Saturday, April 9, 2011

Friday, April 8, 2011

Why Cut Yourself

Why cut yourself when you can fall in love?

- Skins

We Decide

Everything that happens to us. The good and the bad is part of us, but it doesn't have to define who we are. We get to decide that.

- Sarah Sidle (CSI)

Vulnerable

To grow up is to accept vulnerability. To be alive is to be vulnerable.

- Madeleine L'Engle

Be a Good One

Whatever you are, be a good one.

- Abraham Lincoln

Truth

Unfortunately the truth makes everything else seem like a lie.

- Valentine's Day

Worthless

It's scary to know how many people actually feel like they worth nothing.

- Nick Vujicic

No Such Thing As Love

There's no such thing as love, it's a fantasy.

- Summer ((500) Days of Summer)

Unknown

It's very hard to smile. Sometimes in life there are things that happen that you don't know or you don't understand and you don't know if you're gonna get through it. You go through your storms in life and you don't know how long the storm's gonna be.

- Nick Vujicic

About Love

Find your place. Be happy with what you have. Treat everyone well. Live a good life. It isn't about material things; It's about love and you can never anticipate love.

- Vicki Myron

Feel with Heart

The best and most beautiful things in life cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with a heart.

- Helen Keller

Discover the Truth

All truths are easy to understand once they're discovered. The point is to discover them.

- Galileo Galilei

Trust

Trust is earned, never given.

- Unknown

Love Power

Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of its trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse for impossibility. For it thinks all things are lawful for itself and all things are possible.

- Thomas Kempis

Roll with It

If life gets too crazy, roll with it.

- Gil Grissom (CSI)

Scars

Some scars heal faster than others.

- Sarah Sidle (CSI)

Pill

There should be a pill that you can take to make love go away.

- The Women

Relationships

In a relationship you have to accept the other person for all of who they are and not just the parts that are easy to like, and you're stupid if you turn back on something as important as love.

- Valentine's Day

Everything is Alright

The most important things is having someone there to scoop you up, to hold you tight, and to tell you everything is alright.

- Vicki Myron

Family

The family is a haven in a heartless world.

- Christopher Lasch

Denial

Delay is the deadliest form of denial.

- C. Northcote Parkinson

Dreams

I think the truly natural things are dreams which nature can't touch with decay.

- Bob Dylan

Madness

I have loved to the point of madness; that which is called madness, that which to me is the only sensible way to love.

- Françoise Sagan

Secrets

There are no secrets better kept than the secrets that everybody guesses.

- George Bernard Shaw

Illusion of Communication

The single biggest problem with communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

- George Bernard Shaw

Love/Hope

No matter how dark the moment, love and hope are always possible.

- George Chakiris

Conscience

There is no witness so dreadful, no accuser so terrible as the conscience that dwells in the heart of every man.

- Polybius

Day Just Ends

Sometimes there are no words, no clever quotes, to neatly sum up what's happened that day. Sometimes the day just ends.

- Hotchner (Criminal Minds)

No Comfort in Secrets

Till we knew each other's secrets, what comforts we should find?

- John Churton Collins

Within Us

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Security

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature nor do the children of men as a whole experience it.

- Helen Keller

Life is a Game

Life is a game, play it. Life is too precious, do not destroy it.

- Mother Teresa

Sad Soul

A sad soul can kill you quicker far quicker than a germ.

- John Steinbeck

Destiny

Men heap together the mistakes of their lives and create a monster they call destiny.

- John Hobbes

Share Life

The good the bad that's just life, let it go. There's no need to fret about the past. The question is: Who are you going to share it with tomorrow.

- Vicki Myron

Liars

The minute people fall in love, they become liars.

- Harlan Ellison

First Appearance

Things are not always what they seem; the first appearance deceives many; the intelligence of a few perceives what has been carefully hidden.

- Phaedrus

We are All Insane

Let us consider that we are all insane, it will explain us to each other, it will unriddle many riddles.

- Mark Twain

Confession Suicide

There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession.

- Daniel Webster

Pursue an Idea

No man or woman who tries to pursue an idea in his or her own way is without enemies.

- Daisy Bates

The Child

...within the core of each of us is the child we once were. This child constitutes the foundation of what we have become who we are and what we will be.

- Dr. R. Joseph

Nature of Secrets

All secrets are deep. All secrets become dark. That's in the nature of secrets.

- Cory Doctorow

Be Yourself

God gave you the shoes that fit you, so put them on and wear them and be yourself. Be proud of who you are.

- Eminem (Beautiful)

Family

Other things may change us, but we start and end with family.

- Anthony Brandt

House

The house does not rest on the ground, but upon a woman.

- Mexican Proverb

Telling the Truth

In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

- George Orwell

Excess Love

When love is in excess, it brings a man no honour nor worthiness.

- Euripides

Question

The question that sometimes drives me crazy: Am I, or the others crazy?

- Albert Einstein

Life Counts

In the end it's not the years in your life that counts, it's the life in your years.

- Abraham Lincoln

Pain Thermometer

Everyone has a pain thermometer that goes from zero to ten. No one will make a change until they reach ten. Nine won't do, at nine you're still afraid. Only ten will move you, and when you're there you'll know. No one can make that decision for you.

- Dr. Charlene Bell

Delight in Sunshine

Birds sing after a storm. Why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever sunshine remains to them?

- Rose Kennedy

See Myself

Don't forget that I cannot see myself. That my role is limited to being the one who looks in the mirror.

- Jacques Rigaut

Better Yourself

Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

- William Faulkner

Never Give Up

Try again. Fail again. Fail Better.

- Samuel Beckett

Escaping Past

The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it or to escape what is bad in it, but we will escape it only by adding something better to it.

- Wendell Berry

For Yourself

Better to write for yourself and have no public than to write for the public and have no self.

- Cyril Connolly

True Happiness

Many persons have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness... It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

- Helen Keller

No Refuge

There is no refuge from memory and remorse in this world. The spirits of our foolish deeds haunts us, with or without repentance.

- Gilbert Parker

Love Till It Hurts

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts there can be no more hurt, only more love.

- Mother Teresa

Changing

I have changed. I don't know how I have changed, but every day I'm changing, and I'd never feel the same as I did before.

- Unknown

You Are Beautiful

Don't ever let anyone tell you, you ain't beautiful.

- Eminem (Beautiful)

Too Good To Be True

When someone seems too good to be true they usually are, but see when you're in it it's too hard to see.

- Eminem (Spend Some Time)

Experience

Experience is a brutal teacher, but you learn. My God do you learn.

- C. S. Lewis

Beautiful

You'd have to walk a thousand miles in my shoes
Just to see what it's like to be me
I'll be you
Let's trade shoes
Just to see what it'd be like to feel your pain
You feel mine
Go inside each other's minds
Just to see what we'd find
Look at shit through each other's eyes

Don't let them say you ain't beautiful
They can all get fucked
Just stay true to you

- Eminem (Beautiful)

Gentle Strength

Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as real strength.

- Ralph W. Sockman

Sentenced for Life

We're all of us sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins for life.

- Tenessee Williams

Hope is Torment

Hope is the worst of evils, for it prolongs the torments of men.

- Nietzsche

Who Am I

If I am what I have and if I lose what I have, who then am I?

- Erich Fromm

Scars Remind Us

Scars remind us of where we've been, they don't have to dictate where we're going.

- Rossi (Criminal Minds)

No Proof

For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible.

- Stuart Chase

Hurt Each Other

Finding new ways to hurt each other is what we're good at.

- Gideon (Criminal Minds)

Humiliation

The basis of shame is not some personal mistake of ours, but that this humiliation is seen by everyone.

- Milan Kundera

What We Don't Do

Sometimes what we don't do is every bit as powerful as what we do.

- Hotchner (Criminal Minds)

Not Depend

A woman must not depend on the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself.

- Susan B. Anthony

Listen

When a woman tells a man about her feelings, she doesn't want him to fix her, she wants him to shut up and listen.

- Emily Prentice (Criminal Minds)

Seared with Scars

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

- Kahlil Gibran

Love All

Love all. Trust a few. Do wrong to none.

- William Shakespeare

Wounds

It has been said, "time heals all wounds." I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue, and the pain lessens but it is never gone.

- Rose Kennedy

Faults of the Mind

The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up still there will be a scar left behind.

- François de la Rochefoucauld

Overcome

Although the world is full of suffering, it's full also of the overcoming it.

- Helen Keller

Happy Families

Happy families are all alike. Every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

- Leo Tolstoy

Desires

From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.

- Socrates

Belief

A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses; it is an idea that possesses the mind.

- Robert Oxton Bolt

Disguised

We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.

- François de la Rochefoucauld

Feel

Not knowing what you feel, that's not the same as not feeling anything.

- Gideon (Criminal Minds)

Words

There are some that only employ words for the purpose of disguising their thoughts.

- Voltaire

Revenge

Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure.

- Tacitus