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So we took down all the pictures, and then we took down all the walls. Packed up our expectations and piled them in the hall.
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I'm losing my love of adventure. I'm losing all respect for me and myself tonight. I wonder what happens if I get to the end of this tunnel and there isn't a light.
3
I said I think we need new responses; each question is a revolving door. And she said, yeah, my life may not be something special, but it's never been lived before.
4
Ideas came with explosive immediacy, like an instant birth. Human thought is like a monstrous pendulum; it keeps swinging from one extreme to the other.
5
All is well. You did not come here to fix a broken world. The world is not broken. You came here to live a wonderful life. And if you can learn to relax a little and let it all in, you will begin to see the universe present you with all that you have asked for.
6
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
7
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 someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses. You build up a whole armor, for years, so 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 did something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so simple a phrase like 'maybe we should just be friends' or 'how very perceptive' turns into a glass splinter 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, a real get-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. nothing should be able to do that. Especially not love.
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Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.
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Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past you. And the part of you that knows it was wrong to imprison them in the first place rejoices, but still, the place where you live is that much more drab and empty for their departure.
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| After the game, the king and the pawn go into the same box.
- Italian Proverb
Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think.
- La Bruyere
Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are no classes in life for beginners: right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult.
- Rainer Maria Rilke
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
- Albert Einstein
The worst thing you can try to do is cling to something that is gone, or to recreate it.
- Johnette Napolitano
We don't live in a world of reality, we live in a world of perceptions.
- Gerald J. Simmons
The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing in them.
- Bernard M. Baruch
There is more to live than increasing its speed.
- Mahatma Ghandi
The aim of education should be to teach us how to think, rather than what to think.
- James Beattie
A man who dares waste one hour of time has not discovered the values of life.
- Charles Darwin
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.
- Roy Disney
Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.
- Helen Keller
I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.
- Martha Washington
Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up.
- Jesse Jackson
Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
- Howard Thurman
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| In the end, we won't remember the words of our enemies, but we will remember the silence of our friends.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
There have been lots of ups and downs, but ultimately at the
end of the day, that's what makes you who you are. We all know how to
laugh, we all know how to cry, we all know how to love back, and we're
all familier with heartbreak, but the world keeps moving and we keep
moving with it and everything we experience helps us realize how
beautiful life really is.
It's the people you hug and never want to let go. The people you
haven't seen in years, but they haven't changed at all. The people who
give more to you than you give to them. The people who truly understand
who you are. The people you cry about. The ones you live for. It's the
people in your photographs with genuine light shining through their
eyes and smile. The people who take your breath away.
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The truth is, there is no line. There's only your life, how you mess it up, and who is there to save you. Or who isn't.
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"I'm trying to find myself as a person, sometimes that's not easy to do.
Millions of people live their entire lives without finding themselves.
But it is something I must do." - Marilyn Monroe
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We all have different desires and needs, but if we don't discover what we want from ourselves and what we stand for, we will live passively and unfulfilled.
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"Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die
young, but then you'd never complete your life, would you? You'd never wholly know you”-Marilyn Monroe
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who are you to judge the life i live? i know i'm not perfect- and i don't live to be, but before you start pointing fingers; make sure your hands are clean - bob marley
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"In Hollywood a girl's virtue is much less important than her hairdo.
You're judged by how you look, not by what you are. Hollywood's a place
where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for kiss, and fifty cents for
your soul. I know, because I turned down the first offer often enough
and held out for the fifty." - Marilyn Monroe
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"The real lover is the man who can thrill you by touching your head or smiling into your eyes or just staring into space." - Marilyn Monroe
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don't send me mixed signals, i don't like the confusion that it
brings. i'd rather have the honest truth, even if it hurts because then
i won't be wasting my time depending on false hope to keep me hanging
on.
two
have you ever had to choose between two people? especially when
the one you choose is going to be the one you'll be with, and the one
you don't just might not be the same anymore when you see them? the
decision had to be made somehow, but you just don't know what to do.
one gets along with your friends, but you feel more comfortable around
the other. one makes you smile and can talk about almost anything with
them, but you realize that you simply just have much stronger feelings
for the other. how many times have your friends told you to just follow
your heart, yet they tell you who to pick anyways? no matter how hard
you wanted to decide who to pick, you just couldn't seem to make a
choice. you eventually stress yourself out about this. there's only one
thing you can do though. you make them wait. obviously right now you
can't determine who you have stronger feelings for, so why not make
them wait and see who has stronger feelings for you? whoever really
truly believes they can be with you obviously likes you a lot and is
willing to wait for you.
three
you can hide a lot about yourself. you can hide embarrassment, you
can hide anger, and you can even hide shame. but you can't hide a smile.
four
the most important thing in life is to find yourself. know who
you are at all times, and stand by that for the rest of your life.
five
when i was 5 years old, my mom always told me that happiness was
the key to life. when i went to school, they asked me what i wanted to
be when i grew up. i wrote down "happy" they told me i didn't
understand the assignment, & i told them they didn't understand
life.
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tell your family you love them everyday, give your best friend
the biggest hug in the world, and cherish every moment you share with
your lover, because you never know when it will be your last time
experiencing it.
seven
how can you move on if you are still living in the past? snd how
can you step forward, leaving the past behind, if you can't even begin
to forgive what the past holds? how can you love someone for who they
are, yet want to hate them for what they've done? i guess that's what
it boils down to is this - there are always those defining moments,
times that makes us or breaks us, build us or tear us apart, help us
progress further or stop us dead in our tracks. and for whichever way
we may choose, there's a consequence of equal value. it's a true test
of what we stand for, where we came from, &where we are going.
these are moments that we live for, breathe for, & fight for. these
are the defining moments that leave imprints forever in our hearts,
making our souls forever. these are choices that could bring you one
step closer to forever or leaving you hostage to the past. i guess in
order to move on from the past you must learn to forgive it. and
forgiving may mean letting go.
we don't remember days; we remember moments.
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