6/29/2012

Quotes



"I could conquer the world with one hand as long as you're holding the other" 
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"The best teachers are those who show you were to look, but don't tell you what to see." Alexandra Trenfor
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"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings." T. Roosevelt
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I read once that the Ancient Egyptians had 50 words for sand and the eskimos had a hundred words for snow. I wish I had a thousand words for love, but all that comes to mind is the way you move against me while you sleep and there are no words for that.
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“I want to become acutely aware of all i’ve taken for granted.” ~Sylvia Plath
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"When you feel scared, hold someones hand and look in their eyes.  When you feel brave, do the same thing." Amy Pohler
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Somebody loves you if they call you out on your bs. They’re not passive, they don’t just let you get away with murder. They know you well enough and care about you enough to ask you to chill out, to bust your balls, to tell you to stop. They aren’t passive observers in your life, they are in the trenches. They have an opinion about your decisions and the things you say and do. They want to be a part of it; they want to be a part of you.
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"It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all - in which case, you fail by default." *J.K.R.
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"In water, one sees ones own face; But in wine one beholds the heart of another" French Proverb
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I did not ask for the life I was given, but it was given none the less. And with it I have done my best.
~ Mr. Echo
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"There's something in the water, that makes me love you like I do."
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"I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I just lived the length of it; I want to have lived the width of it as well" Diane Ackerman
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“The greatest mistake you can make in life is to continually be afraid you will make one.” – Elbert Hubbard
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“Curiosity is a raw and genuine sign from deep inside our tangled psyches, and we’d do well to follow the direction it points us in.”
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“…I’d rather help than watch. I’d rather have a heart than a mind. I’d rather expose too much than too little. I’d rather say hello to strangers than be afraid of them. I would rather know all this about myself than have more money than I need. I’d rather have something to love than a way to impress you”.
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Our time together is just never quite enough. Po Bronson
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"I'd like to be the sort of friend that you have been to me. I'd like to be the help that you've been always glad to be; I'd like to mean as much to you each minute of the day, as you have meant, old friend of mine, to me along the way." - Edgar A. Guest
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Doing what you like is freedom, liking what you do is happiness.
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You know that place between sleep and awake where you just remember dreaming? Thats where I will always love you -Hook
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Sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together. -Marilyn Monroe
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“I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do.” – Edward Everett Hale
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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. – Aristotle
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Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly. -Rose Franken
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“In all of living, have much fun and laughter. Life is to be enjoyed, not just endured.” -Gordon B. Hinckley
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“Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.” Mother Theresa
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There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered. Nelson Mandela
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Live in such a way that there will be no regrets when someone else follows in your footsteps.
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Many are afraid of the word “creativity” or awed by it.  We frequently have the false notion that others are creative, while we are just spectators, or at best, helpers or facilitators.  We should do better to avoid limiting ourselves that way.
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Every happy time that passes is never really gone, if it leaves a lovely memory for looking back upon.
~Robin St. John
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Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.  ~Elie Wiesel
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Love is not a feeling. Love is an action, an activity... Genuine love implies commitment and the exercise of wisdom... love as the will to extend oneself for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth... true love is an act of will that often transcends ephemeral feelings of love or cathexis, it is correct to say, 'Love is as love does'.  ~Scott Peck, The Road Less Travelled (Arrow New-Age)
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Even if she's crazy. Even if you hate her. Even if she's ruining your life. There's something about my mother. Some romance. Some power. And when she's dead, the world will be flat. Everything will be so much more simpler... so much more unreasonable. ~From the movie Anywhere but Here
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Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more. ~Erica Jong
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There are no good-byes, where ever we are, you'll always be in my heart
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Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love. ~George Eliot
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"When friends stop being frank and useful to each other, the whole world loses some of its radiance."
-Anatole Broyard
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Do the things you think you cannot do.
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Love, like the ocean, continues beyond the horizon...and life, like the sun, shines where we cannot see.
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Peter: It's just, I thought she'd always be here.
J.M.: So did I. But in fact, she is, because she's on every page of your imagination.
You'll always have her there. Always.
Peter: But why did she have to die?
J.M.: I don't know, Peter. When I think of your mother, I will always remember how happy she looked, sitting in the parlor watching a play about her family, about her boys that never grew up. She went to Neverland. And you can visit her any time you like if you just go there yourself.
Peter: How?
J.M.: By believing, Peter. Just believe.
~From the movie Finding Neverland
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A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. ~Herm Albright
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The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want. ~Ben Stein
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Well behaved women rarely make history.
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Leap and the net will appear.
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What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?
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