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"We don't live in the world of reality,
we live in the world of how we perceive reality."
"Sometimes your mind doesn't want you to be in love
when deep down, you know you are..."
"People told me I shouldn't take everything
too seriously, and I didn't listen.
Now I wish I had, because I tormented
myself over every little thing.
What's bad is when you get to age 19,
you're looking back thinking, 'I wish I could
be young again and just have a better time.'"
~Anonymous~
"Music touches feelings that words cannot."
"It's so important for me to hold on to the memories,
but sometimes I have to wonder whether the memories
are the things that are holding me back from letting go."
"Just remember all...that words are powerful, so very
powerful, that it can change attitudes (for the better or
for the worse), with or without provocation. They can be
triggers, reminders, movers, and motives...Be kind with
your words and listen to positive messages in things that
we have in common...Communication in the ways that make
a positive impact and even possibly profitable (new
friendships, good feelings, etc.) for all parties, is the key."
~Anonymous~
"The more I look around and listen
I realize that I'm not alone.
We are all facing choices that define us.
No choice, however messy, is without importance
in the overall picture of our lives.
We all at our own age have to claim something,
even if it's only our own confusion.
I am in the middle of growing up and into myself. "
~Sabrina Ward Harrison~
"I'm so afraid to care about someone.
I know it seems like I'm this strong girl
who can get through everything,
but inside I'm very fragile.
I've had so many things thrown at me,
and each one has only made a crack.
What I'm afraid of is shattering."
"What if reality doesn't live up to the dream?"
"Have I ever really been happy?
Or was I just making sure
that everyone else was happy?"
~Once and Again~
"Everything in life that we really accept undergoes change."
~Katherine Mansfield~
"I always distrust people who know so much about
what God wants them to do to their fellows."
~Susan B. Anthony~
"There is no incidental music to the dramas of real life."
~Sax Rohmer~
"Every time we give our word, it counts.
For the most part, most people
give it entirely too often.
Our word is a precious commodity
and should be treated as such."
~John-Roger and Peter McWilliams~
"There's a little truth to every 'just kidding'."
"I would rather be angry hearing the truth
than be mad hearing a lie."
"True love is when you can't explain why you need him."
"I've spent so much time hiding how I feel.
Now I want to be in the spotlight,
and I want to make people listen to me."
~Anonymous~
"Sometimes it takes years to really grasp
what has happened to your life."
~Wilma Rudolph~
"Sometimes I wish I were a little kid again...
skinned knees are easier to fix than broken hearts."
"4 out of 5 voices in my head say go back to sleep."
"No one is perfect until you're in love with them."
"People change and forget to tell each other."
~Lillian Hellman~
"Unique is an understatement.
I'm just messed up."
"Okay, who stopped the payment on my reality check?"
"My life needs a rewind/erase button."
~"Calvin and Hobbes"~
"Why is it that every guy I like, I can't have?"
"Nothing improves your memory like trying to forget."
"People don't see the world as it is, but as they are."
"If you want to increase your insanity,
avoid the asylum."
~Amy Cameron Farmer~
"Hear the meaning within the word."
~William Shakespeare~
"Behavior is a much better barometer
of what you are than words."
~Wayne Dyer~
"Love is when you look in someone's eyes,
and you don't just see what they look like,
you see into their soul."
"You laugh because I'm different.
I laugh because you're all the same."
"If the only way to be with you is in my dreams,
I wanna sleep forever."
"Anyone who isn't confused really
doesn't understand the situation."
~Edward R. Murrow~
"Warning: dates in calendar are closer than they appear."
"I'm not talking to myself,
I'm just the the only one thats listening."
"We run away all the time to avoid
coming face to face with ourselves."
"Life is like the mail.
Sometimes you just don't get it."
"The ability to delude yourself
may be an important survival tool."
~Jane Wagner~
"Our prime purpose in this life is to help others.
And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them."
~The Dalai Lama~
"Most plain girls are virtuous because of the
scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise."
~Maya Angelou~
"Everyone seems normal until you get to know them."
"In your life, you meet people.
Some you never think about again.
Some, you wonder what happened to them.
There are some that you wonder if
they ever think about you.
And then there are some you wish
you never had to think about again.
But you do."
"Well, you know when you're rocking in a rocking chair,
and you go so far that you almost fall over backwards,
but at the last instant you catch yourself?
That's how I feel all the time."
~Steven Wright~
"There's nothing wrong with building dream castles
as long as you don't try to move in."
"The truth will set you free,
but first it will make you miserable."
"You seldom listen to me,
and when you do you don't hear,
and when you do hear you hear wrong,
and even when you hear right you change
it so fast that it's never the same."
~Marjorie Kellogg~
"Listening looks easy,
but it's not simple.
Every head is a world."
~Cuban Proverb~
"The way you treat yourself sets the standard for others."
~Sonya Friedman~
"Not only is life a bitch,
but it is always having puppies."
~Adrienne Gusoff~
"Tears are the rinse water of an unhappy heart."
~Raynor Schein~
"Sometimes all you really wish for
is someone to wish for you."
"Sometimes I just wish it were greener on my side."
~Chris Loncar~
"If it weren't for the last minute,
nothing would get done."
"I think I'd have a more positive outlook if all
kinds of good things would start happening."
"It is often hard to bear tears that we ourselves have caused."
"Always think before you speak,
especially if what you are going to
say is exactly what you think."
"Leaving never hurts as much as being left behind."
"It's true,
no matter how happy you are now,
or how far away,
you still dream of going back."
"If confusion is the first step
to knowledge, I must be a genius."
"Why can't we just get together all the people
in the world that we really like? And then stay together?
I guess that wouldn't work though. Someone would leave.
Someone always leaves. And then we'd have to say good-bye.
I hate good-byes. I know what I need. I need more hellos."
"A synonym is a word you use when you
can't spell the word you first thought of."
"Have you ever wondered which hurts the most;
saying something you wish you had not,
or not saying something you wish you had."
"Why do I get the feeling that someday
I'll be describing this to a psychiatrist?"
"Loving someone that doesn't love you
is like reaching for a star.
You know you'll never reach it
but you just have to keep trying."
"Some things in life are waiting for...
even if they keep you waiting forever..."
"The cure for boredom is curiosity.
There is no cure for curiosity."
"This sucks more than anything that's ever sucked before."
"Just because I'm moody, doesn't mean you're not annoying."
"Sometimes, no matter how long
or how much you love someone,
they will never love you back,
and somehow you have to
learn to be okay with that."
"When something important is going on, silence is a lie."
"Little things console us because little things afflict us."
"Sanity is a cozy lie."
~Susan Sontag~
"To be alone is to be different,
to be different is to be alone."
~Suzanne Gordon~
"A Freudian slip is when you mean
one thing and say your mother."
"Schizophrenia beats dining alone."
"The love you can't have
lasts the longest,
feels the strongest
and hurts the most."
"Dare to be naive."
~R. Buckminster Fuller~
"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~
"There is one part of me missing...
I never knew what it was until now.
I know what it is, but it kills me
to know that I can't have it."
"When I use a word,
it means just what I choose it to mean
neither more nor less."
~Lewis Carroll~
"Depression is melancholy minus its charms."
~Susan Sontag~
"I don't want anyone else to get the chance
to realize how amazing you really are."
"When you think you've found the perfect guy,
stop and think, 'why isn't he taken?'"
"If you smile when no one else is around,
you really mean it."
~Andy Rooney~
"I tend to live in the past because most of my life is there."
~Herb Caen~
"To move forward, I have to let go."
"Do you ever put your arms out
and spin and spin and spin,
really really fast?
Well that's what love is like.
It makes your heart race,
it turns the world upside down...
but if you're not careful,
if you don't keep your eye on something still,
you could lose your balance.
You can't see what's happening
to the people around you...
you can't see that you're about to fall."
"Guys: When a girl is speaking to you,
listen to what she says with her eyes."
"Let's say there was a little girl,
and from the time she was able to understand,
she was taught to fear...
let's say that she was taught to fear daylight.
She was taught that it was her enemy,
that it would hurt her.
And one sunny day you ask her to go outside and play,
but she won't.
You can't be angry at her can you?"
"Falling in love is just that-falling.
Sometimes you merely trip and stub your toe.
Sometimes you fall to your hands and knees.
But sometimes you smack your head
against the pavement and die."
"I suppose it was something you said
That caused me to tighten
And pull away.
And when you asked,
'What is it?'
I, of course, said,
'Nothing.'
Whenever I say, 'Nothing,'
You may be very certain there is something.
The something is a cold, hard lump of
Nothing."
~Lois Wyse~
"I know I'm supposed to hate you...
I've been trying to for so long.
But even after everything
that's been said and done,
I still want to wipe away your tears.
I still want you to be happy
and I still miss what I lost.
I still miss you..."
"Much unhappiness has come into the world
because of bewilderment and things left unsaid."
~Fyodor Dostoyevsky~
"Men learn to love the women they are attracted to,
and women are attracted to the men they love."
~"sex, lies, and videotape"~
"We fear the thing we want the most."
~Robert Anthony~
"Does anal retentive have a hyphen?"
"I want you to know,
but then again I don't...
Life is so complicated!"
"I was going to buy a copy of 'The Power of
Positive Thinking', and then I thought:
What the hell good would that do?"
~Ronnie Shakes~
"You come into the world alone
and you go out of the world alone
yet it seems to me you are more alone
while living than even going and coming."
~Emily Carr~
"Know what's weird? Day by day nothing seems to change,
but pretty soon, everything's different."
"If it's real, if it's true love,
then it'll always be there.
You can pretend it's gone
and even move on,
but that love,
it's still there.
In the depths of your mind,
sometimes a single object or song
triggers it all and you're
right back where you started;
in the arms of the one you lost."
"The most basic of all human needs is the
need to understand and be understood.
The best way to understand people
is to listen to them."
~Ralph Nichols~
"Screw you, I'm brilliant."
~"Save the Last Dance"~
"I've learned that...
you shouldn't compare yourself to others
they are more screwed up than you think."
"So when you are listening to somebody,
completely, attentively, then you are
listening not only to the words, but also
to the feeling of what is being conveyed,
to the whole of it, not part of it."
~Jiddu Krishnamurti~
"Throughout life you will meet one person who is unlike any other,
you could talk to this person for hours and never get bored,
you could tell them things and they won't judge you...
this person is your soulmate, your best friend...
don't ever let them go."
"You have no idea what a poor opinion
I have of myself and how little I deserve it."
~W. S. Gilbert~
"I finally got it together...
but where is it??"
"I wouldn't be broke if the voices
in my head paid rent."
"Sometimes the love of your life is
right in front of your face but
too close for your eyes to see,
so close your eyes
and let your heart take a look."
"You don't get to choose,
you just fall in love.
And you get this person who is
all wrong and all right at the same time.
And you know that you love them so much,
except sometimes they just
drive you completely insane
and no one can explain it and the reason
it's so confusing is because it's love.
But if love didn't have any challenges,
what would be the point?"
"Listen to your intuition.
It will tell you everything you need to know."
~Anthony J. D'Angelo~
"I want to write, but more than that,
I want to bring out all kinds of things
that lie buried in my heart."
~Anne Frank~
"I fell in love with you the second I laid eyes on you.
It had nothing to do with the way you looked.
There was something in your eyes.
Then I found out what was in your heart."
"Don't say you love me unless you mean it,
'cause I might just do something crazy...
like believe it."
"It's true that we don't know what
we've got we've got 'til we loose it,
but it's also true that we don't know what
we've been missing until it arrives."
"Murphy's Law:
Nothing is as easy as it looks.
Everything takes longer than you expect.
And if anything can go wrong,
It will at the worst possible moment."
"Sometimes I wonder who he's picturing
when he looks at me and smiles."
"A friend of mine once sent me a post card
with a picture of the entire planet Earth
taken from space. On the back it said,
'Wish you were here.'"
~Steven Wright~
"Subtlety is the art of saying what you think
and getting out of the way before it is understood."
"Don't ask me any questions,
because I just might tell you the truth."
"I don't need to be wanted, I want to be needed."
"All of our young lives we look for someone to love,
someone to cherish, someone to make us feel perfect,
while we don't even realize someone may be
looking at us as that person."
"Why are the words
'Goodbye',
'I'm sorry',
and 'I love you'
so easily pronounced
but so hard to say?"
"Snow White...Cinderella...
All about wanting a guy, being saved by the guy.
Today it's Little Mermaid...Aladdin...Pocahontas...
All about getting a guy.
So basically we're screwed up because of Disney."
"Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality."
~Jules de Gautier~
"We seek the comfort of another.
Someone to share and share the life we choose.
Someone to help us through the neverending
attempt to understand ourselves.
And in the end, someone to comfort us along the way."
~Marlin Finch Lupus~
"Growing up sucks.
Not all kisses are magic,
and most boys do not live up to your expectations,
but there are those times when everything,
I mean love, romance, relationships,
it all falls together perfectly and it's incredible.
It's those moments,
no matter how depressingly few and far between,
that make growing up worth it."
"Love me for my mind not my body
Play with my body...not my mind."
"If you don't like MTV, don't watch it.
If you don't like abortion, don't have one.
If you don't like gay people, don't be one.
But don't hate people because of
their beliefs and preferences.
Life's too short to waste on hate."
"Solitude is one thing, loneliness is another."
~May Sarton~
"Never regret what you said
because it was what you were feeling at that moment."
"I'm holding onto something that used to be there,
hoping it will come back...but knowing it won't."
"The most important thing in communication
is hearing what isn't being said."
~Anon~
"I've learned that good-byes will always hurt,
pictures never replace having been there,
memories good or bad, will bring tears;
and words can never replace feelings."
"A man travels the world in search of what he needs
and returns home to find it."
~George Moore~
"It always rains hardest on those that deserve the sun."
"When you're lying in bed at night wondering if
you'll ever find someone who will really love you,
look back to me and you'll know you did,
and that's the day you'll reget walking away."
"A person's eyes tell their story. Some eyes are so pure, so innocent,
while others show that life can be a major struggle."
"Insanity: a perfectly rational adjustment to the insane world."
~R. D. Laing~
"Please don't lie to me,
unless you're absolutely sure
I'll never find out the truth."
~Ashleigh Brilliant~
"A girl is much more than she seems,
not a toy by any means,
underneath all the make-up and hair
is a sign saying 'Handle with Care.'"
"Some people have a large circle of friends
while others have only friends that they like."
~George Santayana~
"Nothing in high school is important enough
to affect anyone's life beyond college admissions
besides your true friends."
"I don't wish to be everything to everyone,
but I would like to be something to someone."
"It's hard to answer what's wrong when nothing is right."
"The world is a comedy to those that think,
a tragedy to those who feel."
~Horace Walpole~
"We tell lies when we are afraid,
...afraid of what we don't know,
afraid of what others will think,
afraid of what will be found out about us.
But every time we tell a lie,
the thing that we fear grows stronger."
~Tad Williams~
"When you think about it,
your love life could be like a frustrating movie
where everyone is yelling at the screen
'tell him you love him'
but you just can't seem to say it."
"I tend to live in the past because most of my life is there."
~Herb Caen~
"Be who you are and say what you feel,
because those who mind don't matter
and those who matter don't mind."
~Dr. Seuss~
"Reality is merely an illusion,
albeit a very persistent one."
~Albert Einstein~
"I value the friend who finds time for me in their calendar,
I cherish the friend who does not consult her calendar."
"Where you used to be there is a hole in the world,
which I find myself constantly walking
around in the daytime and falling into at night."
"I want to be happy because he's happy,
but how can I be happy knowing that
I'm not the one making him smile?"
"Of course abortion isn't right.
But it is even less right to bring
unwanted children into lifelong
suffering and to strip women
of their choice.
Making abortion illegal is
not the way to prevent it.
There is a much larger picture
that starts with much deeper roots."
"Because women's work is never done
and is underpaid or unpaid or boring
or repetitious and we're the first
to get fired and what we look like
is more important than what we do
and if we get raped it's our fault
and if we get beaten we must have provoked it
and if we raise our voices we're nagging bitches
and if we enjoy sex we're nymphos
and if we don't we're frigid and if we love women
it's because we can't get a "real" man
and if we ask our doctor too many questions
we're neurotic and/or pushy and if we expect
childcare we're selfish and if we stand up
for our rights we're aggressive and "unfeminine"
and if we don't we're typical weak females
and if we want to get married we're out to
trap a man and if we don't we're unnatural
and because we still can't get an adequate safe
contraceptive but men can walk on the moon
and if we can't cope or don't want a pregnancy
we're made to feel guilty about abortion and...
for lots of other reasons we are part of
the women's liberation movement."
~"Women's Rights Manifesto"~ |
