quotes

Monday, May 05, 2008

current mood: calm
category: life

Everyone else seems to have devoted a blog to them.

"I suffer when I see that common sight of a parent or senior imposing his opinion and way of thinKing and being on a young soul to which he is totally unfit. Cannot we let people be themselves and enjoy life in their own way? You are trying to maKe another you. One's enough."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"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 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 healty 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

"Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much."
-Oscar Wilde

"As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular."
-Oscar Wilde

"Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught."
-Oscar Wilde

"Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you."
-Oscar Wilde

"He that blows the coals in quarrels that he has nothing to do with, has no right to complain if the sparks fly in his face."
-Benjamin Franklin
(in lamens terms, if you meddle in someone else's business, don't complain when you get burned.)

"I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority."
-E.B. White

"There is no remedy for love but to love more."
-Henry David Thoureau

"Maybe, the reason people want love is because it's the closest thing we have to magic."
-Aquamarine

"At the end of the day, faith is a funny thing. It turns up when you don't really expect it. It's like, one day, you realize that the fairy tale may be slightly different than you dreamed. The castle, well it may not be a castle, and it's not so important happy ever after, just that it's happy right now. See once in a while, once in a blue moon, people will surprise you and once in a while, people may even take your breath away."
-Grey's Anatomy

"All a girl really wants is for one guy to prove to her that they're not all the same..."
-Marilyn Monroe

"Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero."
"Seize the day, while trusting little on what tomorrow might bring."

"When it comes down to it, let them think what they want...If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I'm already better than them anyway."
-Marilyn Monroe

"When you come to the end of all the light you know, and it's time to step into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing that one of two things shall happen: either you will be given something solid to stand on, or you will be taught to fly."
-Edward Teller

"Who are you to judge the life I live? I know I'm not perfect and I don't live to be. But before you start pointing fingers....make sure your hands are clean."
-Bob Marley

"And your the closest to heaven that I've ever been and I don't want to go home right now. And all I can taste is this moment, and all I can breathe is your life. I just don't wanna miss you tonight."
-Goo Goo Dolls

"Courage is not the absence of fear. Courage is fear with the willingness to go on."
-Black Knight

"Well, I hope this isn't a real emergency 'cause I only brought one bottle of vodka."
-The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

"Alice came to a fork in the road. 'Which road do I take?' she asked. 'Where do you want to go?' responded the Chesire Cat. 'I don't know,' Alice answered. 'Then,' said the cat, 'it doesn't matter.'"
-Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

"And it's two bare feet on the dashboard, young love in an old Ford, Cheap shades, and a tattoo, and a YooHoo bottle on the floorboard. Perfect song on the radio, sing along cause it's one we know. It's a smile, it's a kiss, It's a sip of wine, it's summertime. Sweet summertime."
-Kenny Chesney, Summertime

"But the struggles make you stronger. And the changes make you wise. And happiness has it's own way of taking it's sweet time."
-Gary Allan, Life Ain't Always Beautiful

"Don't let anyone look down on you because you are young, but set an example for the believers in speech, in life, in love, in faith, and in purity."
-1 Timothy 4:12

"Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today."
-James Dean

"For all of us Sweet Carolina girls. We can wear our Rainbows or our pointed-stilettos with pride. We realize that having blisters and cramped pinky toes is not always necessary for the approval of our peers. You can spot us with our Vera Bradley bag by our side and our oversized pearls that match every possible outfit known to mankind. And yes, we may be snobby to almost every guy that approaches us, but thats only because we know that Carolina girls never settle for less than the best. So as we raise our margarita glasses high, we say, 'Diamonds are pretty and so are pearls, but there is nothing better than us Carolina girls.'"

"For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal."
-2 Corinthians 4:10

"You can't choose how or when you die. However, you do have the choice to be willing to have a life worth living."
-Erwin McManus

"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

"Hakuna Matata. It means no worries."
-The Lion King

"Here's to the strong, thanks to the brave. Don't give up hope...some people change. Against the odds, against the grain, love finds a way...some people change."
-Montgomery Gentry, Some People Change

"Hold your head up high gorgeous. There's people who would kill to see you fall."

"I'll always miss you. I'll always feel the loss I have to remind myself that you're better off. I gotta believe even though these tears of mine, wherever you are there's always a sun that shines. You've got a room with a view, a window to the world. You always had your sights set high, and now that you'e gone, Your memory lives on, and I see you smiling in my mind. With angels as visitors dropping by your room with a view."
-Carolyn Johnson

"I'm not a perfect girl. My hair doesn't always stay in place. I spill a lot of things - I'm pretty clumsy and sometimes I have a broken heart. My friends and I sometimes fight and maybe somedays, nothing goes right. But when I think about it and take a step back, I remember how amazing life truely is and maybe, just maybe, I like being unperfect."
"I'm sorry, I have to say it, but you look like you're sad. Your smile is gone; I've noticed it bad. The cure is if you let in just a little more love, I promise you this, a little's enough."

"It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold. When it is summer in the light and winter in the shade."

"Laughter is timeless. Imagination has no age. And dreams are forever."
-Peter Pan

"Life in every word to the extent that it's absurd. There either is or is not. That's the way things are. The color of the day. The way it felt to be a child. The saltwater on your sunburnt legs. Sometimes the water is yellow, sometimes it's red. But what color it may be in memory, depends on the day. I'm not gonna tell you the story the way it happend. I'm gonna tell it the way I remember it..."

"Love is only for poets and dreams are for fools and on all beauty you'll find - time's always cruel."
-Magnet

"Therefore do not worry about tomorrw, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own!"
-Matthew 6:34
[[after all, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.]]

"Maybe some women aren't meant to be tamed. Maybe they're suppoesd to run wild until they find someone - just as wild - to run with."
-Sex and the City

"If you had a friend who was a tightrope walker, and you were walking down a sidewalk, and he fell, that would be completely unacceptable."
-Mitch Hedberg

"I want to be a race care passenger: just a guy who bugs the driver: "Say man, can I turn on the radio? You should slow down. Why do we gotta keep going in circles? Can I put my feet out the window? Man, you really like Tide..."
-Mitch Hedberg

"An escalator can never break. It can only become stairs. You would never see an "Escalator Temporarily Out of Order" sign, just "Escalator Temporarily Stairs. Sorry for the Convenience.""
-Mitch Hedberg

"If you're photographing in color, you show the color of their clothes. If you photograph in black and white, you show the color of their souls."

"The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism."
-Norman Vincent Peale

"Up to a point in a man's life is shaped by environment, heredity, and movements and changes in the world about him. Then there comes a time when it lies within his grasp to shape the clay of his life into the sort of thing he wishes to be. Only the weak blame their parents, their race, their times, lack of good fortune, or the quirks of fate. Everyone has it within his power to say, 'This I am today; that I will be tomorrow.'"
-Louis L'Amour

"Nothing is written in the stars. Not these stars, nor any others. No one controls your destiny."
-Princess Nastoya, Wicked

"Do you ever just put your arms out and just spin and spin and spin? Well, that's what love is like. Everything inside of you tells you to stop before you fall, but for some reason you just keep going."
-Practical Magic

"What I'm fighting for is far worth more than silver and gold."
-Matiyashu