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Stop falling in love with everything that lets you down,
even if your hands are shaking and your faith is broken,
even as the eyes are closing, do it with a heart wide open.
Say what you need to say.
- John Mayer Same old thing happens every night
You get me going, and then you say goodbye
I'm heated up
And you just leave me there to take care of myself
Don't get mad, don't get all wound up
Just get your act together, or baby give it up
Just let me know if I should hit the road or if you want my help She has always been like this when she's sad, like she wants to be pressed to me but also distant, next to me & far away from me at the same time. like she is practicing being gone. And I don't really get it, how she can turn from me when she's at her most miserable, times when all I want to do is hold her & never let go. It's like the sadness pushes me, pulls her. And her pulling away makes things worse, way worse, for me, but I can't ever tell her that, because then she's even more sad, for hurting me. too many layers of hurt, & it starts to suffocate us both.
- scrambled eggs at midnight 
“ I believe with the advent of acid we discovered a new way to think, and it had to do with piecing together new thoughts in your mind. Why is it that people think it’s so evil? What is it about it that scares people so deeply? Because they are afraid that there is more to reality than they have ever confronted. That there are doors that they’re afraid to go in and they don’t want us to go in either, because if we go in we might learn something that they don’t know, and that makes us a little out of their control. ”
“L.S.D.” - Hallucinogen Even when you're not sure where you're headed,
it helps to know you're not going there alone.
No one has all the answers,
and sometimes the best thing to do is just apologize
and let the past be the past.
Other times we need to look to the future They called what had happened to them 'near-death experiences.' And they talked about how amazing it was to know what death was like and still be able to live. I feel like I'm having a near-life experience, like I used to be alive and I know what that's like but now I'm doing something else. I don't want to die or anything. I just feel like I'm not as alive as I used to be." 
I turn this up as loud as it goes,
and it ain't too much for the pain.
It's up to me and the heart on my sleeve
that hasn't quite been the same.
No one understands, no one understands,
no one understands what it's like.
I got your key right here.
Is that what you wanna hear?
I played the fool too many times,
I've been catching up for all my life.
And it seems it gets harder to believe.
It gets harder,
but to be honest,
If the sun don't shine tomorrow,
we'll survive.
- "No One Understands" by Bayside. Dusk, I realized then,
is just an illusion,
because the sun is either above the horizon
or below it.
And, that means that day and night are linked
in a way that few things are;
there cannot be one without the other,
yet they cannot exist at the same time.
How would it feel,
I remember wondering,
to be always together,
yet forever apart Stay mad as long as you can. Because once you're not mad anymore, it hurts. It hurts like hell and once it hurts that bad, you can't make yourself mad anymore. 
and know that even when we think we've seen it all,
life can still surprise us,
and we can still surprise ourselves.
- Gossip Girl
You ever look a picture of yourself, and see a stranger in the background?. It makes you wonder how many strangers have pictures of you. How many moments of other peoples life have we been in. Were we a part of someone's life when their dream came true or were we there when their dream died. Did we keep trying to get in? As if we were somehow destined to be there or did the shot take us by surprise. Just think, you could be a big part of someone elses life, and not even know it. My thoughts tend to sound better
in books I didn't write,
and in the songs I didn’t sing.
Even then, sometimes there is no piece of literature,
no song, no work of art that can really explain the way you feel.
There is a double-edge comfort in knowing that no one really knows
- social_hazard_quotes 
We cling to music, to poems, to quotes, to writing, to art because we desperately do not want to be alone. We want to know we aren't going crazy & someone else out there knows exactly how you're feeling. We want someone to explain the things we can't. We love everything tied up neatly, easy, simple, & when we can't have that, it scares the hell out of us. To not know the next step, or where you're headed, kills. Being unsure isn't in our plans. But it's those moments, the ones where you risk it & step unknowingly into the future that assures us life is larger than we'll ever know. "No relationship is perfect, ever. There are always some ways you have to bend, to compromise, to give something up in order to gain something greater...The love we have for each other is bigger than these small differences. And that's the key. It's like a big pie chart, and the love in a relationship has to be the biggest piece. Love can make up for a lot." My only relief is to sleep. When I’m sleeping,
I’m not sad, I’m not angry, I’m not lonely, I’m nothing. 
Climb to the top, get knocked down to the ground. When will all this bullshit stop? What goes around, comes around. My success is measured by comparison to you. Your time’s come and gone, you’re fucking through. Too proud to admit that you don’t know it all, but pride doesn’t mean a thing when your back’s to the wall Far away,
this ship is taking me far away.
Far away from the memories
of the people who care if I live or die.
Starlight,
I will be chasing your starlight
until the end of my life.
I don't know if it’s worth it anymore.
Hold you in my arms,
I just wanted to
hold you in my arms.
- "Starlight" by Muse. If you walk away, I'll walk away.
but tell me which path you're going to take, because I don't want to risk crossing your path someday. 
You don't love him; you don't know how to love people. You only know how to own them. And because people will never act just like you want them to, you'll always feel betrayed. And because everybody dies, you'll always feel cheated. But you're the cheat. You're the one who uses our love for you to try to control us. Drunk at a party, you asked me if I was someone else.
I say, "Yeah, if it helps you, I won't be myself." The important thing is not to be bitter
over life's disappointments.
Learn to let go of the past, and recognize
that every day won't be sunny.
And when you find yourself lost
in the darkness of despair, remember,
it's only in the black of night that
you see the stars, and those
stars lead you back home 
"Someone once told me about brain chemistry. When you're feeling good, you can't ever imagine feeling bad again. And when you're feeling bad, it's impossible to imagine a time when you won't be circling a drain." The first time this happened, one of us was moving away. The rest of us were simply left behind. Another one of us started hanging out with a different crowd more often; not answering the phone or returning messages, & basically cut off communication. The two of us left standing remained close, while still drifting apart. No, it wasn't as violent or as painful. But there was heartbreak, all the same. What is family? They were the people who claimed you. In good, in bad, in parts or in whole, they were the ones who showed up, who stayed in there, regardless. It wasn't just about blood relations or shared chromosomes, but something wider, bigger. We have many families over time. Our family of origin, the family we created, and the groups you moved through while all of this was happening: friends, lovers, sometimes even strangers. None of them perfect and we couldn't expect them to be. You can't make any one person your world. The trick was to take what each could give you and build your world from it.
-Lock and Key by Sarah Dessen 
"Sometimes people are beautiful.
Not in looks.
Not in what they say.
Just in what they are." Everything that comes together falls apart. Everything. The chair I’m sitting on. It was built, and so it will fall apart. I’m gonna fall apart, probably before this chair. And you’re gonna fall apart. The cells and organs and systems that make you you—they came together, grew together, and so must fall apart. The Buddha knew one thing science didn’t prove for millennia after his death: Entropy increases. Things fall apart.
-Looking For Alaska Love. it isn't very popular in technical circles to say a lot of mushy stuff about love, but frankly, it's a very important part of what holds our project together.
-Jimmy Wales; Founder of Wikipedia 
What is the big fuss about true love? Fuck true love. It's overrated. Fuck finding it. Fuck questioning it.
Fuck obsessing over it. Love is love and the more complex you make it, the less like love it becomes. I don't remember where and I don't remember when. I don't even remember the season. I just know that it was the first time I felt like I belonged someplace.
-The Perks Of Being A Wallflower. Is this what you need?
Am I what you need?
I'm coming to terms,
I'm starting to learn
this ain't all it's cracked up to be.
'Cause I'm using you,
and you're using me.
It's never as easy as we believe.
- "Coming to Terms" by Carolina Liar. 
And when the
brokenhearted people
living in the world agree,
there will be an answer.
Let it be.
-Let It Be by The Beatles. We're all going the same way. We're just taking different roads to get there. Just because it's not what you expected, doesn't mean it isn't everything you've been waiting for. 
Stop and make sure that everything you are doing right now is really what makes you happy. You can't just live for some goal in the future and have that be everything, have that be it because that is what some people do. They get on this road and there are all these signs saying, 'This way. That way,' but what if you get there. You get exactly what you wanted, like some people do, except all the things that were wrong are still wrong. Then what?
-Party Of Five. And yet, I found I could survive. I was alert, I felt the pain - the aching loss that radiated out from my chest, sending wracking waves of hurt through my limbs and my head - but it was manageable. I could live through it. It didn't feel like the pain had weakened over time, rather that I'd grown strong enough to bear it. "But it's strange, when you've always been told something is true, like the moon will come back. You need proof. And while you wait, you feel the entire balance of your world just tipping. It's crazy. But when it's over, and it does come back, that's the best, because it's all you want, everything narrows to just that. It's this great rush, like for that one second everything's okay with the world again. It's amazing.” 
You know, I've got this theory; there are two kinds of people in the world. There are lyric people and music people. You know, the lyrics people tend to be analytical. You know, all about the meaning of the song. They're the ones you see with the CD insert out like five minutes after buying it, pouring over the lyrics, interpreting the hell out of everything. Then there's the music people.. who could care less for the lyrics as long as its just got, like, a good beat and you could dance to it. I don't know, sometimes it might be easier to be a music girl and not a lyric girl. But since I'm not, let me just say this: sometimes things find you when you need them to find you. I believe that. And for me, it's usually song lyrics.
- One Tree Hill Live today. Not yesterday. Not tomorrow. Just today. Inhabit your moments. Don’t rent them out to tomorrow. Do you know what you’re doing when you spend a moment wondering how things are going to turn out?
You’re cheating yourself out of today. Today is calling to you, trying to get your attention, but you’re stuck on tomorrow, and today trickles away like water down a drain. You wake up the next morning and that today you wasted is gone forever. It’s now yesterday. Some of those moments may have had wonderful things in store for you, but now you’ll never know. People think dreams aren't real just because they aren't made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes. 
Happiness damn near destroys you, breaks your faith to pieces on the floor. So you tell yourself, that's enough for now, happiness has a violent roar. Happiness is like the old man told me look for it, but you'll never find it all. Let it go, live your life and leave it, then one day, wake up and she'll be home, home, home, home. It's not hard. It's painful but it's not hard. You know what to do already. If you didn't, you wouldn't be in so much pain. I'm at that point in my life where things are neither good nor bad.
They could be better, but they could be worse
and I can't look at anything with a purely pessimistic or optimistic point of view.
It's that point in life where you just have to forge forward and hope for the best.
You keep your fingers crossed in hopes of someday catching that happiness
you tried so hard to hold in your grasp. "Love is a form of prejudice. You love what you need, you love what makes you feel good, you love what is convenient. How can you say you love one person when there are ten thousand people in the world that you would love more if you ever met them? But you'll never meet them." 
Let's be honest. Sometimes there is nothing harder in life than being happy for somebody else. Like lottery winners. Or extremely successful people who are 27. And then there's that hell on earth that only your closest friends can inflict on you. People come, people go – they’ll drift in and out of your life, almost like characters in a favorite book. When you finally close the cover, the characters have told their story and you start up again with another book, complete with new characters and adventures. Then you find yourself focusing on the new ones, not the ones from the past. I'm a very independent girl, and sometimes people think I'm weird because of it. But that doesn't bother me. Just because I'm not afraid to stand up for what I believe in, even when everyone else is sitting down, that's no reason to follow the crowd. Because maybe, just maybe, I'll make someone's life better because I wasn't afraid. 
Immature love is wanting the other person to be happy only when they're with you. Mature love is wanting the other person to be happy, period. When adults say, "Teenagers think they are invincible" with that sly, stupid smile on their faces, they don't know how right they are. We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken. We think that we are invincible because we are. We cannot be born, and we cannot die. Like all energy, we can only change shapes and sizes and manifestations. They forget that when they get old. They get scared of losing and failing. But that part of us greater than the sum of our parts cannot begin and cannot end, and so it cannot fail. Just say what you mean and mean what you say. Don't
expect someone to read your mind, and don't play games
with heads or hearts. Don't tell half truths and expect trust
when the full truth comes out. Half truths are no better
than lies. Don't be cold to someone you care about,
indifference hurts more than angry words. 
I was beginning to see, though, that the unknown wasn't always the greatest thing to fear. The people who know you best can be riskier, because the words they say and things they think have the potential to be not only scary but true, as well. "True friendship isn't about being there when it's convenient; it's about being there when it's not" Is anybody satisfied with who they really are? You could be the moon and still be jealous of the stars. 
It all boils down to one quotable phrase
"If you love something give it away" Impossible isn`t a fact, it`s an opinion. It`s not a declaration; it`s a dare. It`s potential, it`s temporary. Impossible means nothing. No matter how much time has passed, these things still affect us and the world we live in. If you don't pay attention to the past, you'll never understand the future. It's all linked together. 
Everything that comes together falls apart. When you stopped wishing things wouldn't fall apart, you'd stop suffering when they did. In the space between yes and no, there's a lifetime. It's the difference between the path you walk and the one you leave behind; it's the gap between who you thought you could be and who you really are; its the legroom for the lies you'll tell yourself in the future. If I'm going to be alive,
then I might as well be
incredible.
I want to do more
than just exist. 
He was my escape. And sometimes, that can feel a whole lot like love. It's just that...I just think that some things are meant to be broken. Imperfect. Chaotic. It's the universe's way of providing contrast, you know? There have to be a few holes in the road. It's how life is. I was amazed that they had so much to talk about. From the second they saw each other, there was a constant laughing and sarcasm and commentary, something connecting them that pulled taut or fell limp with each thought spoken. Their words, like the music, had the potential to be endless. The silence between us stretched out, but it wasn't awkward. Sometimes there are people you can be quiet with, and you never feel the need to fill the gap with meaningless chit-chat. 
I finally figured out that not every crisis can be managed. As much as we want to keep ourselves safe, we can't protect ourselves from everything. If we want to embrace life, we also have to embrace chaos. 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. Too many people grow up. That's the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up. They forget. They don't remember what it's like to be twelve years old. 
Growing up is never easy. You hold on to things that were. You wonder what's to come. But that night, 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. You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you’ll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present. Sometimes you need to walk alone, just to show the world that you can. 
That's the thing about needs. Sometimes when you get them met, you don't need them anymore. Most people I know fill their days with meaningless bullshit, small talk, and trivial diversions
just to keep the noise in their own heads down. I realized these were all the snapshots which our children would look at someday with wonder, thinking their parents had lived smooth, well-ordered lives and got up in the morning to walk proudly on the sidewalks of life, never dreaming the raggedy madness and riot of our actual lives, our actual night, the hell of it, the senseless emptiness. 
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| "Dear God" lyrics by Sarah McLachlan
Dear God,
Hope you got the letter and
I pray you can make it better down here.
I don't mean a big reduction in the price of beer
But all the people that you made in your image,
See them starving on their feet
'Cause they don't get enough to eat
From God
I can't believe in you.
Dear God,
Sorry to disturb you, but
I feel that I should be heard loud and clear.
We all need a big reduction in the amount of tears
And all the people that you made in your image,
See them fighting in the street
'Cause they can't make opinions meet
About God,
I can't believe in you.
Did you make disease, and the diamond blue?
Did you make mankind after we made you?
And the devil too?!
Dear God,
Don't know if you noticed, but...
Your name is on a lot of quotes in this book,
Us crazy humans wrote it, you should take a look,
And all the people that you made in your image,
Still believing that junk is true
Well I know it ain't, and so do you
Dear God,
I can't believe in...
I don't believe in...
I won't believe in heaven and hell.
No saints, no sinners, no devil as well.
No pearly gates, no thorny crown.
You're always letting us humans down.
The wars you bring, the babes you drown.
Those lost at sea and never found,
And it's the same the whole world 'round.
The hurt I see helps to compound
That Father, Son and Holy Ghost
Is just somebody's unholy hoax
And if you're up there you'd perceive
That my heart's here upon my sleeve.
If there's one thing I don't believe in.....
It's you.....
Dear God.
[ Quote update coming sometime this week. Thought I'd post these lyrics that I found randomly because they are really moving. ] | | |
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Freedom's just another word for nothing to lose.
Nothing ain't nothing, but it's free. I've never seen a smiling face that was not b e a u t i f u l . How come we're never happy? It was, I decided, a legitimate question. How come humans, with all their ways to make life easier, were never content? It was as if perfect happiness did not exist. Even now, as the warmth suffocated me and the cold froze me, I was proving it to myself. Just when I wanted something the most, I received it, only to realize that I had never really wanted it in the first place. 
"the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars."
-Jack Kerouac- I now existed in a world between worlds. I could no longer relate to the people outside of me, and yet my life had not been extinguished. I was not only an oddity to those around me, but on the inside, I was an oddity to myself. So, this is my life. And I want you to know that
I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to
figure out how that could be.
- perks of being a wallflower. 
Do you remember what the music meant? Life's just complications and frustrations. They disappear when the music starts playing. I found a place where it feels alright. I heard a record, and it opened my eyes. Do you remember when we couldn't put it away? Do you remember what it meant? And nothing else matters when I turn it up loud. It's crazy how we always
end up where we're meant
to be. How the most ironic
situations eventually teach
you something you'd never
dreamed you were
going to learn. I wait for the day when I forget who you are,
when the sound of your name is old and worn,
the days when I won't remember why I needed you so bad 
“There is a time for departure, even if there is no certain place to go.”
-Tennessee Williams when you sleep, no one is homeless.
when you sleep, you can't feel the hunger.
when you sleep, no one is lonely in a dream. Don't take it too bad, it's nothing you did.
Just once something dies, you can't make it live. 
You can spend minutes, hours, days, weeks, even months analyzing a situation, trying to put the pieces together, justifying what could've, should've, or would've happened. Or you can just put the pieces on the floor and move the fuck on. "Calm is for losers. I’ve spent my whole life compromising and being a good little girl and not doing what I want, or doing what I want and hiding it and feeling guilty for doing it and I’m sick of it."
- Gilmore Girls I want one person to really care about what I have to say. 
My biggest fear? No, it's not spiders or snakes or even clowns. Although I do tend to have nightmares about them. But this fear is so much bigger. Bigger than me or you. The fear of leaving this world without affecting someone's life. Without leaving a memory of me somewhere on this earth. Yeah, that's what I’m afraid of. Behind everything beautiful thing there is some kind of pain. -Bob Dylan "I wanted the hard, disgusting, saddening, and empowering truth. The kind of truth that makes you seem like a lunatic to people. The truth that keeps you heavily dosed on some sort of narcotic so you don’t lose your sanity." 
No matter what happens, life still goes on. You have to know that.
Stop hanging on. Let go and move on. "You have four years to be irresponsible here. Relax. Work is for people with jobs. You’ll never remember class time, but you'll remember time you wasted hanging with your friends. So, stay out late. Go out on a Tuesday when you have a paper due Wednesday. Spend Money you don't have. Drink 'til sunrise. The work never ends, but high school does."-Tom Petty. Where were all your shoulders when i was crying? 
"But I don’t want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin . . . I'm claiming the right to be unhappy."
- John the Savage, Brave New World You will learn to help yourself.
It will break your heart, and it will
make you strong. - postsecret The most beautiful people we have known are those
who have known defeat, known suffering, known
struggle, known loss, and have found their way out
of the depths. These persons have an appreciation,
a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills
them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern.
Beautiful people do not just happen.
+ + Elizabeth Kubler Ross  There is really nothing you must be.
And there is nothing you must do.
There is nothing you must have.
And there is nothing you must become.
However it helps to understand that fire burns,
and when it rains the earth gets wet.
+ + Ancient Japanese Teaching You've made me into a whole different person. Happy, confident, and fun to be around. But mostly, mostly you put hope back into my life. If for no other reason, that's why you came into my life- to show me hope again. "Some girl called my cell phone and mistook me for her husband... It was weird, but for a second, even though I wasn't who she thought I was... I was the love of her life; I was her everything, her dreams, her hopes, her courage. For a moment, she loved me... for a second, out there… I mattered to someone else." 
All we all want is something to talk the pain away, something to make things better. Something to make us smile. We want someone to love, someone who will be there, and we want a hand to hold. Not only is that what we want, its what we need. After a while ;; you get sick of being alone, and you get sick of the pain. That’s when we need someone to love. We need someone to walk into our life, and we need them to be there for us. They have to be there, and they have to give us good times, and make us smile. They might make us sad once in awhile, but as long as they usually take the pain away, that's what matters as you’re reading this, your life’s getting shorter.
it’s ticking away.
i’m not saying this to frighten you. or even scare you.
though it may.
i’m saying this to awaken you. to inspire you.
to rise you out of your deep slumber.
to really know you won’t live forever. Until you love yourself, you will never change.  there are moments when it's too quiet,
particularly late at night or early in the morning.
that's when you know there's something lacking in your life. You were only given this life because
you're strong enough to live it. The funny thing is, nobody ever really knows how much anybody else is
hurting. We could be standing next to someone who is completely broken,
and we wouldn’t even know. 
So many people walk around with a
meaningless life. They seem half asleep,
even when they're busy doing things
they think are important. This is because
they're chasing the wrong things. A super villian in a trench coat, posing as a hero, tries to sell us an anti-revolutionary dream. Have you ever taken the time to find your favorite star? Have you ever wondered who you really are? Have you ever seen through all of my shit? Is it not enough for you to be alive? Did you have to create god to survive? This is all we have and all we have is everywhere. There are so many stars. The church and state are lethal killers. 
sometimes you need another
person to make you feel better
and you're my person right now.
- The Real World & today I had a thought, what if I had never met you? Later that day I got to thinking about relationships. there are those that open you up to something new and exotic, those that are old and familiar, those that bring up lots of questions, those that bring you somewhere unexpected, those that bring you far from where you started, and those that bring you back. But the most exciting, challenging and significant relationship of all is the one you have with yourself. and if you can find someone to love the you, you love, well, that's just fabulous. Silent fighting is the worst. At least when
there's screaming and yelling you know
what the other person is feeling. 
You don't let people in. It's hard for you, and once you do, you don't want to let them go, and when they screw up, you're like, 'why did you do that to me?' I gave you my feelings. I did everything for you; and you screwed me over.
+ The Hills. "I hate to be the one to break it to you, but rock and roll can't actually save the world."
"See, I disagree. Walk into any club on the strip tonight, and just look at the kids. Look into their eyes. I mean they're all looking for something to believe in, and I think that music can be the thing to change the world." At this moment there are; 6,470,818,671 people in the world. Some are running scared. Some are coming home. Some tell lies to make it through the day. Others are just now facing the truth. Some are evil men at war with good. As some are good, struggling with evil. Six billion people in the world, Six billion souls, and sometimes, all you need is one
I really don't understand how you can be so heartless,
considering you have mine. "Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet."
- Bob Dylan
In order to change we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.
Author Unknown 
Like all of a sudden I didn't fit in anywhere.
Not at school, not at home. And every time I turned around, another person I'd known forever felt like a stranger to me.
Even I felt like a stranger to me. If you aren't just a little bit depressed, then you aren't
paying much attention to what's going on in the world.
-Pete Wentz "If you're going to love me, love me deeply. If you're going to break my heart, then break it all. If you're going to care, care for me completely. If you decide not to hold me, then just let me fall. If you decide to stay, then stay forever. And if you want to leave, do it today. If you're going to change, change for the better. And if you’re going to talk, please mean what you say." 
Peeling the label off of your water bottle may seem like a good idea at the time, but you'll regret it. And don't think, "Nah, this time I won't get that sticky shit on my hand." You will, don't do it. [ Hah the last one makes me laugh :) ] | | |
| I guess it's been a little while since I did a post.. and I've been collecting more quotes as usual.. so today if I don't work I shall make a post! And if I do work, I'll do it after work. :) | | |
| It's been a long time. I don't update much but I do still collect quotes. Hope you all enjoy this update :) Q u o t e s "So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun." 
Just close your eyes
and pretend it’s all a bad dream,
that’s how I get by
–Captain Jack Sparrow "Of course I’m ambitious.
What’s wrong with that?
Otherwise you sleep all day."
-Ringo Starr- 
"I have a lot more patience for others than I have for myself, and I'm much better at bringing out the best in others than in myself. That's just the kind of person I am. I'm the scratchy stuff on the side of the matchbox. But that's fine with me. I don't mind at all. Better to be a first-class matchbox than a second-class match." I will not play at tug o' war. I'd rather play at hug o' war,
where everyone hugs instead of tugs,
where everyone giggles and rolls on the rug,
where everyone kisses, and everyone grins,
and everyone cuddles, and everyone wins.
++Shel Silverstein 
"There will be other lives. There will be other lives for nervous boys with sweaty palms, for bittersweet fumblings in the backseats of cars, for caps and gowns in royal blue and crimson, for mothers clasping pretty pearl necklaces around daughters' unlined necks, for your full name read aloud in an auditorium, for brand new suitcases transporting you to strange new people in strange new lands. And there will be other lives for unpaid debts, for one-nightstands, for Prague and Paris, for painful shoes with pointy toes, for indecisions and revisions. And there will be other lives for fathers walking daughters down aisles. And there will be other lives for sweet babies with skin like milk. And there will be other lives for a man you don't recognize, for a face in the mirror that is no longer yours, for the funerals of intimates, for shrinking, for teeth that falls out, for hair on your chin, for forgetting everything. Everything. Oh, there are so many lives. How we wish we could live them concurrently instead of one by one by one. We could detect the best pieces of each, stringing them together like a strand of pearls. But that's not how it works. A human life is a beautiful mess." Sometimes in your life, you need lust. You need the adrenaline rush of knowing that this is not forever and that you're not committed to anything. 
Because I usually accept people on the basis of their self-images,
because their self-images have more to do
with the way they think than their objective-images do.
Maybe she’s six hundred pounds, who knows.
If she doesn’t care, I don’t.
- Andy Warhol Anxiety is a thin stream of fear trickling
through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a
channel into which all other thoughts are drained.
+ + Arthur Somers RocheWorry, doubt, fear and despair are the enemies
which slowly bring us down to the ground and
turn us to dust before we die.
+ + Douglas MacArthur 
It's 2 AM and she's lying on her bed staring at the ceiling.
All these thoughts in her head, just so confused.
Doesn't know what to do. In need of someone to talk to,
but doesn't know who. So she just lies there.
Her eyes fixed on the ceiling with her headphones blaring.
But nothing she's hearing. I love mankind -
its people I can't stand.
+ + Charles M. Schulz 
Some of the most comforting words in the universe are “me too.” That moment when you find out that your struggle is also someone else’s struggle that you’re not alone, and that others have been down the same road. You know that point in your life when you realize that the house that you grew up in isn't really your home anymore? All of the sudden even though you have some place where you can put your stuff that idea of home is gone. You'll see when you move out it just sort of happens one day one day and it's just gone. And you can never get it back. It's like you get homesick for a place that doesn't exist. I mean it's like this right of passage, you know. You won't have this feeling again until you create a new idea of home for yourself, you know, for your kids, for the family you start, it's like a cycle or something. I miss the idea of it. Maybe that's all family really is. A group of people who miss the same imaginary place.- Garden State 
The hardest part to deal with, more than schoolwork, college,
life, and friends, more than, as she put it, "alternating between
not caring and caring and regretting not caring when I care,"
was that on top of everything - on top of driving themselves
to be smart, pretty, thin, and athletic - perhaps the most
difficult pressure for high school students was that despite it all,
they also has to push themselves to appear happy.
+ + Alexandra Robbins Now it's not like I'm completely closed to truth beyond science, I just need something more than a book. And you say "What about the trees? The sky? Those dreams you have that symbolize some sort of divine plan? Or how about that time when you were ten years old and you almost ran out into a busy road? You couldn't stop your own momentum, but something pushed you, and to this very day you still don't know what it was, and it scares you. You think about it every night, but over the years you've been convinced that it was you. You stopped yourself?" 
As long as the music's loud enough
we won't hear the world falling apart "It's a funny thing about comin' home. Looks the same, smells the same, and feels the same. You'll realize what's changed is you."-The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. 
Are we growing up or just going down?
It's just a matter of time until we're found out
Take our tears, put them on ice.
Cause I swear I'd burn this city down to show you the light.
There's a drug in the thermostat to warm the room up.
And there's another around to help us bend your trust
I've got a sunset in my veins
And I need to take a pill to make this town feel okay.
- "Sophomore slump or comeback of the year", Fall Out Boy you've gotta smile sometimes
you're worlds will collide
I know your tired of waiting
so when you're through with hating
you'll be a much more beautiful person
and now you know. 
"This is a fair request and I promise I will not judge any person only as a teenager. You will constantly remind yourself that some of my generation judges people by their race, their belief or the color of their skin and that is no more right than saying all teenagers are drunken dope-addicts or glue sniffers. Do you think it's strange, that's there's a way of how you look at how you act and how you think, pretend they're not the same as you?" It's amazing how much you can put up with from people you like and how little you can take from the people you don't. 
I don’t have a fear of commitment- I have a fear of abandonment.
We all screw things up, I screw things up.
Especially with the people I love.
I get needy, I get moody, I get distant, I want to be too close.
I get confused; I don’t understand all of it.
But I keep pushing because I hope in this thing, the universe,
there’s no way I’m the only person out there who wants something this bad.
If I want it someone else out there must too. "I think it was the first time in my life I ever felt like I looked "good". Do you know what I mean? That nice feeling when you look in the mirror and your hair's right for the first time in your life? I don't think we should base so much on weight, muscles, and a good hair day, but when it happens, it's nice. It really is"
-Perks of Being a Wallflower 
"Hell is empty,
all the devils live here."
- Shakespeare People are unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered.
Love them anyway. If you do good, people may accuse
you of selfish motives. Do good anyway. If you are
successful, you may win false friends and true enemies.
Succeed anyway. The good you do today may be
forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway. Honesty and
transparency make you vulnerable. Be honest and
transparent anyway. What you spend years building
may be destroyed overnight. Build anyway. People
who really want help may attack you if you help them.
Help them anyway. Give the world the best you have
and you may get hurt. Give the world your best anyway.
+ + Mother Theresa 
True strength is being able to hold it together When no one would blame you for falling apart. There once was a little boy who had a bad temper.
his father gave him a bag of nails + told him that every time he lost his temper, he must hammer a nail into the back of the fence.
the first day the boy had driven 87 nails into the fence.
over the next few weeks, as he learned to control his anger, the number of nails hammered daily gradually dwindled down.
he discovered it was easier to hold his temper than to drive those nails into the fence.
finally the day came when the boy didnt lose his temper at all.
he told his father about it + the father suggested that the boy now pull out one nail for each day that he was able to hold his temper.
the days passed + the young boy was finally able to tell his father that all the nails were gone.
the father took his son by the hand + led him to the fence.
he said,
"you have done well, my son, but look at the holes in the fence.
the fence will never be the same.
when you say things in anger, they leave a scar just like this one.
you can put a knife in a man + draw it out.
it wont matter how many times you say "im sorry", the wound is still there.
a verbal wound is as bad as a physical one.
friends are very rare jewels, indeed.
they make you smile + encourage you to succeed.
they lend an ear, they share words of praise + they always want to open their hearts to us." 
"You get a strange feeling when you're about to leave a place, I told him, like you'll not only miss the people you love but you'll miss the person you are now at this time and this place, because you'll never be this way ever again." When you see something beautiful, something
bigger than you, whether created by nature or
man, it changes you, it mellows you, it changes
your attitude towards life
[ Will Smith ] 
When you're sick a friend will say "I hope you get better" But a best friend will say "you better not make me sick." I'm mad at myself, not you. I'm mad for always being nice.
I'm mad for always apologizing for things I didn't do.
I'm mad for getting attached.
I'm mad for depending on you and wasting my time on you.
I'm mad for thinking about you, and most of all
for not hating you when I should. 
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