"Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition, there is no shame in being wrong, only failing to correct out mistakes."--George Soros

"Life is at it's best when it's shaken and stirred.--F. Paul Facult

"He who can't endure the bad will not live to see the good." --Yiddish proverb

"In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back."--Charlie Brown

"Smile, and the world smiles with you, frown and you stand alone."--Unknown

"You've got to stand for something or you'll fall for anything."--Unknown

"If you smile at me I will understand because that's something everybody everywhere does in the same language."--Unknown

"Hugging is healthy. It helps the body's immune system. It keeps you healthier, it cures depression, it reduces stress, it induces sleep, it's invigorating, it's rejuvenating, it has no unpleasant side effects, and hugging is nothing less than the miracle drug. Hugging is all natural. It is organic, naturally sweet, no pesticides, no preservatives, no artificial ingredients and it is a 100% wholesome. Hugging is practically perfect.There are no movable parts, no batteries to wear out, no periodic check-ups, low energy consumption, high energy yield, inflation proof, non-fattening, no monthly payments, no insurance requirements, theft-proof,nontaxable, non polluting and, of course, fully returnable.”--unknown

"Life is not measured by the moments of breath you take but by the breath taking moments."--Unknown

"I have been so afraid of the bad things that I missed the good.”--`Now and Then

"Sometimes it seems we're all trapped in some sort of prison and the crime is how much we hate ourselves. But when you really look closely, people are so strange and complicated that they are beautiful. . .possible even me."--MSCL

"Remember life only comes around once. Its precious."--Unknown

"Life is an art, and you are the artist."--Unknown

"You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think."--Christopher Robin

"A little consideration, a little thought for others, makes all the difference."--Pooh and his friends

"A smile is when your inner beauty comes outside."--Ziggy

"No one can give you better advice than yourself.”--Cicero

"The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.”--Bishop W.C. Magee

"If you don't like what you see close your eyes and walk away."--Unknown

"God will never give you something that you couldn't handle."--Unknown

"When one door closes another opens, but we often look so long and regretfully upon the closed door that we fail to see the one that has opened for us."--Alexander Graham Bell

"First I was dying to finish highschool and start college. Then I was dying to finish college and start working. Then I was dying to marry and have children. And then I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school, so I could return to work. And then I was dying to retire. And now I am dying. . .and suddendly I realized that I forgot to live." --Unknown

"You can't wait around cause you'll never know what hand you're going to get dealt next. You learn to take life as it comes to you. To make each day count."--Titanic

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on."--Robert Frost

"Never let the fear of striking out get in the way."--Babe Ruth

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

" Weeping willow with your tears running down, why do you always weep and frown? Is it because he left you one day? Is it because he could not stay? On your branches he would swing. Do you long for the happiness that day would bring? He found shelter in your shade. You thought his laughter would never fade. Weeping Willow, stop your tears, for there is something to calm your fears. You think death has ripped you forever apart, but I know he'll always be in your heart."- My girl (the movie)

"This life is a test. If this were an actual life, you would have received instructions."--MSCL

"Instead of changing the world, people sit around and write notes about other people."--MSCL

"Laugh and the world laughs with you. Cry and you get all wet."--unknown

"You know how sometimes, like when someone dies, you're sad and it's okay to be sad? But than there are other times when you're supposed to be happy, but your sad anyway. And that's even worse than the times when you're allowed to be sad."--Unknown

"We live, we die and make a lot of mistakes in between..." --Joey Dawson's Creek

“When you are right no one remembers; when your wrong no one forgets.”--Irish proverb

"You have to laugh at yourself...'cause you'd cry your eyes out if you didn't.”--Indigo Girls

“Life lives, life dies. Life laughs, life cries. Life gives up, and life tries. But life looks different through everyone's eyes.”--unknown

“Everybody has a disability. It’s what we do with our abilities that count.”--unknown

“A chuckle a day may not keep the doctor away, but it sure does make those times in life's waiting room a little more bearable.”-- Anne Wilson Schaef

“Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.” -- Soren Kirkegaard

“The best way to cheer yourself up is to cheer someone else up.”-- Mark Twain

“The difficulty in life is the choice.”-- George Moore

“Don't just stand there - do something.”--unknown

“Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and discover they were the big things.”--unknown

"The best thing you've ever done for me is to help me take my life less seriously. It's only life after all."--Indigo Girls

"It takes years to build up trust, but only seconds to destroy it."--Unknown

"Its not what you have in your life, but who you have in your life that counts."--Unknown

"You shouldn't compare yourself to the best others can do, but to the best you can do."--Unknown

"It's not what happens to people that's important, it's what they do about it."-Unknown

"No matter how you slice it, there are always two sides."--Unknown

"It is a lot easier to react, then it is to think."-Unknown

"Learning to forgive takes practice."--Unknown

"Maturity has more to do with what types of experiences you've had, and what you've learned from them, and less to do with how many birthdays you've celebrated."--Unknown

"Our backgrounds and circumstances may have influenced who we are, but we are responsible for who we become."--Unknown

"You shouldn't be so eager to find out a secret. It could change your life forever."--Unknown

"Two people can look at the exact same thing, and see something totally different."--Unknown

"Your life can be changed in a matter of hours by people who don't even know you."--Unknown

"The people you care most about in life are taken from you too soon."--Unknown

"It's hard to determine where to draw the line between being nice and not hurting people's feelings, and standing up for what you believe."--Unknown

"No matter how fast or how far you go, you can't outrun your problems."--Unknown

"Some people believe that holding on and hanging in there are signs of great strength...however, there are times when it takes far more strength just to let go."--Unknown

"We're all pretty bizarre. Some of us are just better at hiding it."--The Breakfast club

“Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not.”-- George Bernard Shaw

“Don't take life too seriously. Noone gets out alive.”--Bugs Bunny

“I'd rather have a moment of wonderful than a lifetime of nothing special.”--Steel Magnolias

"If you always tell the truth, you won't have to remember anything."--Mark Twain

“Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once and a while, you could miss it."--Ferris Buller's Day Off

" God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the strength to change those I can, and the wisdom to know the difference."--unknown

" Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die."--311

" Life's a bowl of punch. Go ahead and spike it."--311

"I have this theory - that if we're told we're bad, then that's the only ideal we'll ever have."--Jewel

"A baby is God's opinion that life should go on."-Carl Sandburg

“You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing."--Michael

" We can't all be heroes. Someone has to stand on the curb and cheer when they all go bye."--Will Rogers

"Everything changes eventually. That's just the way life is, and you have no control over it...Like, suddenly people who you think are always going to be there, they diasppear...You know, people die and they move away...and they grow up." - Joey from Dawson's Creek

"I'm afraid I can't explain myself, sir. Because I'm not myself, you know." Alice in wonderland

"I like nonsense; it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities - Dr. Seuss

“We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.”--Aesop

“You’re never fully dressed without a smile.”--Annie

“I’d rather laugh with the sinners, then cry with the saints; The sinners are much more fun-”--Billy Joel

"It is never too late to be what you might have been."--George Elliot

"I don't know the secret to success but the key to failure is to try to please everyone."--Bill Cosby

"When one door of happiness closes, another opens;but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us."--Helen Keller

Sometimes a winner is just a dreamer who never gave up."--Unknown

"Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes."--Oscar Wilde

"All our dreams can come true - if we have the courage to pursue them."--Walt Disney

"Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens to you." --Aldous Huxley "I've always wante to be somebody, but I see now I should have been more specific." --Lily Tomlin "Anyone who says sunshine brings happiness has never danced in the rain."--unknown

"Live you own life, for you die your own death."--unknown

"Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end."--Semisonic

"Heroes get remembered, but legends never die."--The Sandlot

“She's been everybody elses girl, maybe one day she’ll be her own.”--Tori Amos

“People always say you should be yourself, like yourself is this definite thing, like a toaster, or something. Like you can know what it is, even. But every so often, I'll have like -- a moment, where being myself, and my life right where I am is, like, enough.” --"My So-Called Life

“You're so beautiful, it hurts to look at you.”--My So Called Life

“Maybe I’m crazy but laughing out loud makes the pain pass by."--DMB

“Life's too short so love the one you got cause you might get run over or you might get shot.”--Sublime

“You don't get to choose how you're going to die or when. You can only decide how you're going to live.”--Joan Baez

"All my life I've wanted to be normal, but I've come to realize 'normal' is what you make of it."

Practicing only makes you good at practicing. Experience makes perfect."

"If you are going to walk on thin ice, you might as well dance."

"We can only appreciate the miracle of a sunrise if we have waited in darkness."--unknown

Blessed are we who can laugh at ourselves for we shall never cease to be amused."--unknown

"Kids today don't have much hope... Actors and athletes are fine, but kids need to see who the real heroes are."--unknown

"If you're going to be able look back on something and laugh at it, you might as well laugh about it now."

"Somewhere, over the rainbow, skies are blue. And the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true."

"It takes a mature person to walk away but it takes an even more mature person not to say anything in the first place."

"Don't underestimate the value of doing nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering."

This morning I woke up with this feeling I didn't know how to deal with, and so I just decided to myself I'd hide it to myself and never talk about it... I don't know what I'm up against. I don't know what it's all about. I got so much to think about.”

"If they give you ruled paper, write the other way."

She just goes a little mad sometimes. We all go a little mad sometimes. Haven't you? -"Pyscho"

"Nothing on earth makes life more worthwhile than the sunshine and warmth of a beautiful smile." ~Helen S. Rice

"We can't all be heroes, someone has to sit on the curb and cheer when they go by." --Will Rogers

"Where you sit in the cafeteria is way too important. You feel like it's going to have this effect on your whole future. Everyone has their own section- the jocks,the druggies, the nerds, the Models Inc. group. And if you don’t have a section? You're like...nobody." ~ang

"Don’t hate me. Because I almost hate myself, and if you did too, that would like,put me over the top. Or is it the bottom ?"~ang

"Sometimes it seems as if we are trapped in prisons and the crimes is how much we hate ourselves." ~MSCL

"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

"You cant be responsible for the whole world." ~MSCL

"The event's of our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves, they find their own order." -Eudora Welty

"I laugh, because I must not cry." --Abraham Lincoln

Which is worse: a truth that draws a tear to one's face or a lie that draws a smile for awhile?"--Miracle on 34th Street

"As we grow it is harder to just believe.It is not because we want to, it is because we can't. To much has happened to us, for us to just believe."--Now and Then

"Its like I always say, your majesty. . .children got to be free to lead their own lives."--The Little Mermaid

. "People make a great fuss over a comet in the sky or a total eclipse but never notice a sunset."

"Never let your heart die, always remain a kid."~Unknown

"Look, I know that your head must be spinning right now and I don't know, and maybe one of the things your thinking is how unfair it is that right now when you need to talk to someone the most your sitting next to is more than a semi-stranger. But, I mean we always have something to say to each other even if our conversations are more banter than real talk, fun and sweet and everything. What I'm trying to say is if you want to talk to somebody about this, I mean really talk to somebody, even though I know we've never done that before, I'd really like to be that person."

"True friendship is like sound heath, the value of it is seldom until it is lost." --Charles Caleb Colton

"True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable."--David Tyson Gentry

"The richer your friends, the more they will cost you."--Marbury

"Friends are needed for both joy and for sorrow."--Samuel Paterson

"The time to make friends is before you need them."--unknown

"One who looks for a friend without faults will have none."--Unknown

"The only way to find a friend is to be one.”--unknown

"A true friend is someone who is there for you when they'd rather be somewhere else."--unknown

"A true friend will never stand in your way unless you are on the way down."--unknown

"Old friends leave, time flies by, memories are forever, they never die." --unknown

"Friendship is like money, easier made than kept."--unknown

"Friends show us who we are, where we've been, and where we're going."--unknown

"In the cookies of life, friends are the chocolate chips."--unknown

"If you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, then you haven't really learned anything at all."--unknown

"Boyfriends come and go but best friends are forever."--unknown

"Best friends never tell each other that they're best friends, they just know."--unknown

"Friendship is like china : costly and rare. It can easily be mended but the scratches are always there."--unknown

"It’s amazing when total strangers become the best of friends, but sad when the best of friends become total strangers.”--unknown

"Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born."--Anais Nin

"A friend loves at all times." --Proverbs 17:17

“And we'll always be friends...forever, won't we?”--Todd from "The Fox and the Hound"

“We need the whole world as a friend.”--Herbert Hoover

“Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.”--Cicero

“Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Just walk beside me and be my friend.”--Albert Camus

"How far we travel in life matters far less than those we meet along the way."--unknown

"Everyone hears what you have to say. Friends listen to what you say. Best friends listen to what you don't say."--unknown

"Love may be what keeps the world spinning 'round, but friendship is what keeps us from throwing ourselves off it."--David R. Mead

“Even the ability to hate demands a certain kind of friendship.”--FD Roosevelt

“It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.”--Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.”--Octavia Butler

“Be slow to fall into friendship, but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.” --Socrates

“God defend me from my friends, from my enemies I can defend myself.”--unknown

“The death of a friend is equivalent to the loss of a limb.”--German proverb

“A friend is one who believes in you when you cease to believe in yourself.”--unknown

“...no man is useless while he has a friend.”--Robert Louis Stevenson

“The friendship that can cease has never been real.”--Saint Jerome

"A friend is someone who reaches for your hand, but touches your heart."-- The Little Prince

“A friend is a gift you give yourself.”--Robert Louis Stevenson

“It takes a lot of understanding, time and trust to gain a close friendship with someone. As I approach a time of my life of complete uncertainty, my friends are my most precious asset.”--Eryn Miller

“A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.”--Bernard Meltzer

“Friendship bridges the gap between what things are and what they could be.”--Roger Holmes

“True friendship brings sunshine to the shade, and shade to the sunshine.”--Thomas Burke

“Friendship is a horizon--which expands whenever we approach it.”--E.R. Hazlip

"I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar." -- Robert Brault

"There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love."--William Hazlitt

"Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods."--Aristotle

“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.”--Carl Jung

“What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.”--Aristotle

“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 kindness, there is at last one which makes the heart run over.” --James Boswell

“The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing, and face us with the reality of our powerlessness. That is the friend who cares.” --Henri Nouwen

“Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.”--Oliver Wendell Holmes

Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I may not forget you.--William Arthur

“Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world."--Eleanor Roosevelt

"Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying, but the never needing to say is what counts." --Margaret Lee Runbeck

"I think the hardest part of being a woman is having women friends."--unknown

"I think the hardest part of being a woman is not being able to just be friends with a man."--How to Make an American Quilt

"A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature."--Ralph Waldo Emerson

“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

"When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is."--Michael de Saintamo

“One can't complain. I have friends. Somebody spoke to me only yesterday.”--Eeyore from Winnie-the-Pooh

"No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever."--unknown

"Piglet sidled up behind Pooh. Pooh,' he whispered. 'Yes, piglet?' 'Nothing,' said Piglet, taking Pooh's paw. 'I just wanted to be sure of you.”--AA Milne

"Never shall I forget the days I spent with you. Continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours."--Ludwig van Beethoven

"Do everything. Love as much as you can. it may hurt but it helps us grow. Give all you have...you may be poor but you will be content. Always forgive....your heart can not afford not to. Teach what you know and learn what you don't. Stay open to all you can, But most importantly, Dream your dream and then capture it..."--unknown

“Don't be dismayed at good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.”--Richard Bach

"You have been my friends, "replied Charlotte, "that in itself is a tremendous thing...”--E.B. White

"There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity." --Samuel Johnson

"We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life." --Edwin Markham

“Friends will praise you when you're right, but it takes a true friend to tell you when you're wrong.”--JB.

"Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes."--unknown

"Men and women can't be friends because the sex part always gets in the way." --When Harry Met Sally

“Finally, though, the jerk noticed her and came over and said hello. You should've seen the way they said hello. You'd have thought they hadn't seen each other in twenty years. You'd have thought they'd taken baths in the same bathtub or something when they were little kids. Old buddies. It was nauseating. The funny part was, they probably met each other just once, at some phony party.”--Catcher in the Rye

"Be sure to put the knocker fairly low on the door, in case a very small friend drops by......."--Pooh

"Friendship is a very comforting thing."--Pooh

“God saw a tear and kissed it away with the smile of a friend.” --unknown

"One who neglects old friends for the sake of new ones often loses both."--unknown

“Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.”--George Washington “ “Stay” is a charming word in a friends vocabulary.”--Louisa May Alcott

“A friend I s not known until he is lost.”--Italian Proverb

“I wish I were a teddy bear. Everybody loves them, nobody cares how fat they are, and the older they get, the more they are worth.”--unknown

“There is no such thing as a self made man. We are made up of thousands of others. Everyone who has ever done a kind deed for us, or spoken a word of encouragement to us, has entered into the makeup of our character and of our thoughts, as well as our success.”-- George Matthew Adams

“A friend is a gift you give yourself.”--Robert Louis Stevenson

“A friends eye is a good mirror.”--Irish Proverb

“It takes a lot of understanding and time and trust to gain a close friendship with someone. As I approach a time of my life of complete uncertainty, my friends are my most precious asset.”--unknown

“You will find that if you share your friends burden, you will both walk a little straighter.”--unknown

“A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him, I may think aloud.”--Ralph Waldo Emerson.”

“We must learn to live together as brothers, or perish together as fools.”--Martin Luther King Jr

“Odd how much it hurts when a friend moves away and leaves behind only silence.”--P. Brown

“There is nothing more precious in the world then the feeling of being wanted.”--Diana Doris

“A real friend is one that walks in when the rest of the world walks out.”--Walter Mitchell

"A friend is a person with whom you dare to be yourself."-- Frank Crane

"Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures."--Seneca

We started as total strangers and ended as life time friends. We shared a season for our lives, but every season has to end."--Unknown

"Lean on me, when you're not strong, I'll be you're friend, I'll help you carry on. So it won't be long, 'til you have a friend, someone to lean on. Lean on me.”--unknown

"Every now and then we find a special friend, Who never lets us down. Who understands it all, reaches out each time we fall. You're the best friend that I found; I know that you can't stay, But part of you will never go away; Your heart will always stay. If you should lose your way, think back on yesterday. Remember me this way."--Casper

"Lets make a pact, all for one and one for all. We'll be friends for ever."--Now and Then

"Friends are people who tolerate you when you are intolerable."--unknown

“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 serious of kindness’ there is at last one which makes the hart run over."--James Bosnell

"A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future and accepts you today just the way you are."--Unknown

"Friendship: It involves many things, but, above all, the power of going out of one's self and seeing and appreciating whatever is...loving in another."--Thomas Hughes

"Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions."--Samuel Johnson

"It's the friends that you can call at four in the morning that matter."--Unknown

'Silence makes the real conversation between friends. Not the saying, but the never needing to say is what counts."--Unknown

"We have been friends together in sunshine and shade."--Caroline Stein

“A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be. A friend is a living treasure, and if you have one, you have one of the most valuable gifts in life.”--unknown

“It's so much friendlier with two.”--Winnie the pooh

“For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather; to cheer one on the tedious way, to fetch one if one goes astray, to lift one if one totters down, to strengthen whilst one stands.”-- Christina Rossetti

“People say true friends must always hold hands, but true friends don't need to hold hands because they know the other hand will always be there."--Unknown"

"Once in a while you meet someone, and soon you both discover the two of you are truly something special to each other... you share your thoughts and feelings so relaxed, so openly, and right away you know your friendship's truly meant to be."---Gary Harrington

"A friend drops their plans when you're in trouble, shares joy in your accomplishments, feels sad when you're in pain. A friend encourages your dreams and offers advice--but when you don't follow it, they still respect and love you."--Doris Wild Helmering

"My best friend and I can do anything or nothing, and still have the best of time."--Unknown

"True friendship continues to grow, even over the longest distance. Same goes for true love."--Unknown

"No matter how good a friend is, they're going to hurt you every once in a while, and you must forgive them for that."--Unknown

"We don't have to change friends if we understand that friends change."--Unknown

"Even when you think you have no more to give, when a friend cries out to you, you will find the strength to help."--Unknown

"My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life."--Lee Iacocca

"You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you."--Dale Carnegie

"Without humor life sucks. Without courage life is hard. Without love life is hopeless. Without friends life is impossible." --unknown

“Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.”-- Kahlil Gibran

"Never kiss a friend. If you have deeper feelings, never reveal them. You will lose that friend forever..."--unknown

"Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you."-- Elbert Hubard

"I get by with a little help from my friends."-- John Lennon

"It takes a lot of understanding, time and trust to gain a close friendship with someone. As I approach a time in my life of complete uncertainty, my friends are my most precious asset."--unknown

"Always remember to forget the friends that proved untrue but never forget to remember those that stuck by you. Always remember to forget the times that made you sad. but never forget to remember the ones that made you glad.”--unknown

"When you hear a kind word spoken about a friend, tell him so." --H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

“It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.”--William Blake

"A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words."--unknown

"A mere friend will agree with you, but a real friend will argue."--unknown

“Ill love you forever, Ill like you for always, As long as smoke rises, my best friend you’ll be.”--camp

"True friends are like the ivy and the wall; together they stand and together they fall."--unknown

"It's no good trying to keep up old friendships. It's painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing to do is to face it."--unknown

"It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter."--unknown

“ My friend, if I could give you one thing in life, it would be the ability to see yourself the way that others see you. Then you could see what a special person you are…”--unknown

"It's probably the wrong time to tell you this. But, um, well, maybe it's the perfect time. I realize how incredibly confusing things are between us right now. I can't even begin to explain our relationship. You probably can't either. But, um, I just want you to know that, um, if you ever need me, I'll always be here for you. All you ever have to do is ask."--unknown

"I'd rather be your lover than your friend, but I'd rather be your friend than your nothing."--unknown

“Things are never quite as scary when you have a best friend.”--Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes

"How do you leave the past behind when it keeps finding ways to get to your heart?"--Rent

"Ya know, you think you know someone and then, like all of the sudden, almost out of nowhere, you realize you didn't have a clue. You start to wonder how you ever called this person your friend and what the hell you were thinking."--unknown

“When your the best of friends having so much fun together, your not even aware your such a fun pair, you’re the best of friends.”--The Fox and the Hound

“Where were you when you wrote 'best friends forever' in your high school yearbooks? Where will you be when you realize how hard a promise it is to keep?”--unknown

UPDATES!!!!! "I'll be walking one day, down a street far away and see a face in the crowd: Smile. Knowing you made me laugh, hearing sweet echoes of you from the past, I will remember you."-Amy Grant "'It doesn't matter how many mommies or how many daddies you family has,' Molly says to the children. 'It doesn't matter if your family has sisters or brothers or cousins or grandmothers or grandfathers or uncles or aunts. Each family is special. The most important thing about a family is that all the people in it love each other.'"-Leslea Newman "Can miles separate you from friends? If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?"-Richard Bach "So we must love, while these moments are still called today, take part in the pain of this passion play, stretching our youth as we must, until we are ashes to dust, until time makes history of us."-Emily Saliers "What do you do when the only person that can stop you from crying is the one who's making you cry?"--unknown "The worst way to miss someone is to have them sitting right next to you and know you can never have them."--unknown "Love was always the goal, and my point every step of the way was that nothing is wrong with love, no matter what flavor it comes in."-Ani DiFranco "How could you simply be friends with someone when every time you look at them, all you think about is how much more you really want them?"--Dawsons Creek “I'd like to think I'll be happy again, but I really need to stop and cry right now, and sometimes I wish I could scream at you, and just show you what you do to me.”--unknown "There are some people that if they don't know, you can't tell ‘em." -Louis Armstrong "Pain is nature's way of saying 'Don't do that stupid.”--unknown "Why is it that hate comes out so easily, yet...love? It gets trapped inside."--unknown "The best relationships--friendship and otherwise--tend to be those where you can say anything to the other person but you don't have to say everything."-Audrey Beth Stein "You've got to dance like nobody's watching and love like it's never going to hurt."--unknown “I’ll love you like the stars above,gonna love you till I die”--Indigo girls “If you've got a one in a million girl, don't let her get away cause the next one in a million girl is a million girls away.” -Liz Phair “Men always want to be a woman's first love. Women have a more subtle instinct; what they like to be is a man's last romance.”--unknown “Sex is never innocent. It’s intense, its passionate, and sometimes it can be life altering-but it is never innocent.”--dawsons creek “I'd rather be rejected than used because they both amount to the same thing in the end, but being used takes a lot longer.”--unknown “I was born when you kissed me. I died when you left. I lived a few weeks while you loved me.”--unknown “Your picture's in my wallet, and I'm sitting on it - if that isn't love I don't know what is.”--unknown "Everything i've ever done has been for you, anything special in me is because of you, anything good in me, is you." -movie: Great Expectations- Angela: "Its such a lie that you should do what's in your heart. If we all did what was in our hearts, the whole world would come to a hault." --My so-called life- "I will give you the space you need but that's not going to change my feelings for you. Nothing will ever change that.”--unknown "You've spent your whole life running and running...trying to catch up with something that has never been there for you. And all you've done is go farther and farther away from the precious love that's been waiting for you all the time."--unknown "If your feelings for me are true, you'll wait...and we can walk through this world together."--unknown "Don't you understand?? Everything I've ever done has been for you...anything special in me is because of you...anything good in me is you." - Great Expectations "Looking back, I have this regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so." -David Grayson “See, there's thinking about him, right? Which is what I do. All the time. It's like an obsession. It keeps me going. Like I need that to get through the day because it's an obsession. And if you make it real-it's not the same. It's not yours anymore. So I don't know what to do, because maybe if I ruin it tonight, maybe I'd be better off just having the fantasy..."--My So-Called Life "You shouldn't be going out with someone just to say you're going out with them. You're going out with them, hopefully, because you enjoy who they are and they enjoy who you are. You have to be true to yourself, and I think that if you're not yourself anymore and you're not happy with what you're doing, then you've crossed the line." --unknown “Wherever you go, whatever you do...I will be right her waiting for you"--Richard Marx “I would not leave you in your times of trouble. We never could have come this far. I took the good times, I'll take the bad times, I'll take you just the way you are." -Billy Joel "I like to fall in love with my close guy friends. It makes things more interesting, don’t ya think?" -- unknown "If you really love someone write their initials in a circle, not a heart because a heart can be broken, but a circle goes on forever."--unknown "We may take different paths, we may get caught up in different aspects of life... but our love will always be there." -S.A. Sheade "Sometimes new love comes between old friends. Sometimes the best love was the one that was always there."--"Reality Bites" "There is fate, but it only takes you so far. Because once you're there, it's up to you to make it happen."--"Can't Hardly Wait" “I wish I'd seen you as a little girl, without your armor to fend off the world...I would have kept you underneath my wing...I would protect you from everything." -Tonic "I love you. Not the kind they taught you about and I didn't know this either but love doesn't make things nice. It breaks your heart. It makes things a mess, we aren't here to make things perfect. The snowflakes are perfect. The stars are perfect, not us. We are here to ruin ourselves and to break our hearts and love the wrong people and die. The storybooks are bullshit." --Nicholas Cage in 'Moonstruck' "It's weird, I mean he's a dream, a fantasy, and if he becomes real, like he’s not mine anymore." ~MSCL "What can I say? I am going away. I can't say I'll see you tomorrow for there will be many days to follow of lonliness and tears. I know someday we'll meet again, I know that this is not the end. I have so much I need to say, but today I will leave you with I will miss you and I love you."--unknown "If missing me is hard to do - baby you should try missing you."--unknown "If you love someone enough, you can still hear the laughter when they're gone."--unknown "I know somebody and they cry for you, they stay awake at night and dream of you, I bet you never even known they do, but somebody's crying." ~Chris Iscak "Five minutes ago I was so miserable I was wishing I'd never been born and now I wouldn't change places with an angel."~Anne Shirly from "Anne of Green Gables" "I remember thinking I'll go on forever knowing I'll see you again. But I know the touch of you is hard to remember. But like that touch I've known no other."--unknown "There's still a part of me that wants to take you in my arms, just like it used to be. But I've changed." In Love and War "Even when I pour my heart out to you, I'm not sure it shows, that I love you more than you'll ever know." --unknown “if you were the last tear in my eye,I'd never cry again, for fear of losing you.”--unknown “Maybe we were meant to be.... maybe he just doesn't realize it yet.”--unknown "Just because something ends doesn't mean it never should have been."--Stefan Cassadine "Love can make you do crazy things. It can make you proud, it can make you sorry." -Wonder Years "After awhile you learn that what you really are is all the experiences and all the thoughts you've ever had and all the people who have touched your life, no matter how briefly." -Kevin, Wonder Years “I understand with love comes pain, but why did I have to love so much?” --unknown “Maybe I could have loved you better. Maybe you should have loved me more. Maybe our hearts were just next in line. Maybe everything breaks sometime." -Jewel, Everything Breaks “You are one of the best things that's ever happened to me. You're my love and my best friend. And every day that goes by, it seems like I discover something new about you to love. It's incredible to me how one person can make such a big difference in my life. You touch me in a way no one else ever has and give me so many reasons to smile. I've never been so happy...and I've never been so much in love." --unknown "I love you smile at me, I love the way your hands reach out and hold me near....I believe this is heaven to no one else but me." -Sarah McLachlan "If we don't feel love with our heart, then how come that's where it hurts when someone doesn't love you back?"-Jodie Beerman “You know you love someone when you want them to be happy even if their happiness means that you're not part of it.”--unknown “Never leave the ones you love without telling them you care.”--unknown “The beginning is scary; the end is usually sad, but it's what's in the middle that should count."-Hope Floats “I was there when she told him that in all her 13 years no boy had ever loved her and that it was a pity to leave this world without knowing love.” -narrator, And of Clay Are We Created "I never wanted to love you, I only wanted to love and not be blamed. Let me go. You should know I'm not ashamed to have loved you, to love you more than I meant to...here we stand- take my hand. God, I'm distressed. How I love you...I never wanted to love you. I never wanted till death do us part. Condescend. Stay my friend. How do I start not to love you?"--William Finn "I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken-and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best then mend it and see the broken places for as long as I lived. I'm too old to believe in such sentimentalities as clean slates and starting all over. I'm too old to shoulder the burden of constant lies that come with living in polite disillusionment. I couldn't live with you and lie to you and I certainly couldn't lie to myself. I can't even lie to you now. I wish I could care what you do or where you go, but I can't."-- Gone With The Wind "You don't love someone because of their looks or their clothes or their cars. you love them because they sing a song that nobody but you can understand.” -James from Secret Vampire “It's curious how when you're in love, you yearn to go about doing acts of kindness to everybody.”--unknown “Sometimes you meet somebody and you know that whatever you did before, it must have been right...nothing could've been too bad or gone too far wrong because it led you to this person.”--unknown "I KNOW BY NOW THAT YOU'LL ARRIVE BY THE TIME I STOP WAITING." -- BJORK "What do you mean, you 'don't know how to love'? Do you think any of us know how to love? Do you think anybody would ever do anything if they waited until they knew how to love? Do you think people would even get out of bed in the morning if they waited until they knew how to love?"--Rebecca Wells “ Have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tries, and a touch that never hurts.”-- Dickens~ "How do you tell some one you love them when you don't know what they feel?" “You make me think about things I never think about.Not by what you say, but just how you look at me and then I wonder, what are you thinking?”--unknown "We say we love flowers, yet we pluck them. We say we love trees, yet we cut them down. And people still wonder why some are afraid when told they are loved." "I am looking for someone, who can take as much as I give,/ Give back as much as I need,/ And still have the will to live."--Amy Ray “Just think about what you and I have been through and tell me why I should not be afraid.”--unknown “Let the world stop turning, let the sun stop burning, let them tell me love's not worth going through. If it all falls apart, I will know deep in my heart, the only dream that mattered had come true...in this life I was loved by you." -Bette Midler “And always remember this: never say I love you, if you don't really care-never talk about feelings if they aren't really there- never touch a life if you mean to break a heart- never say you're going to if you don't plan to start- never look me in the eye if all you do is lie- never say hello if you really mean goodbye." --unknown “I didn't ask for it to be over, but then again, I never asked for it to begin.”--unknown “believe me i cant help but love you, and if I said too much, sorry, but i dont regret a single word.”--unknown “He's the one who'll be missing me,and I'll only miss who I wanted him to be.”--unknown “It still hasn't sunk in yet......I haven't totally realized that he's pushed me out of his heart forever....but I'm not sure I want it to hit me fully yet because I know that when it does, I will feel pain like nothing I have ever felt before......"--unknown “Once in awhile, right in the middle of an ordinary life, love gives us a fairy tale.”--unknown “It's so crazy, you walked into the room that day, just like every other day...except this time...my heart skipped a beat."-Allison Mosher "Why is it that I can tell you everything i'm feeling,except how i feel about you?"-Allison Mosher “Falling for someone the first time is easy...it's the second time around, after you have fallen and trusted someone to catch you and they didn't...when it becomes difficult to let yourself fall again.”--unknown “when i saw u there dancing, with your hands in your pockets and your face all cool, i thought of the moment we first kissed. the one fleeting moment our lips touched. and i saw your eyes that once looked at me yearning and searching. now, they have a cold icy stare and i think to myself, 'i've come a long way.' b/c even if at once i thought u were worth it, u arent now. but i would still give anything to have one last dance..."--unknown “It's the heart that's afraid of breaking that never learns to dance It's the dream that's afraid of waking that never takes the chance It's the one who won't be taken who cannot seem to give And the soul that's afraid of dying that never learns to live” “When you love someone, they become a part of you. Maybe that's why when you lose someone it hurts, because you are losing a part of you.”--unknown "True love never leaves the heart...So, if you don't love me now, you didn't love me then. "--unknown "The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected. Maybe they always have been and will be. Maybe we've lived a thousand lives before this one and in each of them we've found each other."--Unknown “What do I have to do to make you love me? And if I can't make you love me, what do I have to do to forget about you?" --Stabbing Westward “too many of us stay walled because we are afraid of being hurt. We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all”--eleanor roosevelt "If you love someone, never give them up without a fight."--unknown “It' s the hardest thing I'll ever have to do, to turn around and walk away pretending I don't love you....”--unknown “Here I am, there he is, we're so far apart, let's just pretend... that I've never been in his hands, in his heart, Why can't we just start all over again?”--unknown “Of course you're gonna get your heart broken. And it isn't just gonna happen once, but a lot. That's just part of growing up, and it makes you stronger. Then you can handle the pain even better the next time. You may not get through it yourself, but your friends will help you to do it. And you'll be a stronger person because of it. Then, one day, someone will come along, and it will all pay off, and no one will ever break your heart again.”--unknown "It's hard to believe that the moment which once brought smiles to my lips now brings tears to my eyes."--Unknown “I knew I was in love when I looked in his eyes and knew that was the only place I ever wanted to be.”--unknown "I want the smile on your face to let me know that you need me, that there's a truth in your heart saying you'll never leave me and the touch of your hand says you'll catch me whenever I fall"--unknown “You cannot understand how much it hurts to lose somebody you love until it happens to you.”--unknown “ The worst thing you can do for love is to deny it; so when you find that special someone, don't let anyone or anything stand in your way.”--unknown “In every life there is one great love, and one unforgettable heartbreak.”--unknown "After all my heart has put me through, I know that it's going to be safe with you"--unknown “I risked everything before. I trusted him comepletly, only to get hurt. Now, I have a chance to risk everything all over again, but I dont know if my heart can take it.”--unknown "If you get there before I do, don't give up on me. I'll meet you when my chores are through. I don't know how long I'll be, but I am not going to let you down. Darling wait and see. So, between now and then, 'til I see you again. I'll be loving you-Loving me." ~Loving me. "People are afraid of themselves, of their own reality; their feelings most of all. People talk about how great love is, but that's bullshit. Love hurts. Feelings are disturbing. People are taught that pain is evil and dangerous. How can they deal with love if they're afraid to feel? Pain is meant to wake us up. People try to hide their pain. But they're wrong. Pain is something to carry, like a radio. You feel your strength in the experience of pain. It's all in how you carry it. That's what matters. Pain is a feeling. Your feelings are a part of you. Your own reality. If you feel ashamed of them, and hide them, you're letting society destroy your reality. You should stand up for your right to feel your pain." -Jim Morrison "Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful.” -Thich Nhat Hanh These have been the best days of my life-these four years I've spent here-they've probably been the best years I may ever have. But, they're over now. And I have to move on. But I'll never forget anything that happened, it's welded into my memory, because only there can I truly spend forever. Guys- they promise you the world. But how many girls do you see toting around life-size globes? You don't. In fact, I don't even want the world. I just want to BE his world. And if that's asking too much, I would just like to be IN his world....or at the very least, within his field of view. "In your black and white world-you see things a different way-and that is with only one solution-the right one. But mine is different-I see mine in gray-where there are many other options and harder decisions to make-and that is what made me fall in love with you and that is what is tearing us apart." "That day we promised each other that no matter what, that we'd always be together. It was a promise full of passion and truth and wisdom. It was the kind of promise that can only come from the hearts of the very young." A friend is always good to have, but a lover's kiss is better than angels raining down on me." - Dave Matthews "Don't wait till the good people in your life are walking out to tell them how much they mean to you." "Missing someone gets easier every day; because even though it's one more day since you last saw them, it's one less day until you will see them again." "But the thing is, that was all we did. Maybe it was happening too fast. Maybe we wanted to hold on to what we had. Or maybe we both knew there were other things we had to find before we found each other. All we really knew for sure was, as we sat there, looking out over the lights of the town where we had grown up together, it all felt right. It all felt...perfect." "You are my best friend and my only true love and when I look into the sky you are what I'm thinking of." "That smile you give...God, every time I think I can live without you, you give me that smile. You really shouldn't do that to me." "I don't know whether to smile because you are my best friend or cry because that's all you are." "Falling in love is when you give a piece of your heart to someone else, and they give you a piece of theirs. Falling out of love is when the pieces don't fit." "I'm just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her." - Notting Hill "Watching you walk out of my life does not make me bitter or cynical about love. But rather makes me realize that if I wanted so much to be with the wrong person how beautiful it will be when the right one comes along." "Every couple nights or so you pop into my dreams. I just can't get rid of you like you got rid of me." --Ben Folds Five "Have you ever kissed someone? And felt that thing? That thing. That moment. You kiss someone and it's like the world around you gets all hazy and the only thing in focus is you and this one person. And you know that one person is the person you're meant to be kissing for the rest of your life. And for that one moment, you've been given this amazing gift and you want to laugh and cry all at the same time, because you're so lucky that you found it and so scared that it will go away..." - Never Been Kissed "You don't need to see me smile to know that I love you more than my life itself, and I don't need to see the tears forming in your eyes this very instant to know you feel it too." "I wanted to stay there, in that night... more than anything I wanted before. But I knew I couldn't. I was fifteen. I slept under a roof my father owned, in a bed my father bought. Nothing was mine, except my heart, and my fears. And my growing knowledge that not every road was going to lead home anymore." "Mr. Right is coming, but he's in Africa and he's walking." "I've noticed that being with you, I smile a little more often, I anger a little less quickly, The sun shines a little brighter and life is so much sweeter. For being with you takes me to a different place. A place called love." " "I don't like missing you, but I love having you to miss." "I can't say 'screw him' about the boy that I have come the closest to being fully in love with. I still would do anything for him and it sucks because I know he wouldn't do the same for me. That hurts more than anything, but I just can't stop loving him, believe me I've tried." Why can't I just show those guys out there what they don't have and can't have from those other girls? Why can't I show them that there are so many better girls out there…Like me. You...look at what you have done to me. I am 18 and already you have caused me to experience a lifetime of emotions...some I barely knew existed within me. I have felt anger and fear and jealousy and resentment all because of you. And yet somehow, I love you. I love you for all that you are and were and try to be. I love you because you gave me a part of you without ever knowing it and are still such a big part of my life. I love you for everything and more, and you have no idea how much you mean to me, nor do you care. So he doesn't like me. That's ok. I can deal. It was, after all, only a crush. I'll find someone new. I'll move on. Yeah right! Move on to a new part of him that I can obsess about! Move on to another "get him" scheme from Seventeen magazine. Moving on... ok. Sure. You try and get over a guy like him. Have you ever wondered where you'll be in 15 years? Have you ever imagined what your future holds? I see myself in a magnificent room with my family gathered around a fire. It's funny, I've never had a boyfriend, and yet I've already picked out my children's names. Little Max, Sam, and Nick laugh and play while my husband and I smile at each other from across the room, sharing that perfect love rarely found in life. My husband is tall and strong but also gentle and tender. His deep blue eyes are filled with love and devotion to God and his family. He is my comfort, my protector, my shoulder to cry on, the driving force that keeps me going, the keeper of my heart, my love, my only, my friend. It scares me how much he reminds me of someone who I thought was my friend. I could stare at him forever. He is absolutely oblivious to my attentions. But somehow, every time he happens to look my way, I feel for a split second that he sees me....Then I snap back to reality and realize that he is only looking past me...through me. And I feel cold again. How do you do that? How do you hurt me so badly without even trying? I don't understand you now, and I guess I never have. Maybe I never will. And maybe it's not your fault for hurting me. Maybe it's all my fault. I have always kind of thought that in the back of my head anyway. You just don't realize how much it hurts me to be around you sometimes, and to know that you don't care about me the way you used to. It hurts even worse to know that I still care about you in the same way. And sometimes I don't know what to do with myself. I find myself thinking about you when I should be thinking about something else, and wanting you when I should be wanting something else. Why is it that nothing ever happened between us? Maybe that was my fault, too. I just don't know anymore. I don't know where to go from here. And I don't know how to let you go. Maybe its not suppose to end up happily ever after...but for once just once i want to live in that fairy tale world and feel what it feels like to be loved.. Why do we always go out of our way to hold on to the wrong ones and let the right ones slip right through our fingers? That first kiss, it's the passionate one, it's the one fueled by desire and attraction and all that. But the second kiss is rational, you've got to think about it, worry and overanalyze. Most women, they prefer that first kiss, but I'm partial to the second one, because it's about something more. That's the best thing… It's something greater, it's real, and it will be so meaningful. I saw you with her the other day. And as I watched you with my fake smile, I could hear my heart break and I could feel it being torn apart. Because it was then that I realized that I was truly just a friend and that's all I'll ever be. *I want to reach out to him. I want to hold him. I want to love him. But I can't. Why is it that the one thing that I want is the one thing that scares me the most? I want to feel love, but yet, it terrifies me. Maybe the pain from yesterday is holding me back or could it just be me? How can you even try to say I'm sorry? You have put me through hell. You treated me like I was nothing and now you think you can just take it all back? I don't think so. I poured my heart out to you once and all you could do was turn your back. Don't even think for a moment that I'm going to take you back. I've been there…I've lived it before. I know now what it's like to be treated good and I'll damned if I'll ever go back to the likes of you. I've overanalyzed too much in my life. If someone leaves me, I put all my time and effort into figuring out why they left. This time I'm not. I'm letting him go with the grace of a woman… Don't get me wrong, it hurts like hell, but I guess this was supposed to happen. God gave him to me for a short time for a reason and as hard as it may be to move on, I can do it. I can do anything right now. I'm almost bulletproof… "Strangers are exciting, their mystery never ends, but there's nothing like looking at your own history in the faces of your friends."-Ani DiFranco "It's always good to know where a friend or relation is, whether you need them or whether you don't."-A. A. Milne "I'd like to be the sort of friend that you have been to me,/ I'd like to be the help that you've been always glad to be;/ I'd like to mean as much to you each minute of the day, as/ you have meant, old friend of mine, to me along the way."-Edgar A. Guest “Things are never quite as scary when you have a best friend."-Bill Watterson "Friends are angels sent down to earth to make good days and help us find our way."--unknown "The question is not would you die for a friend but do you have a friend worth dying for."--unknown "Friends are the pillars on your porch. Sometime they hold you up, sometimes they lean on you, and sometimes it's just enough to know that they are standing by."--unknown "We don't have to change friends if we understand that friends change."--unknown "hey kind friend, help me forget where i been...help me remember who i am"--indigo girls "True friends are the ones who never leave your heart, even if they leave your life for awhile. Even after years apart, you pick up with them right where you left off, and even if they die, they're never dead in your heart." --Sandy "Understand that friends come and go, but with a precious few you should hold on. The older you get, the more you need the people who knew you when you were young."--Mary Schmich “Though we drifted apart in distance I still think of you as being right here. And although we have many new friends, it is our friendship that means the most to me.”--unknown "Friendship is a joining of two souls. No matter how distant two friends grow, they have been forever altered by each other and they are very different then they would have been had they never met.”--unknown "As I look back on all that's happened...growing up, growing together, changing you, changing me--there were time when we dreamed together, when we laughed and cried together. As I look back on those days, I realize how much I truly miss you and how much I truly love you. The past may be gone forever...and whatever the future holds, our today’s make the memories of tomorrow. So, my lifetime friend, it is with all my heart that I send you my love, hoping that you'll always carry my smile with you, for all we have meant to each other and for whatever the future may hold."--C.L. Purdy " The friend who can be silent with us in our moments of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in times of grief and bereavement, - who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing, and face us with the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares." -Henri Nouwen "Sometimes I wish I were you, just so I could be friends with me." -Angelica Pickles "True friends are the ones who never leave your heart, even if they leave your life for awhile. Even after years apart, you pick up with them right where you left off, and even if they die, they're never dead in your heart."--unknown "Friendships begins because, even without words, we understand how someone feels."--Joan Walsh Anglund "For all the times I never said the things I should have, I thank you for all the times you understood."--Flavia Weedn "We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them."--Evelyn Waugh "Said Tigger to Pooh, 'I couldn't have done it without you.'" -Winnie the Pooh If you run away from everything that scares you, you're gonna miss out on some great things in life."--7th Heaven "We're only young once, but with humor, we can be immature forever."-Art Gliner “A smile can be contagious, it's hard to cry when your laughing. Notice when you laugh people turn and look to see who is laughing and even if they don't know what it is about they either smile or start laughing too. A smile is worth a million tears, Laughter is not only the best medicine, it is sometimes the cure. If you feel bad, smile and soon you feel better. Smile it keeps people wondering what you are up to."--Unknown "You can't wait around cause you'll never know what hand you're going to get dealt next. You learn to take life as it comes to you. To make each day count."--Titanic "Things don't change. You change your way of looking, that's all."--Carlos Castaneda "This is who I am, what I do and what I say. If you like it let it be, and if you don't please do the same."-Ani DiFranco "I'd rather be disliked for who I am than liked for who I'm not."--unknown "What if no one's watching? What if when we're dead, we are just dead? What if it's just us down here? What if God is just an idea someone put in your head?"-Ani DiFranco "I owe my life to people that I love."-Ani DiFranco "I always feel I have to take a stand, and there's always someone on hand to hate me for standing there/ I always feel I have to open my mouth, and every time I do, I offend someone somewhere..."-Ani DiFranco “There's a crowd of people harbored in each person-There are so many roles that we play."- Ani DiFranco "You told me to choose--vanilla or chocolate? I chose strawberry. How was I to know you hated the color pink? You asked my opinion--brown or black shoes? I said blue. How was I to know you hated the color blue? You wanted to meet my best friend. I brought her over. You walked away. How was I to know you hated the color black?"-Marisa Mabli "This is the time to remember, 'cause it will not last forever."--Billy Joel "Remember, it's better to be a has-been than a never-been."--Tiny Tim "Nobody ever seems to remember; life is a game we play."-Oasis "When you fall on somebody, it's not enough to say you didn't mean to; after all, he probably didn't mean to be beneath you."-Pooh's Little Instruction Book "To be remembered you must first touch someone's heart."-Mary M. Illigassch “If you aren't remembered...your life never mattered to anyone but you."-Mary M. Illigassch "Everyone is different. When you don't mind your difference it stops being a problem and becomes your distinction."-Joan Alden "It is better to remain silent and thought a fool, than to speak up and remove all doubt."-Abraham Lincoln "Remember the past...worry about the present, cause you can't rely on the future."--DeWanna Michelle Shelton "In this great future, you can't forget your past."-Bob Marley "Yes, there are two paths you can go by; but in the long run, there's still time to change the road you're on."-Led Zeppelin "Don't use time or words carelessly. Neither can be retrieved."-Life's Little Instruction Book "Never give up on anybody. Miracles happen every day."-Life's Little Instruction Book "Smile a lot. It costs nothing and is beyond price."-Life's Little Instruction Book "When someone hurts your feelings, it's unimportant unless you persist in remembering it."--unknown "'Do as I say, not as I do' is not an effective way of teaching anything."-John A. Garraty “What good is being the best, if it brings out the worst in you?”--Ladybugs "For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something."--unknown "If the truth were to be known, everyone would be wearing a scarlet letter of one form or another."-Nathaniel Hawthorne "The tragedy is not that things are broken. The tragedy is that they are not mended again."-Alan Paton, South African author "When you call someone's name, and they don't hear, you feel so lonely."-Angela on My So-Called Life "...some people actually cheat on the people that they're cheating with, which is like holding up a bank and then turning to the robber next to you and going, 'All right, give me everything you got, too.'"-Jerry Seinfeld "And what it all comes down to is that I haven't got it all figured out just yet."-Alanis Morisette "Teachers were kids once. I'll bet they had sex and they, Drank beer and smoked, too."-Becky Schwartz "In the eyes of a child you will see...the world as it should be."--unknown "The moment may be temporary, but the memory lasts forever.”-- unknown "Always leave them laughing when you say goodbye.”--unknown "The most difficult thing is to put yourself in somebody else's shoes."--unknown "Your misery is everyone else's entertainment."-Adam Duritz "what it takes to cross the great divide seems more than all the courage i can muster up inside but we get to have some answers when we reach the other side the prize is always worth the rocky ride."-Emily Saliers "Well darkness has a hunger that's insatiable/ And lightness has a call that's hard to hear/ I wrap my fear around me like a blanket/ I sailed my ship of safety till I sank it/ I'm crawling on your shore."-Emily Saliers "Generations--Mom-can we trade?/ Your Beatles/ For my/ Guns N' Roses/ Your Volkswagon bus/ For my/ 4x4 Blazer/ Your marijuana/ For my/ Crack/ Your pregnancy/ For my/ AIDS/ Your mother and father/ For my/ Father, his new wife and my half-sister/ Your generation/ in exchange for mine/ What do you say Mom-/ Can we trade?/ I didn't think so."-Lisa McDaniel "Do not fall into the trap of pretending everything is fine when you know that it is not."-Super Horoscope "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 ignore 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 redeemed by a social condition; To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded."-Ralph Waldo Emerson "You just have to let yourself go and not be worried about what other people are going to say or the things that might come out...Just jump right in full force and be as silly and stupid and adolescent and introspective as you want to be."-Amy Ray "There's a thin line between pleasing yourself and pleasing somebody else."-Gerard McHugh "i try to laugh at whatever life brings, cuz when i look down i just miss all the good stuff, and when i look up i just trip over things"--ani difranco "they said, which one is different? it does not belong... they taught me different is wrong"--ani difranco “Most of us ask for advice when we know the answer, but want a different one." --Ivern Ball “I've got enough guilt to start my own religion." - Tori Amos "It seems that different people have an idea of what I am, and what I should be. And then there's me."-- Ani DiFranco "God help me I'm just not that bright." - Homer Simpson “The past can hurt but the way I see it you can either run from it or learn from it.”-- unknown “What happens if you get scared half to death twice?”--unknown “Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. “--unknown “When eight-year old Joey’s little sister underwent a necessary operation, it turned out she had lost so much blood she was in need of an immediate transfusion. Joey’s blood was the same as her little sister’s. Will you give your sister some of your blood? asked the doctor. Joey paused for a long time before he agreed. The boy tried to be brave as the blood was being drawn from his veins, but the doctor noticed he was growing paler and paler. When the draw was complete, Joey looked up at the doctor and timidly asked, I was just wondering how long it will be before I die? The doctor looked down at Joey and said, do you think people die when they give blood? Well, yes sir, replied Joey. And you were willing to die for you sister? Yes sir, he said quietly.”--Unknown "I don't have low self esteem. I just have low esteem for everyone else!"-Daria on Daria "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 "The most wasted day of all is on which we have not laughed."-Sebastian Champrort "maybe you don't like your job/ maybe you didn't get enough sleep/ well, nobody likes their job/ nobody got enough sleep/ maybe you just had/ the worst day of your life/ but, you know, there's no escape/ and there's no excuse/ so just suck up and be nice/... the little emperor he has no clothes/ so he can't come out to play/ and besides which life is suffering/ and he likes it that way/ and the little guy is not so friendly/ but you know life has been cruel/ so wipe that smile off your face baby/ and try to be cool"-Ani DiFranco "If you don't ask the right questions every answer feels wrong."-Ani DiFranco “Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone else, just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.”--Great Gatsby "There can be...no power...to disclose...the secrets that may be buried with a human heart. The heart, making itself guilty of such secrets, must perforce hold them until the day when all hidden things be revealed."-Nathanial Hawthorne "If we could learn to like ourselves, even a little, maybe our cruelties and angers might melt away."--John Steinback "Moms, moms, a circle/ Back to moms. We all go home/ To the womb; warm, safe."-Becky Schwartz "Kids are beautiful, man. And they know much more than grownups think they know. Kids are just perfect people until grownups get their hands on them."--John Irving "Who knows who you really are? A person is like a novel: Up to the very last page you don't know how it's going to end. Otherwise, there'd be no point in reading...."-Yevgeny Zamyatin "...listening to parents' advice is sort of like watching commercials. You know what's coming, you've heard it all before, it's a big bore, but you listen anyway."-Florence Parry Heide "You might as well learn to like yourself; you have an awful lot of time to spend with you."-Professor Julius Ferris Kulp in The Nutty Professor "Trying to squash a rumour is like trying to unring a bell."-Shana Alexander "...because some changes happen deep down inside of you. And the truth is, only you know about them. Maybe that's the way it's supposed to be."-Judy Blume "The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter."-Mark Twain "Sure, I love my parents, but they're still going through this phase of thinking I'm too young to make my own decisions. About anything. I guess this is what usually happens to parents. When you're born they have to do your thinking for you because you can't do too much of that yourself, and then they get into the habit. They keep trying to think for you practically all your life."-Florence Parry Heide "Things happen to us, but it's our reactions that matter."--Felicity "Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad."--Norm Papernick "The truth can't hurt you...its the lies that kill."--Dawson’s Creek "We don't change until it becomes too painful not to."--unknown "Sarcasm helps keep you from telling people what you really think of them."--unknown "It's when you're safe at home that you wish you were having an adventure. When you're having an adventure you wish you were safe at home." -Thornton Wilder "I don't know why parents lie to their kids. Children know. Always."--unknown "Goodbyes make you think, they make you realize what you've had, what you've lost and what you've taken for granted.”--unknown "There are two kinds of people: the ones who need to be told and the ones who figure it out by themselves." -Tom Clancy " Never go to sleep angry."--unknown "The situation has got the best of me/ I've got to go on/ I know I've got to be strong/ But it's hard to exist"--Spin Doctors "All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players."-William Shakespeare "That which does not kill us, only makes us stronger."-Nietzche "There are three types of people in this world--those who make things happen, those those who watch things happen, and those who asked what happened."--unknown "A good rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical."-Thomas Jefferson "In fact the game wouldn't be worth playing if we knew what was going to happen....That may be the most important thing to understand about humans. It defines our existence. We are constantly searching--not just for answers to our questions--but also for new questions. We are explorers. We explore our lives day by day, and we explore the galaxy, trying to expand the boundaries of our knowledge."-Benjamin Sisko "When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so long and regretfully upon the closed door that we fail to see the one that has opened for us."-Alexander Graham Bell “If someone betrays you once, it's his fault. If he betrays you twice, it's your fault."--unknown "...words are some of the most powerful and important things I know....Language is the tool of love and the weapon of hatred. It's the bright red warning flag of danger--and the stone foundation of diplomacy and peace."-Ani DiFranco “I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.” -Gilda Radner "If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something."--unknown "How long a minute is depends on which side of the bathroom door you're on."--unknown "Only a life lived for others is the life worth wild." -Albert Einstein "Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery."--unknown "And because I am happy and dance and sing,/ They think they have done me no injury."-William Blake "Thank you for Not Smkoing--Cigarette smoking is the residue of your pleasure. It contaminates the air, pollutes my hair and clothes, not to mention my lungs. This takes place without my consent. I have a pleasure, also. I like a beer now and then. The residue of my pleasure is urine. Would you be annoyed if I stood on a chair and pissed on your head and your clothes without your consent?"-sign from Ken's Magic Shop "Don't want to leave but we all know sometimes it's better to go, Somehow we know we'll meet again, I'm not sure quite where and I don't know just when, You are in my heart so until then, back of my mind, bottom of my heart, always and forever.”--unknown "Children are the true believers, and some of us are lucky enough to make the transition to adulthoood without ever losing the ability to see through young eyes."-Anne Geddes "and it's really a great feeling, to know that someone's attracted to you. it's funny how often we hesitate, afraid that we'll be misread...it's really too bad that people so often think good things about others but what we hear is all the more often bad."-Audery Beth Stein "The world is like a mirror--if you face it smiling, it smiles right back."--unknown "I think about all the different ways we leave people in this world. Cheerily waving good-bye to some at airports, knowing we will never see each other again. Leaving others on the side of the road hoping we will."-The Joy Luck Club "There are people, and I'm sure this is true for many, that I would love to contact, to let them know that things got better, that I'm recovering, that I am happier and will be happier still as time goes on. I want them to know this because I still love them. Not out of bitterness, the 'ha ha look at me now. I'm happier now that you're outta my life' feeling, more the 'It's okay. It really is' feeling. But there are some people you just can't go back and contact. You just can't. And even if you did, you probably won't know if they ever understood your motives. I'm sad now. There are so many people I need to talk to. But I can't."-Holly Deal "Didn't Do it, Don't Know Nothin' about it, and you can't prove a thing!!!" -Bart Simpson "I do the best imitation of myself." - Ben Folds Five “If I could tell the world just one thing it would be that were all ok and Not to worry cause worry is wasteful and useless in time like these”--Jewel "my life may not be something special but it's never been lived before"--ani difranco A part of adolescence is feeling that there's no one else around who's enough like youself to understand you."-John Irving "Murphy's Discovery: Do you know Presidents talk to the country the way men talk to women? They say, 'Trust me, go all the way with me, and everything will be all right.' And what happens? Nine months later, you're in trouble!"--unknown "Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That's relativity."-Albert Einstein "You were not born a winner, and you were not born a loser. You are what you make yourself be."-Lou Holtz “I guess when all is said and done you are who you believe you are...and that should be good enough for everybody else." -Susan Tarnol "Sure God created man before woman, but then again you always make a rough draft before creating the final masterpiece."--unknown “Men kick friendship around like a football but it doesn't seem to break. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces."--unknown "There are a lot of people who that you may only nod to; it's better to stop and say hello." -Amy Ray "I realize that humor isn't for everyone. It's only for people who want to have fun, enjoy life, and feel alive."-Anne Wilson Schaef "Don't play dumb-there are too many people in high school who are much better at it than you are" -Daria “You can't stay mad at someone who makes you laugh.” -Jay Leno "I wanna hold your hand" -- The Beatles. "I wanna fuck you like an animal" -- Nine Inch Nails. 30 years of rock 'n roll evolution.” “Sometimes people fill their minds with the stupidest things to keep themselves from thinking about things that are really important."-My So-Called Life “Don't worry about what people are thinking about you. They're too busy worrying over what you are thinking about them.”--unknown “Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something, and has lost something.”--unknown “Psychiatrists say that one out of every four people are mentally ill; check with three friends, and if their o.k., you're it.”--unknown The key to faking out the parents is the clammy hands. You fake a stomach cramp, and when you're bent over moaning and wailing, you lick your palms. It's a little childish and stupid, but then- so is high school.”--ferris buellers day off “Every body comes from a disfunctional family. c’mon its the 90’s.”--Dawsons creek “every inch of pain that touches you makes you a deeper, more real individual; whether you are 16 or slightly older.”-- dawsons creek "So my feeling is, whatever happens, happens." --MSCL Jordan: "Why are you like this?" Angela: "Like what?" Jordan: "Like how you are." Angela: "How am I?”--unknown “Keep fighting for lost causes because you never know when your luck may change.”--dawsons creek “isnt it amazing how u can touch someones life and never realize it?!”--friends “Trust yourself. You know more then you think you do.”--unknown “Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.”--unknown Laughter is a tranquilizer with no side effects.”--unknown "If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them."-Henry David Thoreau “You can't expect a person to see eye to eye with you when you're looking down on him.”--unknown “If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would get done.”--unknown “Ya know, when you think about something before you say it, it usually comes out smarter.”--unknown “Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research.”--unknown "To be great is to be misunderstood..."-Ralph Waldo Emerson "There's always people who came 600 miles to hear the song you didn't play."-Dar Williams "If you want to play, practice. If you want to win, practice harder."--unknown "Most of the things you worry about never happen."--unknown “I like to take these long walks, mostly at night and look up at all the darkened windows. I just wonder what peoples lives are like and what they're dreaming about. And one night I was out pretty late, and as usual, all of the windows were dark, except one and I stepped and looked up, and I saw you, standing there, and you were crying. I thought what was it that made you so sad. I like to see peoples faces, when they are just falling in love, or making up from a fight, or even if they are just grieving. There's something beautiful about a persons face at that moment, and yours was incredible...confused….shocked." -movie: Bed of roses- Strange how laughter looks like crying with no sound. Raindrops taste like tears, without the pain." -- Queensryche “One person can trigger a million thoughts."--unknown “Did you ever try to protect someone so much that it actually...hurt..?”--unknown "If everything I said, made you smile, i'd talk forever."--unknown All through the night i'll be standing over you, all through the night i'll be watching over you. And through the bad dreams i'll be right there.. holding your hand, telling you everythings all right. And when you cry, i'll be right there telling you, you were never anything less than beautiful. So, dont you worry. I'm your angel standing by." "I'll always watch out for you, so don't worry, ok?"--MSCL “They took all the trees and put them in a tree museum and they charged all the people a dollar and a half just to see 'em. Don't it always seem to go that you don't know what you've got till it's gone? They've paved paradise and put up a parking lot." -Joni Mitchell Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world." -Lucielle Ball "God gave people a mouth that closes and ears that don't, which should tell us something."--unknown “I may not be totally perfect, but parts of me are excellent." -Ashleigh Brilliant “A moment lasts all of a second, but the memory lives on forever."--unknown “Cause to me, it's, there's nothing that's personal and private, it's all universal. There's no experience that I have ever had that's unique. And the fact that there is just certain stuff that we share but don't admit to and don't talk about. You know, what is that about?" -Ani Difranco "Did you hear about that woman who got paid $3 million for spilling hot coffee on her crotch at McDonalds? Three million dollars!! I wish someone had given me that opportunity before I wasted all that time in college! If they had just laid it all out for me 'Ok, you can spend four to five years at a local university, graduate, and earn maybe $30,000 a year, working every single day for the rest of your life. Or...scaling hot java on your crotch- three million!' I'd be like, 'Could that be de-caf? I get irritable." -Robin Greenspan “Sometimes things are true whether you believe in them or not."--City of Angels "I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish He didn't trust me so much." -Mother Teresa “We don't want to be labeled, because being gay or black or a rapper or a redneck or alternative has only separated us, and those are labels previous generations have come up with, not us. We need to embrace our differences, not focus on them." -Zach "I laughed and punched him gently and collected my stuff. Then I went home to continue my life, which had changed a little, as lives do every day, inching by microspecks forward toward whatever suprises are coming next." -Lois Lowry "It is amazing what you can find when looking for something else"--unknown “Be true to yourself and you will never fail." -Beastie Boys “And how high can you fly with broken wings? Life's a journey, not a destination, and I just can't tell just what tomorrow brings. -Aerosmith “My goal is not to wake up at forty with a bitter realization that I wasted my life at a job I hate because I was forced to decide on a career in my teens.” -Daria "What appears to be the end may really be a new beginning.”--unknown "The Smile That Came Back--I had a smile, I gave my smile away. The milkman and the postman enjoyed it every day. I took it to the shop, I had it on the street. I gave it without thinking, to all I chanced to meet. I gave my smile away, as thoughtless as can be, and every time I gave it, my smile came back to me.” - F.T. Cosgau "Women are repeatedly accused of taking things personally. I cannot see any other honest way of taking them." "Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself."-George Bernard Shaw “Bad things are always going to happen in life. People will hurt you. But you can't use that as an excuse to fail or to hurt someone back. You'll only hurt yourself."-Touched by an Angel daily calendar "Love bravely, live bravely, be courageous, there's really nothing to lose." -Jewel "Sometimes people fill their minds with the stupidest things to keep themselves from thinking about things that are really important." -My So-Called Life "Some people wear their smile like a disguise. Those people who smile a lot, watch their eyes. I know 'cause I'm like that a lot. You think everything's ok, and it is . . . 'til it's not." -Ani DiFranco "People told me I shouldn’t take everything too seriously, and I didn’t listen. Now I wish I had, because I tormented myself over every liettle thing. What’s bad is when you get to age 19, you’re looking back thinking, “I wish I could be young again and just have a better time.” -Claire Danes “People are all the same.' 'No, don't believe it. People are different. People like to be different.”-Exodus “People in general are cruel to one another. The only way to have fun to them is to make fun of someone. I hate that. Why can’t someone be different…why can’t someone be themselves without being made fun of? I hate society because of how they judge people and how everything is based on looks and shit. I’m sorry…but I’m not a jerk to others. So be nice or fuck yourself.”--unknown "I write constantly, but only in my journals. I have three of them: one for travel, one for home, and one I write in before bed. But the last thing I want is other people reading it..... What's really fun is reading your journal, like a year later, or even a month, and realizing how much you've changed. You're looking at something you said, something you really meant at the time, and you're like, 'I can't believe I ever really believed that! I am such an asshole!' I think that's the greatest thing about growing up...." -Cameron Diaz “We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.”--unknown "You better believe there will be times in your life when you'll be feeling like a stumbling fool. So take it from me: you'll learn more from your accident than anything that you could ever learn in school." -Billy Joel "By the age of six the average child will have completed the basic American education.... From television, the child will have learned how to pick a lock, commit a fairly elaborate bank holdup, prevent wetness all day long, get the laundry twice as white, and kill people with a variety of sophisticated armaments.” -Russell Baker, "School vs. Education" “Time is a beautiful thing. It's like when you meet an old lover on the street six years later and they don't look so ugly anymore." -Sarah McLachlan “We’re all citizens of the womb, before we subdivide into sexes and shades- this side, that side.” -Ani DiFranco "Adolescence is that time when I think, it can be- it's the cruelest place on Earth. It can really be heartless." -Tori Amos "Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it." -Tori Amos "Just let me go, we have to be able to criticize what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if you're not trying to make something better, then as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." -Ani DiFranco "I am strong because I believe in myself. I know who I am and what I can do. It doesn't matter what I look like, where I live, or who my friends are. What matters is the confidence that I carry within."--Reebok “everything i do is judged, and they mostly get it wrong. but oh well.”--ani difranco "Somewhere there's someone who dreams of your smile, and finds in your presence that life is worth while. So when you are lonely, remember it's true: Somebody, somewhere is thinking of you." "Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." -Henry Van Dyke Sometimes you dont need to speak to be understood.”--baywatch "It's surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves, and if you're not comfortable within yourself, you can't be comfortable with others." --unknown "How come dumb stuff seems so smart while you're doing it?" --unknown "I'm no angel. Angels don't cry." --unknown "Nighttime is really the best time to work. All the ideas are there to be yours because everyone else is asleep."--unknown And all she keeps inside, isn't on the label." --unknown “I don’t want to be normal like you.”--unknown "Not all my poems rhyme, and not all my stories end. But isn't that what life is? A random set of continuous things? Does everything we do match up perfectly in harmony and syllables? Do all our lives end happily? Sure my poems don't rhyme...but that's the least of my worries."--unknown “When special people touch our lives, we sudenly we see how beautiful our world can really be. They show us that our special hopes and dreams can take us far, by helping us look inward and believe who we are. They bless us with their love and joy, through everything they give-When special people touch our lives, they teach us how to live.”--unknown "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do." Walter Bagehot "A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, he is just braver five minutes longer" - Emerson "It just seems like, you agree to have a certain personality or something. For no reason, just to make things easier for everyone. But when you think about it, I mean, how do you know it's even you?" ~MSCL "There's something about Sunday night that really makes you want to kill yourself, especially if you've totally been made a fool of, by the only person you'll ever love, and you have a geometry midterm on Monday, which you still haven't studied for, because you can't, because Brian Krakow has your textbook, and you're too embarrassed to even deal with it. And your little sister's completely finished with her homework, which is just...like, so simple and mindless a child could do it. And that creepy 60 Minutes watch that sounds like your whole life ticking away." --MSCL "Goodbyes make you think, they make you realize what you've had, what you've lost and what you've taken for granted"--unknown That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.” --Gloria Vanderbilt "Sometimes, no matter how much faith we have, we lose people. But you never forget them. And sometimes, it's those memories that give us the faith to go on."--unknown "Today I realized that Teddy Bears won't make everything all right, and tears don't make the hurt go away." --Unknown Don't know what to say about leaving, so I won't say much...had so many wonderful times and friends. But most of them have gone somewhere else...at least in our memories."--unknown "God gives us the darkness so we can see the stars."~Unknown "Sometimes the only thing that listens to you is paper."--unknown "On the remote of life, the rewind doesn't work" --Dawson's Creek “heres to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels. the troublemakers. the round heads in the square holes. the ones who see things differently. they're not fond of rules. you can quote them, disagree with them, glorify, or villify them. but the only thing you can't do is ignore them. because they change things. they push the human race forward. and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do”-- unknown No one knows you like a person with whom you've shared a childhood. No one will ever understand you in quite the same way. -Alice Hoffman “You spend 12 years trying to learn how to live, but everytime you try to live in those 12 years you're told you're wrong. Then everyone you've grown to love and unlove is taken away, and scattered. That's what they should teach you. They should teach you how to say good-bye and let go.”--unknown "If I had no sense of humor, I would have long ago killed myself."--unknown "If you really want something you can figure out how to make it happen." -Cher "And remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That's why it's a comfort to go hand in hand."-Emily Kimbrough “I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass." -Maya Angelou "My life has been one great big joke, A dance that's walked, A song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke, When I think about myself." -Maya Angelou “I hate track! I hate running! Running around and around and around and around, and all you get is this little ribbon. That's not forme."-Dave Aldridge "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 "Don’t be content with being average. Average is as close to the bottom as it is to the top." --unknown "Speak your mind. Don’t let anyone censor you. It’s the best advice. Even as a teenager, I always said what I was thinking. I wasn’t afraid of what others think. You have to express yourself no matter what anyone else thinks about it.” -Kristie Alley “So if I have to leave you, I want you to know that in the end it wasn't because I stopped caring, it was because you stopped being a friend.”--unknown "Pain is only valuable once you know that you've learned from it."-Lilieeye Dhark “People feel like they have to live up to being perfect or have a perfect life or be perfectly happy, and it just makes them more unhappy.” -Christina Ricci, on the perils of perfectionism "We all want to be happy, and we're all going to die. … You might say those are the only two unchallengeably true facts that apply to every human being on this planet.” -William Boyd "Take a look at what you have. Think of all you did to get it. Remember it only takes one second to lose."--Lyndi "cause everybody needs somebody else to blame. they cant curse themselves, they take their doctors name in vain. theyd rather jump through hoops and therapeutic groups than in their own minds delve. oh god..why dont we believe in ourselves?" --jewel “I’ve got a dream, too, but its about singing and dancing and making people happy. That’s the kind of dream that gets better the more people you share it with and, well, I’ve found a whole bunch of friends who have the same dream. And it kind of makes us like a family.”--Kermit the Frog “you don't have to like me for who i am, but we'll see what you're made of by what you make of me"--ani difranco "There are those who are very special to each of us, maybe not throughout our lives, maybe not for very long, maybe only in passing. But they make up the most beloved and cherished group we each have. These are our nearest angels, and as things turn out, often we are theirs, too."-Karen Goldman "I realize that humor isn't for everyone. It's only for people who want to have fun, enjoy life, and feel alive."-Anne Wilson Schaef "We find it hard to believe that other people's thoughts are as silly as our own, but they probably are." -James Harvey Robinson "If there is anything in the world more annoying than having people talk about you, it is certainly having no one talk about you." -Oscar Wilde “I feel like a defective model, like I came off the assembly line flat-out fucked and my parents should have taken me back for repairs before the warranty ran out." -Elizabeth Wurtzel "I am trying to figure out the exact moment my life got so fucked up.” -Tom, Prince of Tides "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 Saroyan "If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down, but the staying down."-Mary Pickford "These are the days of the endless summers. These are the days, the time is now. There is no past, there's only future. There's only here, there's only now."-Van Morrison "Make those you meet feel like an angel has kissed them, and leave behind gentle memories when you go."-Lynn Ray "Don't criticize what you don't understand." ~ Bob Dylan “Each person has their own story. Each is different & has a something to tell to those who are willing to listen. Each story has so many things to accomplish - it never ends. Each is special in its own little way & each wants to be told. Each holds secrets & gossip, tragedies & miracles, love & heartache. So open your heart and listen to what you hold inside.”--unknown “I close my eyes, wishin I’d be fine....even though I know I'm not this time.”--indigo girls "Some things just aren't meant to last forever."--unknown "every once in a while it helps to have a good cry, If only to wash the pages of our heart so you can start out clean and new."--unknown "It's true no matter how happy you are now, or how far away, you still dream of going back."--unknown “Growing up is learning. It hurts to let go, it hurts to move on.”--unknown “Sometimes we may lose a best friend. We learn who our friends are. It is probably the most painful thing, but the best way to deal with it is to move on and learn, holding no regrets.”--Dazajr “If you're never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take chances.” -- Julia Sorel "No matter how far away you are, in heaven or wherever you are, I know you will always be by my side each and every time I cry."--unknown "...And when the time comes to let it go, let it go." -Mary Oliver “And I thought that all of those little kids are going to grow up some day. And all of those little kids are going to do the things we do. And they will kiss someone someday. But for now, sledding is enough. I think it would be great if sledding were always enough, but it isn't.”--unknown “Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.”--unknown “As we grow older it is harder to just believe. It is not because we don't want to. It is because we can't. Too much has happened to us for us to just believe.”---Unknown " God forbid you never have to walk a mile in his shoes. Then you might really know what it's like.”--Everlast "There are...people we wonder about but don't make...attempts to contact. Perhaps we're afraid of empty conversation with someone we're not sure if we ever connected to in the first place, or perhaps we're curious about someone whose life we watched for awhile from afar. Sometimes it's just been too long, and sometimes we can't even articulate the need to know whatever happened to so-and-so. Where are they? Did they make it? Are they happy? Are they passionate about something in their lives? Are they anything like the people we once knew?" -Audrey Beth Stien "Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around." -Leo Buscaglia .. "Watching a peaceful death of a human being reminds us of a falling star; one of a million lights in a vast sky that flares up for a brief moment, only to disappear into the endless night forever." -Elisabeth Kuebler-Ross "...listening to parents' advice is sort of like watching commercials. You know what's coming, you've heard it all before, it's a big bore, but you listen anyway."-Florence Parry Heide "Don’t fool yourself that you are going to have it all. You are not. Psychologically, having it all is not even a valid concept. The marvelous thing about human beings is that we are perpetually reaching for the stars. The more we have, the more we want. And for this reason, we never have it all." ---Joyce Brothers "Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in this life." -Jean Paul Richter "Once you can laugh at your own weaknesses, you can move forward. Comedy breaks down walls. It opens up people. If you're good, you can fill up those openings with something positive. Maybe you can combat some of the ugliness in the world.” -Goldie Hawn "It's good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good, too, to checkup once in a while and make sure you haven't lost the things money can't buy.” -GeorgeLorimer I laugh at what I cannot change-dmb "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." "I'm not sure how I did It, my memories begins with the crack of the bat, and the sight of the ball rising. Maybe that's not exactly what It happens. But that's the way It should have happen, and That's the way I like to remembering. And If dreams and memories sometimes get confused to well... That is It should be, because every kiddeserves to be a hero... Every kid already is..." Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down. -Oprah Winfrey The hardest part of growing up is having the ones you've always turned to, turn to you." ' ...things change, people change, and it doesn't mean you forget the past and try to cover it up. It simply means you move on and treasure the memories. " "Everything is everything. What is meant to be will be. After winter must come spring. Change will come eventually." -Lauryn Hill In your life, you meet people. Some you never think about again. Some, you wonder what happened to them. There are some that you wonder if they ever think about you. And then there are some you wish you never had to think about again. But you do." "I want to appreciate the times when moments are made into memories. I want to embrace them, cherish them, and never forget that they come so few and far between. I know that wherever life takes me, these moments will always follow. They remind me of what's truly important. It's not just life, but living. It's the journey, the destination, and all the points in between. And I must admit, I like what I see." I am told to live in the present. Don't just hope and plan for happiness in the future. Take advantage of your youth, of the NOW. All right then. Can someone please tell me how? What is the secret to happiness? My problem is that I care too much about other people's opinions. I know I shouldn't. If they don't like me that's their loss. I need to open up. But how? I've already shut myself out. I'm told it's simple. Just approach a group of people and start talking like I do with my best friend. Well, I have trouble talking to my best friend. I'm not a good talker. And it's not like I'm depressed. So I've decided the cure for my emptiness will come from romance. Now, how to find romance... I'm scared to get close to people, whether they're friends or whatever. It seems that every time I get close to someone, they always have to go away. Maybe it's to teach me how life goes on and how I shouldn't depend on people so much, or maybe I just trust the wrong people. It's funny. The people who obsess over what people say about them are always the people who are talked about, while the people who really don't care are regarded with the highest admiration. The key is to get to know people and trust them to be who they are. Instead, we trust them to be who we want them to be, and when they're not, we cry. You know, it is the loneliest feeling in the world to be crying and no one is there for you. You sit and cry, hugging yourself, pretending you're in someone's arms. And sometimes you just get so lonely, you try to comfort yourself with your own words...The words you know that special person would say to you if they could be with you. But the tears just keep coming, and you can't calm yourself down, so when you are sad and you can't be with the person that means the world to you just wish you could die. *I haven't lost my morals. I'm just tired of being the "good girl." I want those lonely nights to turn into something else. I want the attention from men just as much as the next woman and I know I can't find it in my own house. I have to get my butt out there and ask for it. I'm not a slut or a player… I just want them to know I'm here. He came over tonight. He sat across the table from me, and we talked. Here I am, sitting in the chair he sat in, wondering, what if...? What if things were different and he had fallen for me? What if he was here telling me how much he loved me instead of how much he cared about my best friend and helping me with my guy problems? But then as I start to feel lonely and depressed, I also ask myself: what if he had never come into my life? Then I realize how lucky I am because our friendship is so strong, but I can't help but want something more when I see daily how perfect he truly is. *I don't care that she called me weird. I like being weird. I take it as a compliment. I'd hate to be normal...to be one of those...people. How can they stand themselves?