May 27, 2007

“We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves.” -Henri Frederic Amiel

“The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you doing? Think about these once in a while and watch your answers change.” -Richard Bach

Lorelai: I could lose him if I pushed too hard.
Linny: You don't really seem to have him now. At least not the way you want to have him. You won't get anything unless you ask for it. Then if you ask for it and you don't get it, maybe it wasn't worth having in the first place. Some things are just never meant to be. No matter how much we wish they were.
-Gilmore Girls

“I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center.” -Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

"Love is as strong as death. Why be capable of feelings if we're not to have them? Why long for things if they're not meant to be ours?" -Tristan & Isolde

“Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where your backbone ought to be.” -Clementine Paddleford

"There is something demoralizing about watching two people get more and more crazy about each other, especially when you are the only extra person in the room."

"To me, there are three things we all should do every day. We should do this every day of our lives. Number one is laugh. You should laugh every day. Number two is think. You should spend some time in thought. And number three is, you should have your emotions moved to tears, could be happiness or joy. But think about it. If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that's a full day. That's a heck of a day. You do that seven days a week, you're going to have something special." -Jim Valvano, 1993 ESPY awards

“It’s the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.” -The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho

“He recognized that he was feeling something he had never experienced before: the desire to live in one place forever.” -The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho

“When I was a boy, my mother told me that everyone comes into our lives for a reason. I’m not sure if I believe that’s true. The thought of God weaving millions of lives together into a grand human tapestry seems a bit fatalistic to me. Still, as I look back at my life, there seem to be times when such divinity is apparent… Perhaps my mother was right. If God can align the planets, maybe He can do the same to our lives.” -Finding Noel, Richard Paul Evans

“I’ve wondered why it is that some people come through difficult times bitter and broken while others emerge stronger and more empathetic? I’ve read that the same breeze that extinguishes some flames just fans others. I still don’t know what kind of flame I am.” -Finding Noel, Richard Paul Evans

“What did I tell ya? There's the whole world at your feet. And who gets to see it? But the birds, the stars and the chimney sweeps.” -Mary Poppins

"You wear a mask for so long, you forget who you were beneath it."-V for Vendetta

"Our integrity sells for so little, but it is all we really have. It is the very last inch of us, but within that inch, we are free.." -V for Vendetta

“A woman often thinks she regrets the lover, when she only regrets the love.” -Francois de la Rochefoucauld

“When my daughter was about seven years old, she asked me one day what I did at work. I told her I worked at the college- that my job was to teach people how to draw. She stared back at me, incredulous, and said, ‘You mean they forget?’” -Howard Ikemoto

“And all she wants is someone to be afraid of losing her.”

“When you drop a glass or a plate to the ground, it makes a loud crashing sound. When a window shatters, a table leg breaks, or when a picture falls off the wall, it makes a noise. But as for your heart, when that breaks, it’s completely silent. You would think as it’s so important it would make the loudest noise in the whole world, or even have some sort of ceremonious sound like the gong of a symbol or the ringing of a bell. But it’s silent and you almost wish there was a noise to distract you from the pain.” -Cecelia Ahern

“Yesterday at the market, I saw a couple holding hands... and I realized we'll never do that. Never anything like it. No picnics or unguarded smiles. No rings. Just... stolen moments that leave too quickly.” -Tristan & Isolde

“Why is it when you do something terrific, nine times out of 10 you're all alone, but when you screw up really big, the whole world is watching?” -Mr. Destiny

“I guess that's what happens in the end, you start thinking about the beginning.” -Mr. & Mrs. Smith

“If you give off signals that you don't want to belong, people will make sure that you don't.” -Pretty in Pink

“Regrets are as personal as fingerprints.” -Margarete Culkin Banning

“Laugh, laugh, laugh. Life is like high school and it's small and everybody talks about everybody, so just laugh." -Drew Barrymore