Take a look at yourself in a mirror. Who do you see looking back? Is it the person you want to be? Or is there someone else you were meant to be, the person you should’ve been, but fell short of? Is someone telling you you can’t or you won’t? Because you can. Believe that love is out there. Believe that dreams come true every day. Because they do. Sometimes happiness doesn’t come from money or fame or power. Sometimes happiness comes from good friends and family and from the quiet nobility of leading a good life. Believe that dreams come true every day. Because they do. So take a look in that mirror and remind yourself to be happy because you deserve to be. Believe that. And believe that dreams come true every day. Because they do.

We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Four years ago, I was just a guy who had a crush on a girl, who had a boyfriend. And I had to do the hardest thing that I’ve ever had to do, which was just to… wait…And, a lot of people told me I was crazy to wait this long for a date with a girl I work with but I think, even then I knew that… I was waiting for my wife.” -Jim Halpert

"If you find a girl who reads, keep her close. When you find her up at 2 AM clutching a book to her chest and weeping, make her a cup of tea and hold her. You may lose her for a couple of hours but she will always come back to you. She’ll talk as if the characters in the book are real, because for a while, they always are. Date a girl who reads because you deserve it. You deserve a girl who can give you the most colorful life imaginable. If you can only give her monotony, and stale hours and half-baked proposals, then you’re better off alone. If you want the world and the worlds beyond it, date a girl who reads." - Rosemarie Urquico "Date A Girl Who Reads"

One of my favorite Margaret Cho moments: “I urge you all today, especially today during these times of chaos and war, to love yourself without reservations and to love each other without restraint. Unless you’re into leather. Then, by all means, use restraints.”

'You'll get over it...' It's the clichés that cause the trouble. To lose someone you love is to alter your life for ever. You don't get over it because 'it' is the person you loved. The pain stops, there are new people, but the gap never closes. How could it? The particularness of someone who mattered enough to grieve over is not erased by anyone but death.

"until then.. my days will get brighter with everyday that brings you closer to me."

“Courage is like a muscle. We strengthen it with use.” – Ruth Gordon

Black Friday is like the zombie apocalypse. You're either one of them, or you're hiding from them wherever you can and praying you don't get bit

TRUTH IS, you are my best friend and i love hanging out with you and you always make me smile no matter how hard i try not too, we text like all day everyday but we dont hangout as much as we could. i cant wait for tree lot to start so i can see you all the time and you should text me right now cuz we havent talked like all day. your pretty and adorable and i like everything about you, your wierd but a good wierd and i like that alot too. you give good hugs and your my favorite person to be with. i ♥ u

i'm absolutely crazy. i'm feeling the wind and i'm feeling the fire. it's absolutely necessary for me to run around in the rain at all hours of the night. it's necessary for me blast my most depressing three days grace songs and sing them with a smile. i need to be busy, i need to be active, i need you. i love to jump and run and hug and kiss and laugh, at myself, every single day. weird is the way i like things. i've been smiling so much. high school is overrated guys, these are the good years. i think i'm young and positively naive, and wouldn't change a single second of it. hey, Mia Graves...i love you :)i love being niave with you. or wait... do they call us immature? either way...point of this post is...well there is no point... goodnight :)

~A.B.

'These are our children. We spend all of our lives working hard and raising them so they don't humiliate us, and what do we get?!' -Morel Orel

You can't run away from love... Because in the end love is what your running to

You may not be her first, her last, or her only. She loved before she may love again. But if she loves you now, what else matters? She's not perfect - you aren't either, and the two of you may never be perfect together but if she can make you laugh, cause you to think twice, and admit to being human and making mistakes, hold onto her and give her the most you can. She may not be thinking about you every second of the day, but she will give you a part of her that she knows you can break - her heart. So don't hurt her, don't change her, don't analyze and don't expect more than she can give. Smile when she makes you happy, let her know when she makes you mad, and miss her when she's not there

"I've got dreams like you, NO REALLY, just much less...touchy feeley....that mainly happen somewhere warm and sunny! On an island that I own, un-arrested and alone! .....surrounded by enormous piles of money!"
-Eugene, Tangled

Emily 'Jacks' Jackson: An early departure? What are the chances of that? If this was a movie, there wouldn't be an early departure.
Peter Simon: If this was a movie, you'd be blonde.
Emily 'Jacks' Jackson: If this was a movie, you'd be famous.
Peter Simon: That's the problem with life. It's nothing like movies.

Love and Other Disasters

Emily 'Jacks' Jackson: I'm not so sure. Love isn't always a lightning bolt, you know? Maybe sometimes it's just a choice.
Peter Simon: Well, that's easy for you to say! You're flying to Argentina to meet the love of your life!
Emily 'Jacks' Jackson: That's just it. I don't know that Paolo's the love of my life, but I've decided to give him the chance to be. Maybe true love is a decision. You know, a decision to take a chance with somebody, to give to somebody without worrying whether they'll give anything back, or if they're gonna hurt you, or if they really are the one. Maybe love isn't something that happens to you. Maybe it's something you have to choose.

“Girls are like apples...the best ones are at the top of the trees. The boys don't want to reach for the good ones because they are afraid of falling and getting hurt. Instead, they just get the rotten apples that are on the ground that aren't as good, but easy. So the apples at the top think there is something wrong with them, when, in reality, they are amazing. They just have to wait for the right boy to come along, the one who's brave enough to climb all the way to the top of the tree...”
― Pete Wentz

we just have to wait it out

Let God be your anchor during the times when you feel like the raging waters of life are trying to sweep you away. ♥.

‎"Don't be so driven by your past that you throw away your future." ~ Kate Beckett

There is one moment in your life when you are with someone and you feel like the world has stopped and your life seems perfect, make sure you never lose that person. ;) #JustSayin'

go egg a house, have a drag race in shopping carts, play chicken against a minivan, cut down a tree with a steak knife, write an article about how the chicken regrets crossing the road and submit it to the new yorker, paint a mural on the side of your garage. sell a family picture on ebay, buy the most random thing for a penny on ebay.com, have a house party at some random person's house that on vacation, climb to the top of a mountain then while your on the tallest point tell the first person you see that you "took too much acid", go to the mall and whisper in a stranger's ear "if obama was a cow he'd be mad"
that's just a short list of all the things you could possibly be doing.

“No matter how dark your days may seem, no matter how insignificant you may feel, no matter how overshadowed you think you may be, your Heavenly Father has not forgotten you. In fact, He loves you, with an infinite love.”

President Dieter F. Uchtdorf

A place in mind for memories to reside.

funny. i hate that i dont actively remember ENJOYING that size.. i need to start enjoying EVERY smaller size i get to .

"Belle taught me to read, and be kind. Pocahontas taught me to see past skin, and differences. Ariel taught me to chase my dreams to the very end. Jasmine taught me to marvel at my self worth, and remember it throughout my life. Mulan taught me the meaning and value of honor. Hercules taught me to be a hero, in my own way. And Simba taught me that death isn't as terrifying as you may guess, and we're never alone.

dorothy parker

DISTANCE
Were you to cross the world, my dear
To work or love or fight,
I could be calm and wistful here,
And close my eyes at night.

It were a sweet and gallant pain
To be a sea apart;
But, oh, to have you down the lane
Is bitter to my heart.

We don't die because we are old, we die when we are complete. I like that thought. I don't ever want to be old but I do want to be complete. Always strive for completeness.

Just because somebody doesn't love you the way you want them to doesn't mean they don't love you with everything they got

The one who loves least controls the relationship

My biggest mistake wasn't falling for you, it was thinking you had fallen for me too.

Trust me, I know how it feels. I know how it hurts. I know you cry in the shower so no one will hear your screams. I know you wait until everyone goes to sleep to fall apart. Its not always easy but I know exactly what that feels like.

To love is to risk not being loved in return. To hope is to risk pain. To try is to risk failure, but risk must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.

My heart was taken by you, broken by you and now is in pieces because of you.

Many men kill themselves for love, but many more women die of it

Goodbye without reasons is the most painful one. Love without reasons is the most beautiful one.

Boys are like stars, there are millions of them out there, but only one can make your dreams come true

Ignore the risk, and take the fall, if it's meant to be, it's worth it all

I get the best feeling in the world when you say hi or even smile at me because I know, even if its just for a second, that I've crossed your mind.
UNKNOWN quotes

LOVE: We think about it, Sing about it, Dream about it && Loose sleep worrying about it. When we don't know we have it, we search for it. When we discover it, we don't know what to do with it. When we have it, we fear loosing it. It is the constant source of pleasure and pain. But we don't know which it will be from one moment to the next. It is a short word, easy to spell, difficult to define && IMPOSSIBLE to live without.

Breakfast at Tiffany's

You know what's wrong with you, Miss Whoever-you-are? You're chicken, you've got no guts. You're afraid to stick out your chin and say, "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." You call yourself a free spirit, a "wild thing," and you're terrified somebody's gonna stick you in a cage. Well baby, you're already in that cage. You built it yourself. And it's not bounded in the west by Tulip, Texas, or in the east by Somali-land. It's wherever you go. Because no matter where you run, you just end up running into yourself

" Those lips looked tasty, especially when they said things like ' i jumped up every time someone knocked, hoping it's be you"
— Lauren Kate (Fallen)

"Her heart was pounding impossibly fast. Then she realized She was feeling both of their hearts, racing each other. A kind of desperate conversation, one they couldn't have with words."
— Lauren Kate (Fallen)

"People who are chronically tardy never understand the many ways in which they screw up the schedules of people who are punctual and 'normal'..."
— Lauren Kate (Fallen)

"She buried her face in his shoulder. And while the truth still scared her, being in his arms made her feel like the sea finding its shore, like a traveler returning after a long, hard, distant trip-- finally returning home."
— Lauren Kate (Fallen)

"What if the one you were meant to be with, could never be yours?"
— Lauren Kate (Fallen)

"I don't understand what you're still doing here."
She blinked and nodded miserably, then began to turn away.
"No!" He pulled her back. "Don't leave. It's just that you've never—we've never... gotten this far." He closed his eyes. "Will you say it again?" he asked, almost shyly. "Will you tell me ... what I am?"
"You're an angel," she repeated slowly, surprised to see Daniel close his eyes and moan in pleasure, almost as if they were kissing. "I'm in love with an angel."
— Lauren Kate (Fallen)

"The only way to survive eternity is to be able to appreciate each moment."
— Lauren Kate (Fallen)

"Trust is a careless pursuit at best. At worst, it's a good way to get yourself killed."

Love is a temporary madness; it erupts like volcanoes and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of eternal passion. That is just being in love, which any fool can do. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident. Those that truly love have roots that grow towards each other underground, and when all the pretty blossoms have fallen from their branches, they find that they are one tree and not two.

"We are never more open to seeing the world and ourselves in a new light than when we are in crisis."

When a person cannot answer directly to your question probably the answer is too painful for you to know or too hard for them to admit.

"Life is like a box of crayons. Most people are the 8 color boxes, but what you're really looking for are the 64 color boxes with the sharpeners on the back. I fancy myself to be a 64 color box, though I've got a few missing. It's okay though, because I've got some more vibrant colors like periwinkle at my disposal. I have a bit of a problem though in that I can only meet the 8 color boxes. Does anyone else have that problem? I mean there are so many different colors of life, of feeling, of articulation. So when I meet someone who's an 8 color type...I'm like, hey girl, Magenta! and she's like, oh, you mean purple! and she goes off on her purple thing, and I'm like, no I want Magenta!"
— John Mayer

"Everytime you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing."
— Mother Teresa

Unless you choose to take action on what you want, nothing is ever going to come out of it.. you drown not by falling into a river, but staying submerged in it.

Somewhere along that windy road. I had tried to find you..

Every girl has that one guy she goes back to, heartbreak after heartbreak, & nobody knows why, not even her. & she just can't let go.

You can never "just be friends" with somebody you used to love...simply because a little part of you will ALWAYS love them.

#iloveyoubecause holding your hand and staring into your eyes makes everything okay. Thank you

Every girl has three guys in her life: the one she loves, hates, and the one she can't live without. In the end, they're all the same guy.

The worst feeling is when someone makes you feel special, then suddenly leaves you hanging and you have to act like you don’t care at all.

I want to think about you all the time, tell you how much I love you, and how much I don't wanna ever lose you.

You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back. — Barbara De Angelis

A conclusion is the place u get to when ur tired of thinking

Never miss an opportunity to shut up

I hope you're doing fine without me, because I'm not doing too good without you.

Don't let people with "walk on" parts in your life upset you... they'll be gone in a matter of minutes

The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it - Anon.

"You wouldn't have to change for me Bella. I'm in love with you, and I want you to pick me instead of him." - Jacob Black

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are. - Jason Mraz

Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that connot be torn...so that we see ourselves as we really are. 'Arthur Golden'

"Hope is grief's best music." - Anonymous

honesty hurts a lot less then the lies and awkward silences
~me

When you actually matter

When you actually matter to a person they will make time for you. No Lies. No excuses

patience is a virtue but waiting is a bitch
M Giffard

If you find a friend that it is an easy pleasure to talk to. Someone who it is an easy pleasure to be equally quiet with... someone kindred. Keep them. They do not come around as often as you think. They are priceless treasures

Debbie

When you were young, there was something someone noticed about you that revealed your budding talents. Remember the time you heard that and thought, "Hey, I'm different in this one way from everybody else". Well, that was the first step on a path to finding 'you'. Keep going no matter what
Debbie

"When 'man shopping' for eternal relationships. Watch what he does and ignore what he says. That will tell you all you need to know" Debbie

“I'd get the wierdest looks because when a bunch of guys are naked...You really don't sing Ceiline.”
“You have like this subtle oddness going on…Almost serial killer in mannarisms”

The Wonderful Eric Hickam

"i know the spark inside your eyes was just a match i used to set myself on fire" -Bayside 'Devotion and Desire'

found on Living For Eden

Time, precious time
How quickly the leaves fall from the tree.
Time, oh precious time
In a blink of an eye a child grows old.
And in the pursuit of joy and happiness
Lies time
But quickly it fades
And all we have are memories
Precious moments
Remembered in time.

Looking at him would be like looking directly at the sun. Amazing but stupid
S.M

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

when you love someplace.someone.something so much that you miss it. then before it.their gone, you're in love.

the glorious sunset of my heart was fading...

The Unwritten Rule by Elizabeth Scott

"In The World Of Friendship, I'm awful" ~pg4

"Imagine a guy.He's taller than you, with perfect skin, skin that just screams "touch me!" and dark hair and gorgeous blue eyes and he looks so sweet and he is sweet. And then have him blush a little." ~pg16

""It was fun," Ryan says, which is a nice thing to say, a him thing to say, but when I look at him, one more look before he goes back to the party, to my best friend, he's looking at me like-
Well, like he wants to look at me. Like he likes what he sees, and he's smiling and his eyes are so blue, even in the faint glow of the porch light they shine, and I nod dumbly, blindly, and then grope for the door handle, telling myself to look away and yet not able to do it.
"Sarah," he says, softly, almost hesitantly, and mmy heart slam-bangs, beating hard, and this is what its like to want someone you cant have. To want someone you shouldn't even be looking at." ~pg36

"How does the eye shadow look?"
"Gorgeous," I say, and stand up, look at myself in the mirror. "How about me? How do I look?"
"Like Sarah," she says, and comes and stands behind me, hugging me and grinning at our reflection. "Like my best friend."
Not gorgeous. Not even pretty. I look like myself, whatever that means.
I know what it means, its nothing good. Its Ordinary. Boring.
Alone." ~pg65

"I wonder if there are sisters out there where one feels like she's a shadow of the other. If there's a girl with a sister who sometimes makes her feel like nothing." ~pg68

"In every breath I take there is the promise of his skin touching mine and i want that." ~pg82

"It was like we were all so busy trying to be happy or saying we are happy, but underneath there was nothing but bitterness, the kind that could only be bled out in ink, in unspoken words." ~pg100

"I am broken, I have cut myself wide open. I can see my heart and it is not what I believed it was, it is not good and kind and all the things I have always thought I am." ~pg116

"Right now, I hate My life way more than I hate me." ~pg122

"I think having a stupid heart is pretty damn painful, even if the pain isn't physical." ~pg132

"I need a cause to believe in. Something to fill the space in my heart that Ryan has written all over. Something noble, like fighting a disease." ~pg134

"I'm not that happy now, But I'll fake it until its real and things are normal again." ~pg135

"Do you ever wonder if people really know what they're supposed to do? Os there a moment where you just know what you're supposed to do forever?" ~pg138

"I've been taught that love is beautiful and kind, but it isn't like that at all. It is beautiful, but its a terrible beauty, a ruthless one, and you fall- you fall, and the thing is-
the thing is you want to. You don't care whats coming, you just want who your heart beats for." ~pg158

"Guilt and panic are making a mess of my insides. Of me." ~pg174

""Sometimes... sometimes you have to let people go," She says. "Brianna loves you, Sarah, but I don't think she was always a good friend to you."" ~pg200

"All the things I've thought about love are true. Its beautiful and terrible and it doesn't make things perfect. It ends things, and it brings beginnings." ~pg210

The Average heart beats about 43 hundred times an hour, that's 800 thousand times a week, 9 million times in a crisp fall and 2.7 billion beats in a lifetime. Well What is an Average heart anyway? And how many beats do broken hearts get?

"I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside. "
— F. Scott Fitzgerald

"That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong."
— F. Scott Fitzgerald

If I had to choose between being a heart or a brain I'd definitely choose a heart because at least you'd do something. If you're a brain, at the end of the day all you're really at is settling for shitty situations.