"You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm." -Colette faith is knowing that if you must step off a cliff, either a step will appear or you will be taught to fly. People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness.  Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.  -H. Jackson Browne A good friend is cheaper than therapy.  -unknown my manners, abominable at times, can be sweet. as i grew older i became a drunk. why? because i like ectasy of the mind. i'm a wretch but i love love. –kerouac impossible is not a fact. it’s an opinion. “never let go of the fiery sadness called desire.” -patti smith it made me think that everything was about to arrive-the moment when you know all and everything is decided forever. -kerouac "It is never too late to be what you might have been." -George Eliot "Don't be humble. You're not that great." -Golda Meir "You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty." -Sacha Guitry  "There is no point at which you can say, `Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap.'" -Carrie Fisher "I'm tough, ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay." -Madonna would you catch me if i fall out of what i fell in? -lifehouse "Become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid." -Lady Bird Johnson "Speed is the by-product of busting your ass." - Anonymous "When one rows it is not the rowing which moves the ship: rowing is only a magical ceremony by means of which one compels a demon to move the ship." -Nietzsche "not everybody wins, and certainly not everybody wins all the time. But once you get into your boat and push off, tie into your shoes and bootstretchers, then 'lean on the oars,' you have indeed won far more than those who have never tried." -unknown rome was not created by having meetings, it was created by killing all those in opposition.  And I am in the twilight of my youth -ryan adams  "If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing.” -Ben Franklin  thanks that was fun don't forget, no regrets except maybe one made a deal not to feel god that was dumb deflated and jaded i hate it when you call which isn't at all I've been hiding, who I am for so long, and I know that I just can't keep holding on, I just can't keep holding on for long -ryan cabrera Well I can see that my world is falling apart, If you could see all the world through my eyes, Then maybe we could finally be alright -ryan cabrera driving in a car, 11:33 pm, windows down, screaming the lyrics to your favorite songs as loudly as you possibly can on one of the most important nights of your life with a few of your most favorite people in the entire world... "We don't care if they hate us as long as they fear us" "how lucky i am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard." -annie "i can't remember all the times i tried to tell myself to hold on to these moments as they passed." -counting crows i was just wondering if you'd come along to hold up my head when my head won't hold on." -dave matthews "don't have pictures, just memories to hold that grow sweeter each season as we slowly grow old.." -toad the wet sproket "i've got to get back to the bus, my friend jack daniels is in there. he's a hard man to get rid of." -dave, during a concert. (here's something funny from a dave concert) when Dave first came on stage he had a piece of paper in his hand and he said, "I have a message from Bill who is in the 7th row. this message is a request. it says DAVE- PLEASE play lover lay down because if you play that, I will get laid by my girlfriend, Jill. Then Dave says, "hey Bill, I wrote the damn song, if anything, Jill and I should be getting it on tonight!" 01/20/97 Many people will walk in and out of your life, But only true friends will leave footprints in your heart. To handle yourself, use your head; To handle others, use your heart. Anger is only one letter short of danger. Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people. He who loses money, loses much; He who loses a friend, loses much more; He who loses faith, loses all. Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, But beautiful old people are works of art. Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself. Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is mystery. Today is a gift. -eleanor roosevelt. "i always thought i'd look back on my tears and laugh. i never thought that i'd look back on my laughter and cry." -cara quinby "Tell me whom you love, and I will tell you who you are." -Houssaye "Together forever, never apart. Maybe in distance, but never at heart." "be true to yourself and you will never fall" -beastie boys (pass the mic.) "opportunity knocks but once, but temptation leans on the doorbell." -unknown "i love you for not what you are but for what i am when i am with you. i love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making me." -unknown "i think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each other's dreams, we can play together all night." -calvin and hobbes "remember everything when only memory remains." -counting crows "it takes a second to say goodbye, but it takes forever to forget." -unknown "if i had never met you, i wouldn't like you. if i didn't like you, i wouldn't love you. if i didn't love you, i wouldn't miss you. but i did, and i do, and i will." -unknown "today if a smile comes to you, a happy smile that perhaps you can't explain, it's because at that moment i'm thinking of you and smiling, too." -anonymous "enjoy here while you are here because there is no here, there." -unknown "a true friend is the greatest of all blessings." -mary engelbreit "sometimes in life, you find a special friend; someone who changes your life by just being a part of it" -unknown "pooh, promise me that you won't forget me, because if i thought you would, i would never leave." -christopher robin "so i'll hug you now and be on my way, because i know it's not the end." -unknown "you can't stop loving someone just because they're gone. you can't just forget" -unknown "i want to go, i just don't want to leave." -chris beach "enjoy yourself. these are the good old days you're going to miss in the years ahead." -anonymous "some people come into our lives and quickly go. some stay for a while and leave footprints in our hearts. and we are never, ever the same. -anonymous "don't worry 'bout what you don't know. life's a dance; you'll learn as you go" -john michael montgomery "suffer the dreams of a world gone mad, i like it like that and i know it. i know it well, it's ugly and sweet. i temper madness to believe in this dream." -rem "in the golden chain of friendship, always count me as a link." -unknown "some succeed because they are destined to, but most succeed because they are determined to." -successories "enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were big things." -robert chalmers "one of the most beautiful qualities of a friendship is to understand and be understood." -seneca "i drank WHAT?" -socrates "you only live once- do it right." -annette goodman "true friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable." -david tyson gentry "those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves." -james m. barrie "you can't discover new oceans until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore" -unknown "if that i could, i would shrink the surface of the world so that suddenly i might find you standing at my side" -ancient chinese poetry "it's alright letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back." -mick jagger "o, for a beaker full of the warm south." -keats "in every friend we lost a part of ourselves, the best part." -alexander pope "there are always two choices, two paths to take. one is easy, and its only reward is that it's easy." -unknown "because i owe my life to the people that i love." -ani difranco "can't you hear me? 'cause i'm screaming. i did not go outside yesterday. don't wake me.. please don't wake me. 'cause i was dreaming. and i might just stay inside again today." -counting crows "i'm never alone, i'm alone all the time." -g. rossdale "friendships that will last and last until the end of time.. i won't forget the times we've shared, my mind still wanders back down there, to find the piece of me i left behind" -anonymous "goodbye is not an ending for you'll find along life's way, within your heart you'll always have a part of yesterday." -unknown Calvin: Know what I pray for? Hobbes: What? Calvin: The strength to change what I can, the inability to accept what I can't, and the incapacity to tell the difference. -calvin and hobbes "life is all a memory except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going." -tennessee williams "i am a work in progress dressed in the fabric of the world unfolding offering intricate patterns of questions; rhythms that never come clean and strengths you haven't seen yet." -ani difranco "i'm drunk in my desire." -sarah mclachlan "the road goes on forever and the party never ends." -robert earl keen, jr. "death is life's way of telling you you've been fired." -anonymous "ambitions is a poor excuse for not having enough sense to be lazy" -anonymous "the happiest people don't necessarily have the best of everything, but make the best of everything they have." -anonymous "if i look confused, it's because i' thinking." -albert einstein "if life is a waste of time, and time is a waste of life, then let's all get wasted and have the time of our lives." -unknown "there's no such thing as bad words, just bad thoughts" -chris rock "know what's weird? day by day, nothing seems to change. but pretty soon, everything's different." -calvin and hobbes "don't be afraid to go out on a limb; that's where all the fruit is." -anonymous "if at first you don't succeed, try, try again. then quit. no sense in being a damn fool about it." -unknown "to the world, you may be one person. but to one person, you may be the world." -unknown "maybe this world is another planet's hell." -aldous huxley "at the time you don't think much of it, we just don't recognize the most significant moment of our lives." -field of dreams "where you are is where i want to be, and through you eyes all things i want to see. and in the night you are my dream, you're everything to me. you're the love of my life, and the life in my prayer, take my hand, lead me back; what i need is you again." -dmb "we've got a long road to travel, but you won't ever be alone, cause i'm gonna be your cowboy, i'm gonna take you home.." "it's funny how silence speaks sometimes when you're alone." -creed "imagination come alive, suspicion, tonight, i'll dream tonight." -rem "life is like a shooting star, it doesn't matter who you are." -live "and i have sense to recognize that i don't know how to let you go." -sarah mclachlan "one day i'll construct a satellite and i'll name it after you, cause you were the greatest friend of all" -bnl "it is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not." -andre gide "one day it will happen. one day it will all make sense." -bjork "speak the truth, but leave immediately after." -slovenian proverb "you mean, i'm on my own? i've never been on my own. oh no!! on own! on own!! i need help! oh god, help me!! help me god!!" -homer simpson "desire is poison. you know that when i hate you, it is because i love you to a point of passion that unhinges my soul." "shoot for the moon, even if you miss, you'll land among the stars." -les brown "that's the difference between me and the rest of the world! happiness isn't good enough for me! i demand euphoria!" -calvin and hobbes "it is impossible to love someone, if you don't love yourself." -unknown "never say i love you if you don't care never talk about feelings, if they're not really there never talk touch a life if you mean to break a heart." -unknown "nobody ever drowned in sweat." -unknown "well, it just seemed wrong to cheat on an ethics test." -calvin & hobbes "i let my music take me where my heart wants to go.." -cat stevens It seems like today I'm looking back Well maybe tomorrow I'll see further than my little head allows me to stroke 9 hello I'm sitting here thinking and writing writing and talking without you stroke 9 As I lay here in bed, your smile fills my head And I'm using this pen to talk to you, from a southern way. It's been weeks since I've seen you last Time away from you Ain't movin too fast Wishin my summer away, just to see you again I'm there by your side, Looking in your eyes Seeing you with me, what else could there be If I could get away, I would be there today You'd be wearing that smile I haven't seen for a while. "Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it is good only for wallowing." --Katherine Mansfield "this is not the end. it is not even the beginning of the end. it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning." -winston churchill "if you can imagine it, you can achieve it. if you can dream it, you can become it." -william arthur ward “The game of life is not so much in holding a good hand as playing a poor hand well.” -HT Leslie Along the way to close my eyes I lost where I was going. “No one knows what it’s like to feel these feelings like I do.” -The Who (behind blue eyes) I will not play Tug o’ War, I’d rather play Hug o’ War; Where everyone hugs, instead of tugs, And everyone giggles and rolls on the rug Where everyone kisses, And everyone grins; Everyone cuddles, And everyone wins. -Shel Silverstein “Never let go of the fiery sadness called desire.” -Patti Smith “Don’t frown because you never know who is falling in love with your smile.” “No thing in live is to be feared. It is only to be understood.” -Marie Curie remember that there are hundreds of thousands of things you can eat that are not cheese. -dave matthews "If at first you don't succeed, try try again. Then quit. No sense being a damn fool about it." --W.C. Fields "I did absolutely nothing and it was all I ever dreamed it could be." "If you love a flower that lives on a star, it is sweet to look at the sky at night. All the stars are a-bloom with flowers." --The Little Prince if all the world’s a stage, I want better lighting. The world I know is a world too slow, can’t move fast enough keep your head low… if you can’t move fast enough child, better stay on the low line. And I want to love in the passenger seat of a car; we can drive all around all night; we wouldn’t have to go too far, just to look at the stars, this night could be ours.. And we ain’t never going home, this ride is far too long, to travel alone, and the moon will shine brightly on this road. Which way do you want to go? -Country Living, Esthero People sure do complete 180s during their teens. Some good, some bad. Lots of people get lost, some people think they found something when it was only a dream. People think they know someone until they realize that nothing was real to begin with. Hope your doing well where ever you are. I miss you there are orange azaleas in the U of our building I sit in the quad all day long pretending to study but I'm really just concentrating on the earth, begging her not to drop me "don’t drop me, earth" because I don’t think the grass roots are strong enough to hold me. I smoke pot like a hippie I have grown strong I am closer to the meaning of life the sunlight makes me sweat the red leaves beyond the ups van are astonishing i miss you I am off in search of sleep or homework; whichever next catches my eye. and i swore i was listening but i started drifting around the part about me acting my age -ben folds five "It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded." --Anne Morrow Lindbergh "What, after all, is a halo? It's only one more thing to keep clean." --Christopher Fry "The 'C' students run the world." --Harry Truman Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant. -Socrates "I'm no Angel, but does that mean that I can't try?" --Dido "Live in the past, but don't remember too much." -Roger Rosenblatt In bed my real love has always been the sleep that rescued me by allowing me to dream. -Luigi Pirandello "Dream what you want to dream; go where you want to go; be what you want to be, because you have only one life and one chance to do all the things you want to do." -unknown What do you do when the only person who can make you stop crying is the person who made you cry? "Live each and everyday as if it were your last - because one day you'll be right." --Bob Moawad "so I tip my hat, to the Keeper of the Stars, I hold everything when I hold you in my arms" "Loving someone is that painful realization that someone other than yourself exists." "Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born" "things always turn out okay in the end, so if things aren't okay then it's not the end yet" "I'm not gonna be Stuck in mediocrity When everybody's trying to bring me Back down to reality Oh, why can't they see Just how much this means to me Maybe one day I'll be special." --Save Ferris "Express yourselves, be who you are, Mmm mmm mmm, you're a shining star You don't even know what you got inside. " –DMX "i'm falling even more in love with you, letting go of all I've held on to... standing here until you make me move, i'm hanging by a moment here with you" –Lifehouse "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the things you did. Sail away from the safe harbor, catch the wind in your sails. Explore. Dream." Others are merely mirrors of you. You cannot love or hate something about another person unless it reflects something you love or hate about yourself. - Carter-Scott "Hearts break, Clubs close, Spades kill, but Diamonds last forever." -ADPi i did what i had to do, if there was a reason it was you when my whole life is on the tip of my tongue.. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing." -Helen Keller "Wise Man: One who sees the storm coming before the clouds appear." -Elbert Hubbard "All that is in the heart is written on the face." -Proverb "Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage." -Lao-tzu "cuz i am hanging on every word you say and even if you don't wanna speak tonight, that's alright, alright with me. cuz i want nothing more than to sit outside heaven's door and listen to you breath, that's where i wanna be" –Lifehouse No man is worth your tears and the only one who is will never make you cry. "People need loving the most when they deserve it the least." -John Harrigan Happiness is something we all deserve, others may not approve of who or what creates this happiness but true happiness occurs regardless of what others think. "Of course I love you. It is my fault you haven't known it all the while." -The Little Prince "It takes a lot of power to change your point of view, and I worry every hour that I'm away from you. It makes me feel unnoticed, like I was never there, and I'd give my whole life savings to know you ever cared" -Athenaeum "You want a guy that will wake you up at dawn because he's just bursting to talk to you--he can't wait another minute to hear what you are going to say." –runaway bride "The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile.. it's the inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him with his friendship." -Ralph Waldo Emerson "The way to love anything is to realize it might be lost." -G.K. Chesterson A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same. –Elbert Hubbard Ama me fideliter! Fidem meam noto: De corde totaliter Et ex mente tota, Sum presentialiter Absens in remota. (Latin) Love me faithfully! See how I am faithful: With all my heart    And all my soul    I am with you     Though I am far away. looking back, i have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so. –david grayson being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you courage. Lao-tzu I have said nothing because there is nothing I can say that would describe how I feel as perfectly as you deserve it. –kyle schmidt One of the most adventurous things left us is to go to bed. For no one can lay a hand on our dreams. -E.V. Lucas A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked. -Bernard Meltzer If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?  -Unknown Just because somebody doesn't love you the way you want them to, doesn't mean they don't love you with all they have. -Unknown Love is missing someone whenever you're apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you're close in heart. -Kay Knudsen You learn to like someone when you find out what makes them laugh, but you can never truly love someone until you find out what makes them cry. -Author Unknown Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place. -Zora Neale Hurston Fields Sometimes when I reflect back on all the beer I drink I feel ashamed. Then I look into the glass and think about the workers in the brewery and all of their hopes and dreams. If I didn't drink this beer, they might be out of work and their dreams would be shattered. Then I say to myself, it is better that I drink this beer and let their dreams come true than be selfish and worry about my liver. True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable. Dave Tyson Gentry Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts. -Margaret Lee Runbeck, Answer Without Ceasing We are [friends] and I do like to pass the day with you in serious and inconsequential chatter. I wouldn't mind washing up beside you, dusting beside you, reading the back half of the paper while you read the front. We are friends and I would miss you, do miss you and think of you very often. -Jeanette Winterson If you're alone, I'll be your shadow. If you want to cry, I'll be your shoulder. If you want a hug, I'll be your pillow. If you need to be happy, I'll be your smile. But anytime you need a friend, I'll just be me. –unknown A friend accepts us as we are yet helps us to be what we should. -Unknown "A true friend is always there for you till the very end ... they will put down whatever they are doing, give up everything they have, put aside all differences, and fight for you and what your heart desires..." -Robin Williams In the depth of winter, I finally realized that deep within me there lay an invincible summer. -Albert Camus You let me down, I said it, Now I'm going down, And you're not even around. And I said no... I can't keep it all together, I know... I can't keep it all together, And there's a memory of a window, Looking through I see you. Searching for something I could never give you, And there's someone who understands you more than I do. A sadness I can't erase. All alone on your face.  "Some people care too much. I think it's called love." –Pooh It's just a moment This time will pass    -U2 enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple. they are the moments people look back on at the end of life and number as their most sacred experiences Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell. ----Edna St. Vincent Millay What is the opposite of two? A lonely me, a lonely you. -Richard Wilbur As soon as forever is through, I'll be over you. -Toto "I love sleep.  My life tends to fall apart when i'm awake, you know?"  -Ernest Hemingway  I left you waiting (I know I left you waiting) At the least could we be friends? Should have never started... Ain't that the way it always ends? On my life I'll try today There's so much I've felt I should say but even if your heart would listen, doubt I could explain...  "There are so many different ways to be connected to people. There are people you feel this unspoken connection to, even though there's not a word for it. There's the people who you've known forever who know you this way that other people can't because they've seen you change. They've let you change." "It's hard to forget someone you'll always remember." "i long for the days when there's no good-byes, wish I could see you wipe the tears from your eyes tell you everything is alright, lay you down, say to you goodnight." –pmb Twenty some odd years and nothing's changed. I'm still the same. Still learning from this never ending dream.  -Fenix Tx "cold wind rushes down on my face. smoke heats the black throat of the chimmney. the door is open, come on inside...the door is open, come on inside...the door is open, come on inside...your life collides with mine...your life collides with mine..." -dispatch "It's all because of you, I'm never sad and blue.  You brighten up my day, in your own special way.  Whenever you're around, I'm never feeling down you are my trusted friends...on you I can depend." "if you would only listen, you might just realize what you're missing, you're missing me." "Is it any wonder that I shine when I'm around you?" - Fighting Gravity "Who would leave this all behind? Should I linger, make me stay." -Thistle  "I've had enough of being alone, but I've got no place to go" -dmb When it hurts to look back and you're scared to look ahead, you can look beside you, and your best friend will be there. "something about the way your hair falls in your face. i love the shape you take while crawling towards the pillowcase. you tell me where to go and though i might leave to find it, i'll never let your head hit the bed without my hand behind it." a friend is someone who will bail you out of jail. a best friend is the one sitting beside you saying, "damn that was fun!" If you wait for me then I'll come for you Although I've traveled far I always hold a place for you in my heart If you think of me, If you miss me once in awhile Then I'll return to you I'll return and fill that space in your heart "lisa, if the bible has taught us nothing else- and it hasn't- it's that girls should stick to girls' sports, such as hot-oil wrestling, foxy boxing, and such-and-such." -homer simpson "Dream what you want to dream; go where you want to go; be what you want to be, because you have only one life and one chance to do all the things you want to do." -unknown It's not that I can't live without you It's just that I don't even want to try Love isn't about finding the perfect person, It's about seeing an imperfect person perfectly "times like this i think of you and i just wonder if you think of me. i still miss you. and i was wondering if i fell through the sky would time pass us by and would you know that i would walk a thousand miles just to see you. just to hold you." "I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends. " -Walt Whitman your arms in mine, anytime I wouldn't trade anything-you're still my everything to my surprise, before my eyes you arrive don't worry, I'll catch you don't ever worry still breaking old habits when you pulled the wool over me I can see everything, everything remembering Jinx removing don't worry, I'll catch you don't ever worry. there's no need for reminding you're still all that matters to me "It's hard, you know, you can teach someone how to love, but, as much as you would like to, you can't teach them how not to." And I need you And I miss you And now I wonder If I could fall Into the sky Do you think time Would pass me by Cause you know I'd walk a thousand miles If I could just see you.....tonight  "First words you say in tears complaining how I'm never near I know I'm lost sometimes cause I'm grounded in my mind it's like this all the time first I say that you're ok then I go my way, and you're desperate, so desperate when you're down Here I stand, take my hand and I'll try to understand you right the best way I can, cause after all I am your friend"  "...courage is the strength to say goodbye when you'd rather stay." It's surprising how much of memory is built around things unnoticed at the time -barbara kingsolver as i am holding you i am letting you go.  -alice walker "You know that silence is loud When all you hear is your heart And I wanted so badly Just to be a part of Something strong and true But I was scared and Left it all behind"   MB I wish i was in the land of cotton, old times there are not forgotten...away, away, away down south in Dixie...

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