back for more."

"Getting denied should just make you want it more. Keep trying and, each time, push harder than before. You can’t live your life always worried about 'what if,' because what if you die tomorrow and you never lived?"

"what is meant to be will always find its way."

"...and thinking how the first scent of autumn is like coming across a lost album of childhood photographs."

"Sometimes I wish that I had never met you, so I could go to sleep at night not knowing there was someone like you out there."

"it's a curious thought, but it's only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them."

"Nobody I like likes me as much as I like them.
Nobody I think about thinks about me as much as I think about them."

"Love when you're ready; not when you're lonely."

"it's just a smile, but it gets me everytime."

“It’s pain that changes our lives.”
-Steve Martin

"i remember it clearly, the first
day i saw him. i don't think i knew it then,
but i guess i was falling in love."

"Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears."
[ Les Brown ]

"Too many people get caught up in what could be instead of appreciating what is. Don't fall into that trap. Appreciate what you have and who you have, because the future can take it all away from you."

"I'm perfectly happy being his friend, in fact I love it.
I just have this incredible urge to kiss him, that doesn't go away
and this feeling that we would be perfect together."

"The best place in the world is with the people that make you smile."

"It is better to sleep on things beforehand than
lie awake about them afterwards."

"If you aren't willing to put up with a little pain, you won't go far. With every journey you'll get scratches and bruises, but if you really love it, those scratches will be worth it and you wouldn't really notice them because you take the pain with the joy."

"The greatest irony of love; loving the right person at the wrong time, having the wrong person when the time is right and finding out you love someone right after that person walks out of your life. And sometimes, you think you're already over a person, but when you see them smile at you, you'll suddenly realize that you're just pretending to be over them just to ease the pain of knowing that they will never be yours again. For some, they think that letting go is one way of expressing how much they love that person. Some are afraid to see the one they love being held by someone else. Most relationships tend to fail not because the absence of love. Love is always present. It's just that one was being loved too much and the other was being love too little. As we all know that the heart is the center of the body but it beats on the left. Maybe that's the reason why the heart is not always right. Most often we fall in love with the person we think we love but to only discover that for them, we are just for passig time while the one who truly loves us remains either a friend or a stranger. So here's a piece of advice; let go when you're hurting too much, give up when love isn't enough, and move on when things are not like before. For sure there is someone out there who will love you even more."

"dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to mourn the un-mailed love letters & the lonely decembers. the children ask, does it ever go away? they're asking about heartache & you know better than to lie so you answer truthfully & you say, no, it doesnt, it doesnt go away. one day you're jumping in puddles & the next thing you know 30 years have passed & you're telling your kids to walk around them. everyone is taught to look both ways before crossing the street & to talk quietly in the library, but no one ever learns anything that matters, like how to keep breathing when your heart breaks in half."

"The simple truth is that sometimes the most ordinary things could be made extraordinary, simply by doing them with the right people."

"The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress."
--Charles Kettering

"It's hard to believe we aren't those kids anymore.
Almost as hard as it is to believe we ever were."

"and after awhile, you learn that you don't
need anyone else in order to survive.
No one else is ever going to always be there,
no matter what they say or promise you.
You just gotta suck it up, accept it,
and keep on keepin' on."
-Hey Arnold

"Everyone has their weak spot.
The one thing that, despite your
best efforts, will always bring you
to your knees, regardless of how
strong you are otherwise."

"You see, I'm the bravest girl you'll ever meet,
and yet I shrink down to nothing
at the thought of someone really seeing me."
-Marie Digby

""We're all strangers connected by what we reveal, what we share, what we take away--our stories. I guess that's what I love about books--they are thin strands of humanity that tether us to one another for a small bit of time, that make us feel less alone or even more comfortable with our aloneness, if need be."

"There's nothing like being with people you’ve known almost your entire life. Having a shared history is something you just can’t create with the new ones. No matter how much you like that, it just isn’t the same."

"Whoever said laughter is the best medicine was right - it's also the glue that holds friendships together. To laugh together at life's ridiculous turn of events makes those events bearable. To laugh at the funny things in life makes life wonderful. The real gift is having a friend to share…laughter with."

"I saw the sky and sea and sand and the flickering flames of the bonfire through my tears. All at once, it rushed into my head with tremendous speed, and made me feel dizzy. It was beautiful. Everything that happened was shockingly beautiful, enough to make you crazy."