Reflections

Strange as it seems, my life is based on a true story.

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Reflections

Sometimes you meet someone, and it's so clear that the two of you, on some level belong together. As lovers, or as friends, or as family, or as something entirely different. You just work, whether you understand one another, or you're in love or you're partners in crime. You meet under the strangest of circumstances and they help you feel alive.

When you don't qualify for the game why do you care who wins.

You've already won me over, inspite of me.

And don't be surprised if I fall head over feet.

And don't be alarmed if I love you for all that you are...

I couldn't help it, it's all your fault!

A man who invents himself needs someone to believe in him... Not only the need to be believed in, but the need to believe in another. You've got it: Love.

Salman Rushdie

If this is a crush, then I don't know if I could take if the real thing ever happened.

Holden
Chasing Amy

But I believe there's a ghost of a chance we can find someone to love... and make it last.

Rush
Ghost of a Chance

How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.

Anais Nin

The biggest favour you can do someone is leave them now if you know you will have to leave them later. While all this time you might think you're protecting them, they might be falling more and more in love with you...

Einstein said that talking to yourself is a sign of intelligence. Answering yourself, however, is a sign of insanity. I have no problem with you talking to yourself, just as long as it doesn't turn into an argument.

The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them. It's hard to make strangers care about the good things in your life.

Stephen King

I am scared of telling you... I already know that if I let myself be I will fall in love with you. I am scared of telling you that... If I fall in love with you I would want you to be with me. I am scared of telling you... The only reason I am scared of telling you is because you'll judge me and won't be with me.

DID WE EVER HAVE A CHANCE?

Within their own sex, men bond more easily than women, but women bond more effectively. At a gathering, men will invite a stranger they've just met to play football with them, but women won't ask an acquaintance to shop with them. Those men will, at most, remain football buddies. But women will always have someone to go to the bathroom with.

David Fuhrmann-Lim
What Men Learn From The Women They Love, Her World, Dec

Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.

A man without a religion is like a fish without a bicycle.

Here's the thing about mistakes, even when you know it's a mistake you still have to make them.

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -

I took the one less travelled by,

And that has made all the difference

Robert Frost

When all is said and done... the fact remains. The one and only fact... I love you still!

She sees shooting stars and comet tails. She's got heaven in her eyes. She says, "I don't need to be an angel. But I'm nothing if I'm not this high."

Counting Crows
Recovering the Satellites

If I made a mistake then I apologize. I am happy that I am not going to Jail because of that.

Jose Mourinho

I emerged from the woods that day into a different world, an adult world, where memories of first love linger, but summers always end.

Tim Madigan
The Love I'll Never Forget

When I consider the short duration of my life, swallowed up in the eternity before and after, the little space I fill, and even can see, engulfed in the infinite immensity of space of which I am ignorant, and which knows me not, I am frightened, and am astonished at being here rather than there, why now rather than then.

Blaise Pascal

What's your story??

I have taken more out of alcohol then alcohol has taken out of me.

Winston Churchill

To the intelligent man or woman, life appears infinitely mysterious. But the stupid have an answer for every question.

But the most exciting, challenging and significant relationship of all is the one you have with yourself. And if you can find someone to love the you you love, well, that's just fabulous.

Billy: Will you ever forgive my letting go?
Ally McBeal: I'll forgive it. But I'm still not sure I'll ever understand it.

Women are more balanced than men. Where the most brilliant minds have so far have mostly belonged to men, no women has ever been as stupid as a man can be.
John Smith

It's not the wrong guys that can hurt you, only the right ones.

Ally McBeal

Some people will not tolerate such emotional honesty in communication. They would rather defend their dishonesty on the grounds that it might hurt others. Therefore, having rationalized their phoniness into nobility, they settle for superficial relationships.

Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up these defenses, you build this whole suit of armor, so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life. You give them a piece of you. They didn't ask for it. They do something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own any more. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination, not just in the mind. It's a soul hurt, a body hurt... gets inside you and rips you apart pain. I hate love.

Neil Gaiman

The fear of losing something makes you hold on to it stronger.

All our young lives we search for someone to love, someone to make us complete. We choose partners and change partners. We dance to a song of heartbreak and hope, all the while wondering if somewhere, somehow, someone perfect is searching for us.

Fred Savage (Kevin Arnold)
The Wonder Years

I will set you free, to roam in lands far away, and hope you return. If and when you do come back, I shall hold you, and kiss you to make my world right. And then I will set you free once more.

Anne Forehand

Ever notice that "what the hell" is always the right decision?

Marilyn Monroe

To be or not to be... THAT is the question.

If a June night could talk, it would probably boast that it invented romance.

Bern Williams

In pursuit of happiness, the difficulty lies in knowing when you have caught up.

R.H. Grenvill

I'm not scared of love, I just avoid it.

Anonymous

You are never dedicated to something you have complete confidence in. No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. They know it's going to rise tomorrow. When people are fanatically dedicated to political or religious faiths or any other kinds of dogmas or goals, it's always because these dogmas or goals are in doubt.

Robert Pirsig

Don't let the sun go down on me
Although I search myself, it's always someone else I see
I'd just allow a fragment of your life to wander free
But losing everything is like the sun going down on me

George Michael & Elton John
Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me

Remember that the beauty of any dream is in never letting it go.

Sarina

It's a perfect day for letting go.

Robert Smith, The Cure

I am filled with fear and tormented with terrible visions of pain. Everywhere people are hurting one another, the planet is rampant with injustices, whole societies plunder groups of their own people, mothers imprison sons, children perish while brothers war. O, woe.

Robert Anton Wilson
The Principia Discordia

There are only four question of any value in this life, Don Octavio; what is sacred, of what is the spirit made, what is worth living for and what is worth dieing for. The answer to each is the same - only love.

Johnny Depp
Don Juan Demarco

O thou ungrateful, faithless wretch! You were afraid of being united to someone who adored you. These bonds of an everlasting chain were becoming a burden to you, and your heart, which is seduced by fickleness and frivolity alone, was not discerning or sensitive enough to be conscious of all the charms such bonds entailed. Twas the thought of leaving Paris that frightened you; my love was not enough for you; I was unable to make it last. Die, monster, born to make my life miserable, stay there in Paris forever! May it one day become, through the deceitfulness and knavery of the scoundrel who will replace me in your heart, as odious to you as your own double dealing has made it in my eyes!

Marquis De Sade
Letters to Madame la Presidente de Montreuil

You say:

Perfect love is not recieving, its giving and forgiving,

Perfect love is not red roses on valentines day, its the other 365 days of knowing you love someone

Perfect love is not phone calls, its silent smiles in the memory of your sweetheart

Perfect love is not a grand wedding but spending a lifetime together

I say:

Do you know how difficult perfect love is to live upto? Don't use it as an excuse for not living up to expectations one day... You're setting a lifetime of expectation by just saying all this.

The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind i was.

Lovers dont finally meet somewhere.

They're in each other all along.

By day I praised you - and never knew it.

By night I stayed with you - and never knew it.

I always thought that - I was me but no,

I was you and never knew it.

I'm not here, I've gone out to look for myself. If I come back before I return, please tell me to wait.

Andrea Pusi

I have approximate answers and possible beliefs and different degrees of certainty about different things, but I'm not absolutely sure of anything, and many things I don't know anything about, such as whether it means anything to ask why we're here, and what the question might mean. I might think about it a little bit, but if I can't figure it out, then I go on to something else. But I don't have to know an answer. I don't have to...I don't feel frightened by not knowing things, by being lost in the mysterious universe without having any purpose, which is the way it really is, as far as I can tell, possibly. It doesn't frighten me.

Richard Phillips Feynman

In health and sight, Till blindness does us part.

There are two kinds of friendship: one is genuine affection, the other is inability to refuse.

Umberto Eco
How To Travel With A Salmon and Other Essays

Some people have a large circle of friends while others have only friends that they like.

George Santayana

Do you know how painful it is to tell someone you love him and not hear him say it back?

Monica
Friends

Isn't it amazing how falling in love is always so out of this world... its like you're falling in love the first time all over again!

Natasha, to love is to suffer. To avoid suffering, one must not love. But, then one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer, not to love is to suffer, to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love, to be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy, therefore, to be unhappy one must love, or love to suffer, or suffer from too much happiness, I hope you're getting this down.

Woody Allen
Love and Death

And all the roads we have to walk are winding
And all the lights that lead us there are blinding
There are many things that I would like to say to you
But I don't know how

Oasis
Wonderwall
What's The Story Morning Glory

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds.

Q: Do you think there is intelligent life out there?
A: I sometimes doubt whether there is intelligent life down here! It seems incredible that, in this enormous universe, we are the only intelligence. If we are the only intelligence in this gigantic universe, that's a tremendous responsibility.

Tic Toc Tic Toc Tic

Who am I? Who are you? That is to say, "Who are you really?" Do you know? Does anyone know? The restraints of this society make us put up so many walls of bullshit and facades to hide who we are that it is almost impossible to tell who anyone really is. We dig ourselves into a comfortable hole to hide away from the eyes of our peers, and it's in this hole that we bury ourselves. Dig yourselves out. Claw your way back into the light of day. Let your true self breathe, and in doing that, live.

Patrick Goins
Half life

Some people meet that somebody that they can never stop loving no matter how hard they try. I wouldn't expect you to understand that or even believe it. But trust me, some loves just don't go away.

Ally McBeal

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

G. K. Chesterton

As I was going up the stair
I met a man who wan't there
He wasn't there again today
Oh I wish he'd go away!

If I would believe what I read about myself, I would hate my guts too.

I've dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they've gone through and through me like wine through water, and altered the colour of my mind.

Emily Bronte
Wuthering Heights

When the leaves burn summer ends. Summers gone, you wasted every day.

Hold on to your divine blush, your innate rosy magic, or end up brown. Once you're brown, you'll find out you're blue. As blue as indigo. And you know what that means. Indigo. Indigoing. Indigone.

Life is demented enough as it is. Why I haven't gone crazy, I don't know. But sometimes I wish I were.

Who can tell what metals the gods use in forging the subtle bond which we call sympathy, which we might as well call love.

Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The trouble-makers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules, and they have no respect for the status-quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify, or vilify 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, they're genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.

Think Different
Apple

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If you live to be a hundred and twenty four, then I wish to live to be a hundred and twenty four minus one day.

Stay Beautiful.

Note to Self: Just because someone doesn't love you they way you want them to doesn't mean they don't love you with all they've got.

Remember that you don't choose love. Love chooses you. All you can really do is accept it for all its mystery when it comes into your life. Feel the way it fills you to overflowing, then reach out and give it away.

Then love knew it was called love.
And when I lifted my eyes to your name,
suddenly your heart showed me my way.

I don't want to sound gloomy, but at some point of your lives every one of you will notice that you have in your life one person, one friend whom you love and care for very much. That person is so close to you that you are able to share some things only with him. For example, you can call that friend, and from the very first maniacal laugh or some other joke you will know who is at the other end of that line. And then when that person is gone, when that person disappears there will be nothing like that in your life ever again.

Christopher Lee
Ain`t it Cool News

For the past few years, my life has been turned upside down, inside out, and I can say that I'm pretty much fed-up and had enough of my share, not with life, but with society and people.

I've slowed down and taken a backseat and I'm watching other people's lives zoom pass while I stand motionless in time. It's pretty amazing when you view the world from a different angle. Not eveything is good in life, but not everything is bad either. I've learnt that I cannot change the world, and the world will not change for me.

Jason Q

Laughing doesn't mean i'm happy.

Talking doesn't mean i'm preoccupied

Accompanied does mean i'm not lonely

Working doesn't mean i'm focused

Silence doesn't mean you're forgotten

Hatred doesn't mean you're not loved

Being doesn't mean i'm complete

Miss you!

I miss you everytime I walk out of the airport.

Are you going to scare me into loving you the way I loved you when I had no fear?

... again you search for what had gone wrong, realising only after too long that it was not your fault. It was nobody's fault actually. Sometimes, feelings are gone. You finally are able to put the past behind you and forget, but sudden flashbacks and chanced-meetings reignite the dead flames and you wonder and you worry. Your heart is willing but your mind says no.

Jason Q

But I know the rage that drives you. That impossible anger strangling the grief, until the memory of your loved one is just... poison in your veins. And one day, you catch yourself wishing the person you loved had never existed so you'd be spared your pain.

Henri Ducard
Batman Begins

Our love is chaotic, but then so are we.

I'm afraid I'm starting to miss you.

The one that got away, wasn't there to begin with.

A big part of loving someone is not allowing them to make mistakes they'll regret later.

I don't rent space to anyone in my heart.

I'm responsible for the way it looks, the way it sounds, the way it's cast, what the locations look like, what the script's like, how the fucking shoes are tied and how your fucking hair is done. So back off and have the good grace to give me a little bit of space to coordinate these things at which I'm maybe one of the best. I say it's not just about you. Ultimately, it's about me.

Ridley Scott

...Why is commitment such a big problem for a man? I think that for some reason when a man is driving down that freeway of love, the woman he's with is like an exit, but he doesn't want to get off there. He wants to keep driving. And the woman is like, "Look, gas, food, lodging, that's our exit, that's everything we need to be happy...Get off here, now!" But the man is focusing on sign underneath that says, "Next exit 27 miles," and he thinks, "I can make it." Sometimes he can, sometimes he can't. Sometimes, the car ends up on the side of the road, hood up and smoke pouring out of the engine. He's sitting on the curb all alone, "I guess I didn't realize how many miles I was racking up."

Why is it better to have loved and lost then never to have loved at all? I don't get it. If you've never loved, you don't know what you're missing. It's only when you've experienced it firsthand that the idea of losing it can seem so intolerably painful, so nauseatingly frightening, surely?

Ignorance is bliss, as they say. For this reason I believe there should be separate phrases.

1. "It's better to be in love than never to have loved at all."

2. "It's better to be hit by a truck than to have loved and lost."

You talk about the world like it's someplace that you've been.

Goo Goo Dolls
Broadway

If you want to know how your girl will treat you after marriage, just listen to her talking to her little brother.

Sam Leveson

The timing was bad.

I was totally unsettled and you were ready get settled.

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.

Albert Einstein

If a man we don't know phones us up one day and talks a little, makes no suggestions, says nothing special, but nevertheless pays us the kind of attention we rarely recieve, we're quite capable of going to bed with him the same night, feeling relatively in love. That's what women are like, and there's nothing wrong with that - it's the nature of felmale to open herself to love easily

Paulo Coelho

They say that extroverts are unhappier than introverts, and have to compensate for this by constantly proving to themselves how happy and contented and at ease with life they are.

Paulo Coelho

This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.

Winston Churchill

You've got to dance like nobody's watching, and love like it's never going to hurt.

Kathy Mattea
Come From The Heart

The one who agrees, admits defeat.

I wish people could acheive what they think would bring them happiness in order for them to realize that that's not what happiness really is.

Alanis Morisette

The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it.

Jacques Cousteau

If I knew that, I'd fall in love over and over again. Hearts aren't supposed to be mended. If you fall in love and it doesn't work out, you get a broken heart. What comes out of that will make you a better lover and partner next time.

Griffin Dunne

Truth never hurts the teller.

Robert Browning

You know what's the most terrifying thing about admitting that you're in love? You're just naked. You put yourself in harm's way and you lay down all your defences. No clothes, no weapons. Nowhere to hide, completely vulnerable. The only thing that makes it tolerable is to believe the other person loves you back and you can trust him not to hurt you.

Mary Doria Russell
The Sparrow

If you want to know how your girl will treat you after marriage, just listen to her talking to her little brother.

Sam Levenson

The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say commonplace things but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the centerlight pop and everybody goes "AWWWW!!!"

Jack Kerouac

When the sun shine we'll shine together
Told you I'll be here forever
Said I'll always be your friend
Took an oath, I'mma stick it out 'til the end
Now that it's raining more than ever know that we'll still have eachother
You can stand under my umbrella

Since the moment I spotted you
Like walking around with little wings on my shoes
My stomach's filled with the butterfly's
Mmm and it's alright

I bet you're hard to get over
I bet the moon just won't shine
I bet my hands I can stay here
I bet you need - more than you mind

When we're incomplete, we're always searching for somebody to complete us. When, after a few years or a few months of a relationship, we find that we're still unfulfilled, we blame our partners and take up with somebody more promising. This can go on and on -- series polygamy -- untill we admit that while a partner can add sweet dimensions to our lives, we, each of us, are responsible for our own fulfillment. Nobody else can provide it for us, and to believe otherwise is to delude ourselves dangerously and to program for eventual failure every relationship we enter.

Tom Robbins
Still Life with Woodpecker

One night when my longing for her was like a fire burning out of control in my heart and my head, I wrote her a letter that just seemed to go on and on. I poured out my whole heart in it, never looking back to see what I’d said because I was afraid cowardice would make me stop. I didn’t stop, and when a voice in my head clamored that it would be madness to mail such a letter, that I would be giving her my naked heart to hold in her hand, I ignored it with a child’s breathless disregard of the consequences.

Stephen King
The Green Mile

Our lives are like bubbles in a small pool of water. Once in a while, and only a few times in our lives, someone or something comes along and splashes the water, dispersing the bubbles. Our lives are disturbed, our beliefs are shakened, some of our dreams die. However, the bubbles will come together again eventually, as we all recover from our pains and sorrows. And life goes on. But the shape of the original pool of bubbles will never again be the same.

Jason Q.

It is within the experience of everyone that when pleasure and pain reach a certain intensity they are indistinguishable.

Arnold Bennett

'Do you love me?' I asked him, seemingly out of the blue but in my own mind the question had been rolling off my lips for some time. He just looked at me with his head cocked to one side as if to say 'what on earth do you mean?'. I persisted 'Do you love me? It's a simple question Michael.' He paused, took a deep breath drawing words into his mouth. 'I do, yes. I love you Nathalie.' I think in any other mindset I would have ran into his arms and told him that he'd made me the happiest woman in the world, but it's a funny thing when the delusion wears off and you see someone in their truth for the first time... I was hardened, he was lying, nobody was wrong or right at this point and no matter how many 'I love you's would leave our lips, we had reached our end.

Elizabeth Barrett
The Center of my Universe

You complete me.

Dotty -- this is not "a guy.". This is a "syndrome." It's called Early Midlife, About-To-Marry, Hanging Onto The-Bottom-Rung Dear-God-Don't-Let-Me-Be-Alone, I'll-Call-My-Newly Long-suffering-Assistant-Without Medical-For-Company Syndrome. And if, knowing all that, you still allow him to come over, more power to you.

Jerry McGuire

Has it ever happened to you where everything is going well in your life, but one day, for no particular reason, you wake up and there's this empty feeling in everything around you, and in you.

What is it to live life without direction? Not knowing what is going to happen tomorrow?

Weightless and maybe.

Jason Q

I hold a scrap of paper in the darkness and light it. I watch it burn bright and curl, disappearing into nothingness, and the heat burns my fingers. Where has it gone? What has it become? I cannot shake the feeling that I have witnessed a form of transcendence.

Commissioner Pravin Lal
"The Convergence"

The suspense is killing me...

don't let a lot of people liking you fool you into thinking a lot of people love you.

I don't claim to have an answer to every question, but I promise you I have a question for every answer.

David Lander, sleight-of-hand artist

There's no doubt that I've deserved my enemies, but I don't think I've deserved my friends.

Walt Whitman

Do not fear your enemies. The worst they can do is kill you. Do not fear friends. At worst, they may betray you. Fear those who do not care; they neither kill nor betray, but betrayal and murder exists because of their silent consent.

Bruno Jasienski
Yasensky

When my friends killed me, my friends brought me back to life!

An ode to the mads and fats of the world,

I have no trouble with my enemies. I can take care of my enemies in a fight. But my friends, my goddamned friends, they're the ones who keep me walking the floor at nights!

Warren G. Harding

I hate the idea of causes, and if I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.

E. M. Forster

My only love, sprung from my only hate.

William Shakespeare
Romeo & Jul

If we think of love as in itself the answer to all the problems human beings face, we will constantly be disappointed by it. If we search for perfection in a mate and refuse to be satisfied by anything less than that, we will never really experience sexual or marital love. If we are unwilling to undergo the interpersonal negotiations...we will never be able to give our love to anyone. Since love does not simply happen, as I have been suggesting, it must emerge as the saving remnant of our endless yearning for happy and meaningful lives.

Irving Singer

Nothing you've ever known is true. Nor nothing you've ever loved. You don't know if there's a Hell below you, or a Heaven above. The Truth, my friend, is somewhere out there, just waiting to be released. But before you embark on your great endeavor, know that you'll never return to peace.

Charles Edward Jaggard

If you take someones thoughts and feelings away, bit by bit, consistently, then they have nothing left, except some gritty, gnawing, shitty little instinct, down there, somewhere, worming round the gut, but so far down, so hidden, it's impossible to find. Imagine, if you will, a worldwide conspiracy to deny the existence of the color yellow and whenever you saw yellow they told you no, that isn't yellow, what the fuck's yellow? Eventually, whenever you saw yellow, you would say: that isn't yellow, course, it isnt blue or green or purple, or... you'd say it, yes it is, it's yellow, and become increasingly hysterical, and then go quite berserk.

David Edgar
Mary Barnes

The one who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The one who walks alone is likely to discover places no one has ever been before. Creativity in living is not without its attendant difficulties; For peculiarity breed contempt. And the unfortunate thing about being ahead of your time is that when people finally realize you were right, they'll say it was obvious all along.You have two choices in life: you can dissolve into the mainstream or you can be distinct. To be distinct, you must be different. To be different, you must strive to be what no one else but you can be .

Thinking, long ago when we were young and free
Love happened easily
And dreams never died, life sung a pretty song
...
Cause I just can't stand the thought of life without you
...
Love happened suddenly
We couldn't see where we going wrong
Now those days are gone

The King's Singers
Now Those Days Are Gone
Chanson D'amour

What are these voices outside love's open door
Make us throw off our contentment, and beg for something more?

I'm learning to live without you now
But I miss you sometimes
The more I know, the less I understand
All the things I thought I knew, I'm learning again

Is that love I see in your eyes, or merely a reflection of mine?

A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive. To him... a touch is a blow, a sound is a noise, a misfortune is a tragedy, a joy is an ecstasy, a friend is a lover, a lover is a god, and failure is death. Add to this cruelly delicate organism the overpowering necessity to create, create, create -- so that without the creating of music or poetry or books or buildings or something of meaning, his very breath is cut off from him. He must create, must pour out creation. By some strange, unknown, inward urgency he is not really alive unless he is creating.

Okay, life's a fact, people do fall in love, people do belong to each other, because that's the only chance anybody's got for real happiness

Paul Varjak
Breakfast at Tiffany's

Happiness is an elusive thing, if youre chasing it and you're looking for it, you will never find it - Yogi

What I want is to be needed. What I need is to be indispensable to somebody. Who I need is somebody that will eat up all my free time, my ego, my attention. Somebody addicted to me. A mutual addiction.

Chuck Palahniuk
Choke

I know that you can love me, when there's no one left to blame.

Love is all a matter of timing. It's no good meeting the right person too soon or too late.

If God brings you to it, God will bring you through it.

That time was like never, and like always.
So we go there, where nothing is waiting;
we find everything waiting there.

Do you know the most surprising thing about a break up? It doesn't actually kill you. Like a bullet to the heart or a head-on car wreck. It should. When someone you've promised to cherish forever says "I don't know if i love you," it should kill you instantly. You shouldn't have to wake up day after day after that, trying to understand how in the world you didn't know. The light just never went on, you know. I must have known, of course, but I was too scared to see the truth. Then fear just makes you so stupid.

hahahahahaha 'Omg! This girl has it ALL...' hahahaha

But at times I wondered if I had not come a long way to find that what I really sought was something I had left behind.

Thomas Hornbein
book from Outward Bound New Zealand

Life, like some grand mosaic slowly loses hold over time, and the fragile strands that connect the many different parts unravels. The universe is a mirror, fragile and reflective, and we all stand in awe of our own human vanity. Fools see the universe as linear, absolute, all knowing. The wise see the universe as chaotic, unknown, fragile. Only on the verge of infinity can one see the fall apart universe. Sadness is knowing that we all stand upon a universe with a cracked glass bottom, and in an instant we may all sink into oblivion. Everything falls apart. Empires rise and crumble as tin soldiers hold plastic banners of righteous intent, all soaked with the blood of innocents. Hands raise and fall to the deafening sound of a million questions all unanswered. Love is just another unfelt emotion, talked about but never seen in full bloom. Love is only rumor and hearsay in the fall apart universe. Eventually we all must stand upon the jagged glass of the broken boundaries and broken promises. We must all suffer the soul bleeding that follows as the tattered splinters dig deep.

Patrick Goins
The Fall Apart Universe

I feel trapped, because I feel like ... if I go through life not hurting other people, then I hurt myself because I’m not fulfilled. But, if I do things that make me feel fulfilled – yet in the process, hurt other people – I feel guilty. Therefore I am still hurt. Because the guilt hurts, anyway...

annonymous

How long does it take to plan a trip to Thailand?!?

No one knows what *Blink* means!!!

What are you? Where did you come from? How long will you stay? Will you leave also?! What's the catch?

Life isn't about keeping score. It's not about how many people call you and it's not about who you've dated, are dating, or haven't dated at all. It isn't about who you've kissed, what sport you play, or which guy or girl likes you. It's not about your shoes or your hair or the color of your skin or where you live or go to school. In fact, it's not about grades, money, clothes, or colleges that accept you or not. Life isn't about if you have lots of friends, or if you are alone, and it's not about how accepted or unaccepted you are. Life just isn't about that. But life is about who you love and who you hurt. It's about how you feel about yourself. It's about trust, happiness, and compassion. It's about sticking up for your friends and replacing inner hate with love. Life is about avoiding jealousy, overcoming ignorance, and building confidence. It's about what you say and what you mean. It's about seeing people for who they are and not what they have. Most of all, it is about choosing to use your life to touch someone else's in a way that could never have been achieved otherwise. These choices are what life's about.

Nike

How can love not be questioned when one threatens the other with what the other trusted one with.

“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”

Somewhere beyond right and wrong, there is a garden. I will meet you there. RUMI

I'll miss you forever for everyday that you're not around.

The hardest part about being strong is that no one asks you how you're doing.

YOU'RE DOING FINE! TRUST ME!

CRAZY. STUPID. LOVE.

Have you ever needed someone so bad?
Have you ever wanted someone you just couldn't have?
Did you ever tried so hard
But your world just fall apart
Have you ever needed someone so bad?

Def Leppard
Have You Ever Needed Someone So Bad?
Adrenalise

That’s what troubles me. This notion that we have to take sides in this country now, you’re either with us or against us, Republican or Democrat, red state or blue state. No one looks at an issue and struggles over the right position to take anymore. And yet, our ability to reason is what makes us human. Lately, we seem so willing to forfeit that gift of reason in exchange for the good feeling of belonging to a group. We all just take the position of our team.

Alan Shore (James Spader)
Boston Legal: Squid Pro Quo

You know that song that asks, "Why do fools fall in love?"? I think the obvious answer is because they're fools.

Ellen Degeneres Show

Each day you leave me hanging I lose a little faith in you.

The guy I dreamed of doesn't exist. And if he doesn't exist, I'll never die of a broken heart.

Practical Magic

You don't die of a broken heart, you only wish you did.

Marilyn Peterson

The worst way to miss someone is to have them sitting beside you and knowing you can't have them.

You are JUST a tool of happiness in my life. That is as important or unimportant as you think.

fadas

I save the world in a way that it doesn't even ruin my manicure!!

fadas

People walk around today calling everyone their "best friend". The term doesn't have any real meaning anymore. Mere acquaintances are lavished with hugs and kisses upon a second or, at most, third meeting. Birthday cards get passed around offices, so everybody can scribble a snippet of sentimentality for a colleague they've barely met. And everyone just "loves" everyone. As a result, when you tell somebody you love them today, it isn't much heard.

William Shatner
Boston Legal, On the Ledge

Every religion seems like a fantasy to outsiders, but as holy truth to those of the faith.

Isaac Asimov

There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.

George Bernard Shaw

No one sacrifices the most important thing she possesses: love.

No one places their dreams in hands of those who might destroy them.

No one, that is, but Athena.

The Witch of Portobello

Paulo Coelho

We're fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance.

The Best team Lost.

Jose Mourinho

'I spend more time trying to sleep than i actually do sleeping'
Nishaan

I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown.

Woody Allen

You can always count on Americans to do the right thing... after they’ve tried everything else.

Winston Churchill

Look at everything as though you were seeing it for the first time or the last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.

Betty Smit

To some of us, reading the manual is conceding defeat.

Jason Q.

My skin burns for you, but I won't let you know. Every inch of distance from you is a crushing weight on my heart, but I won't move closer.
Every moment that I'm near you I have to fight not to touch you, every time I touch you it's hard to stop. When I slip my arms around you to kiss you I want to stay like that for hours. I smell of you, the feel of you, keep me sane and drive me crazy all at once. I see beauty in you that you deny, and others miss. I don't stop wanting you for a moment, even when you make me angry or irratate me.
I have to keep myself from clinging to you at night, and kissing you every chance I have. And maybe it's foolish to hold myself back, but I don't want to overwhelm you, and I don't want to leave my guard down for too long. I don't want to be the one who loves more, or if I am I don't want to know it.

Mouse 27th May 2006

I miss you... and I know you don't miss me.

It seems an obvious thing to say but you should not imagine that we Pakistanis are all potential terrorists, just as we should imagine that you Americans are all undercover assassins.

Reluctant Fundamentalist

Mohsin Hamid

It takes half the amount of time you dated someone to get over them.

And don't tell me God works in mysterious ways... There's nothing so mysterious about it. He's not working at all. He's playing. Or else He's forgotten all about us. That's the kind of God you people talk about - a country bumpkin, a clumsy, bungling, brainless, conceited, uncouth hayseed. Good God, how much reverence can you have for a Supreme Being who finds it necessary to include such phenomena as phlegm and tooth decay in His divine system of creation? What in the world was running through that warped, evil, scatalogical mind of His when He robbed old people of the power to control their bowel movements? Why in the world did He ever create pain?

Joseph Heller

If I wanted you to know what I was thinking, I would be talking to you.

Al Bundy
Married With Children

Depression may be an exaggerated form of a response to loss that in less extreme form is adaptive. A depressed mood slows us down, makes us think realistically rather than optimistically, makes us turn away from goals that we can no longer hope to achieve, and signals to others that this is a time in life when we need some help.

Peter Gray

It's scary sometimes when you consider that the smallest decision you make can totally change your life. A single choice and you might be hitching a ride down a totally different highway of life. And the disturbing part of all this is that you'll never know for sure what your life could be, would be, or should be. Gambles we all must take, but sometimes, the stakes are simply too high.

Jason Q.

I didn't believe in fate. I do now, to a certain extent. We might have independent thought and can make our own decisions, but we're still largely controlled (or limited) by the world around us. However, if you look at it from a different light, you'd realise that YOU might be someone else's fate. You might be the one determinant that controls the life of someone else.

Suddenly, quietly, you realize that - from this moment forth - you will no longer walk through this life alone. Like a new sun this awareness arises within you, freeing you from fear, opening your life. It is the beginning of love, and the end of all that came before.

Robert Frost

Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness

George Orwell

The strength of women is the facade of weakness, the weakness of men is the facade of strength.

The difference between head and heart is 'we' and 'I'.

I'm not a concept. Too many guys think I'm a concept or I complete them or I'm going to make them alive, but I'm just a fucked up girl who is looking for my own peace of mind. Don't assign me yours.

Kate Winslett
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

If you choose not to return, I will understand. Your absence will be of my own doing. But at the same time my existence will be utterly miserable without you by my side. I will shiver, for you are my warmth - I will be lonely, for you are my friend - I will be lost, for you are my guide. Everything good in me, no matter how small, you discover. I long to see your smile in the morning, to feel your touch in the evening. Please, Kathryn, return and grant me your forgiveness.

Cameron Wright
Letters for Emily

Maybe part of loving is learning to let go.

Fred Savage (Kevin Arnold)
The Wonder Years

I'm not going to stop torturing myself till I figure out the cause of my pain.

Matt Groening
The Sweet Revenge of What's Your Deal?

"it occurs to me that the lot of woman cannot be easy, who must suffer such inexpert male fumblings virtually on a daily basis."

THE HISTORY BOYS

Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as we expect it to be but as it is--is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.

Frederick Buechner
The Magnificent Defeat

I call it madness, she calls it love.

But now I had something I loved and venerated, I had an ideal again. Life was rich with intimations of mystery and a feeling of dawn that made me immune to all taunts. I had come home again to myself, even if only as the slave and servant of a cherished image.

Demian-Hermann Hesse

What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?

Ursula K. LeGuin

I hated myself... no, I hated my place in the world.

There are mysteries about our love. Things that neither one of us may ever understand because love is an emotion without limit and understanding. We know we love each other but we could never explain completely as WHY we love each other. Love is not a clock. You simply cannot take it apart just to see what makes it tick, and even if you could, you probably could never get it back together again.

I am forever changed, because of who you are, and what you have meant to me. Did I not mean enough to you to let me be who I was??

Good for you!!!

We do not need a reason to feel sad; nor do we need a reason to cry.

Jason Q.

17 steps to show the way...

If something doesn't go wrong, in the end it will be shown that it would have been ultimately beneficial for it to have gone wrong.

Dear Mr. Vernon,

We accept the fact that we had to sacrifice a whole saturday in detention for whatever it is we did wrong, but we think you're crazy for making us write an essay telling you who we think we are. You see us as you want to see us, in the simplest terms, in the most convenient definitions. But what we found out, is that each one of us is a brain, and an athlete, and a basketcase, a princess, and a criminal. Does that answer your question?

Sincerely Yours, The Breakfast Club.

The Breakfast Club

What happens when the same number of people pray for something as pray against it? How does God decide whose prayer to answer? Does the total number of people praying for or against something matter? How about the righteousness of the supplicants? Are positive prayers answered more frequently than negative ones? Does God take the positive ones and Satan the negative? Does the intensity of the praying have any effect on the outcome? Does the length of time one devotes to praying have any effect on the frequency with which one's prayers are answered? Do the words and phrases used in the prayer - either positive or negative - have any bearing on the success rate? Does the nature of the thing or things prayed for have any bearing on the prayer's success rate - either positive or negative prayers? Why or why not??

Robert A. Baker
"Prayer Wars" Skeptical Briefs

Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I asked, "Is life a multiple choice test or is it a true of false test?" Then a voice comes to me out of the dark, and says, "We hate to tell you this, but life is a thousand word essay."

Charlie Brown, Charles Schulz
Peanuts

If people only knew how much I secretly hated them, they'd love me for holding it in.

Matt Groening
The Sweet Revenge of What's Your Deal?

The opposite of love is not hate - it is indifference.

Every man has reminiscences which he would not tell to everyone but only his friends. He has other matters in his mind which he would not reveal even to his friends, but only to himself, and that in secret. But there are other things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Tom Robbins, Still Life with Woodpecker

'It's easier said than done.'
... and if you don't believe it, try proving that it's easier done than said, and you'll see that 'it's easier said that 'it's easier done than said' than it is done', which really proves that 'it's easier said than done'.

To the intelligent man or woman, life appears infinitely mysterious. But the stupid have an answer for every question.

Time passes in moments. Moments which, rushing past us, define the path of a life even as they fix upon its end. How rarely do we stop to examine that path? To see the reasons why all things happen. To consider whether the path we have taken is of our own making, or simply one into which we've drifted with eyes closed. But what if we were to stop? To take stock of each precious moment before it passes? Might we see the endless forks in the roads that shape our lives? And... seeing the choices we've made... choose another path?

(Scully) Gillian Anderson
The X-Files, All Things

You can't control who you love, ain't that the freakin' truth. What's worse is sometimes you don't even realize it until it's too late and there isn't any thing you can do about it. You fall in love with the wrong person, then you get to sit there and suffer, either because you can't be with them, or becuase they hurt you no matter how much you love them. Either way, it ends up tearing you up inside, makes your heart hurt and you try to find a way out. Working long hours, hanging out with other friends, pouring your soul onto things online, doing things to keep you distracted.

But it doesn't work, because only one thing can cure you and that one thing is the one you can't have. Time will lessen the pain, but it's the one thing I have no control over.

Reeza
23 Jul 2006

I think I'll always miss you.

Don't call me to say you love me... If you did you'd be with me right now!

Isn't it Crazy how we hold on strongest to people who'll leave us anyway...

A mighty pain to love it is,
And it is a pain that pain to miss;
But of all pains the greatest pain,
It is to love, but love in vain...

I always knew that looking back at my tears would make me laugh, but I never thought that looking back at my laughter would make me cry.

Cat Stevens

Are you here to stay or are you seasonal too?!

The opposite of love is not hate - it is indifference.

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Anna Louise Strong

Jason Q.

it was supposedly love.

FLAVOUR OF THE MONTH

Now that you are gone, the sun which you were in my life has vanished, and my world is dark and cold. I do miss you so much. I know that things have to move on and I am trying my best to cope.

I look forward to the end of the day when I can finally lie down and rest. I dream of you every night - beautiful, happy dreams. And there is nothing I fear more than waking up in the morning and finding you no longer beside me.

We're one
But we're not the same

One
Achtung Baby

We've danced in the risk of each other.
Would you like to dance around the world with me?

I'll Back You Up
Remember Two Things

Those who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty nor security.

If you judge people you have no time to love them.

Mother Theresa

Have you ever had the sensation of looking at someone for the first time and ever so quickly the past and future seem to fuse ? Does that not mean something ? That we felt so much, so deeply, before even speaking?

Charles Dickens
Nicholas Nickleby

A mighty pain to love it is,
And it is a pain that pain to miss;
But of all pains the greatest pain,
It is to love, but love in vain...

What you've done becomes the judge of what you're going to do especially in other people's minds. When you're traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.

William Least Heat Moon
Blue Highways

Are you still mine? I haven't heard from you, you used to call me every night or see me every week. I wonder if you think the same things about me, if you even bother to think of me. I know I'm gone now, I don't keep promises, I don't fight to know you. But looking at it from where I am, you havent tried to know me for quite a while. I am a mystery even to myself.
Maybe you still love me, but you love the person who you knew me as years ago. I'm not her, I'm alone with this person I am now and I'm terrified.
But I still wonder, when I'm trying not to think of how long it's been since I saw you or spoke to you, I wonder if you ever worry about me. Sometimes I worry about of you.

2005. No Rights.