QUOTES

A couple of quotes I've run into today....

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 09:26:46 GMT

I was grabbing quotes from here and ctrl + c/v-ing them into a word doc at the same time as from other places - I hope I've grabbed all the ones from here, but some may be reposts.

“Somebody who always says you’re right wants to be your friend, but somebody who tells you when you’re wrong already is.” Jamie – Tales of Mu by Alexandra Erin

If people never did silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done. ~Ludwig Wittgenstein

I believe if I were to die and you were to walk near my grave, from the very depths of the earth, I would hear your footsteps. ~ Benito Galdo

I was about half in love with him by the time we sat down. That's the thing about guys. Every time they give you that cocky little smirk... you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are. Unknown

"You can't stop your heart from loving, really — it's like standing out there in the ocean yelling at the waves to stop.” Unknown

Trying to forget someone you love is like trying to remember someone you never knew. Anonymous

The most painful thing is to be sitting right next to the person you love most, but never being able to let them know. Unknown

Truth, Justice, honor… none of that’s worth shit. What matters is people, and people aren’t honest, or just, or honorable. They’re petty, and they’re angry, and they’re afraid; and all anyone really wants, deep down, is to be wanted… And what’s truth to that? M. Clark

I never knew until that moment how bad it could hurt to lose something you never really had. Wonder Years

"I love you. Not the kind they taught you about and I didn't know this either but love doesn't make things nice. It breaks your heart. It makes things a mess. We aren't here to make things perfect. The snowflakes are perfect. The stars are perfect — not us. We are here to ruin ourselves and to break our hearts and love the wrong people and die. The storybooks are bullshit." Moonstruck

Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.' Erich Fromm

I don't know why they call it heartbreak. It feels like every other part of my body is broken too. Missy Altijd

I never knew I could feel so much pain, and yet be so in love with the person causing it. Unknown

Scully: One day, you look at the person and see more than you did the day before, like a switch was flickered somewhere. And the person who was just a friend is suddenly the only person you can imagine yourself with.

“The decision to kiss for the first time is the most crucial in any love story. It changes the relationship of two people much more strongly than even the final surrender; because this kiss already has within it that surrender.” Emil Ludwig

“Every man is afraid of something. That's how you know he's in love with you; when he is afraid of losing you.” Unknown

"Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however … it lasts forever." Lance Armstrong

I also have a small request for a few very specific types of quotes. The biggest and probably most difficult to find would be a quote reflecting that 'In love but not love' stage (to reflect a character if you must know), the second type of quote would be quote foreshadowing love from friendship. It would be highly appreciated. Thanks!

The Don't Quit Poem

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 04:12:31 GMT

When things go wrong, as they sometimes will,
When the road your trudging seems all uphill,
When the funds are low and the debts are high,
And you want to smile, but you have to sigh,
When care is pressing you down a bit,
Rest if you must but don't you quit.

Life is queer with its twists and turns,
As every one of us sometimes learns,
And many a failure turns about,
when he might hav won had he stuck it out,
Don't give up though the pace seems shlow---
You may suceed with another low.

Often the goal is nearer than,
It seems to a faint and faltering man,
Often the struggler has given up,
When he might have captured the victor's cup,
And he learned too late when the night slipped down,
How close he was to the golden crown.

Sucess is failure turned inside out--
The silver tint of the clouds of doubt,
And you can never tell how close you are,
It may be near when it seems so far,
So stick to the fight when you're hardest hit--
It's when things seem worse that you must not quit.

~ Author Unknown

More Quotes that I love

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 03:45:29 GMT

These are a bunch of quotes that I find really inspiring. Feel free to shar opinions and comments.

In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit. ~Albert Schweitzer

But if the while I think on thee, dear friend,
All losses are restored and sorrows end.
~William Shakespeare

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend. ~William Blake

The best kind of friend is the one you could sit on a porch with, never saying a word, and walk away feeling like that was the best conversation you've had. ~Author Unknown

Why not seize the pleasure at once, how often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparations. ~Jane Austen

There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it. ~Ovid, Metamorphoses

Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another. ~Homer

I hope you enjoyed these. I'll post more later. I used different colors to help distinguish the spaces between quotes.

Quotes about Attitude

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 01:40:23 GMT

A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. ~Herm Albright, quoted in Reader's Digest, June 1995

Attitudes are contagious. Are yours worth catching? ~Dennis and Wendy Mannering

Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine. ~Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book

If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want. ~Oscar Wilde

Oh, my friend, it's not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left. ~Hubert Humphrey

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference. ~Winston Churchill

The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders. ~Foster's Law

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts. ~Samuel Johnson

Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures. ~H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Instruction Book

Every thought is a seed. If you plant crab apples, don't count on harvesting Golden Delicious. ~Bill Meyer

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. ~Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan, 1893

Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed. ~Attributed to both Jonathan Swift and Benjamin Franklin

My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions, but in the fewness of my wants. ~J. Brotherton

There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly. ~Publius Terentius Afer

I don't like that man. I must get to know him better. ~Abraham Lincoln

Just because you're miserable doesn't mean you can't enjoy your life. ~Annette Goodheart

Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful. ~Buddha

There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes. ~William J. Bennett, The Book of Virtues

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye. ~Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein, 1818

When you feel dog tired at night, it may be because you've growled all day long. ~Author Unknown

What is possible? What you will. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827

Good fortune shies away from gloom. Keep your spirits up. Good things will come to you and you will come to good things. ~Glorie Abelhas

I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else. ~Winston Churchill

[W]hat counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog. ~Dwight Eisenhower, address to Republican National Committee, 31 January 1958, also sometimes attributed to Mark Twain (unverified)

Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. ~Betty Smith

Henceforth I ask not good-fortune, I myself am good-fortune. ~Walt Whitman

No life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it. ~Ellen Glasgow

I have learned to use the word impossible with the greatest caution. ~Wernher von Braun

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise. ~F. Scott Fitzgerald

The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it. ~C.C. Scott

I am a little deaf, a little blind, a little impotent, and on top of this are two or three abominable infirmities, but nothing destroys my hope. ~Voltaire

The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy. ~Eudora Welty

Being a sex symbol has to do with an attitude, not looks. Most men think it's looks, most women know otherwise. ~Kathleen Turner

Too many people miss the silver lining because they're expecting gold. ~Maurice Setter

We cannot direct the wind but we can adjust the sails. ~Author Unknown

The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong. ~Thomas Carlyle

Misery is a communicable disease. ~Martha Graham

The world is full of cactus, but we don't have to sit on it. ~Will Foley

If you have the will to win, you have achieved half your success; if you don't, you have achieved half your failure. ~David Ambrose

If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks. ~Francis Rabelais

For my part I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance. ~Adlai Stevenson

A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes. ~Hugh Downs

Reach for the stars, even if you have to stand on a cactus. ~Susan Longacre

I not only bow to the inevitable; I am fortified by it. ~Thornton Wilder

I never really look for anything. What God throws my way comes. I wake up in the morning and whichever way God turns my feet, I go. ~Pearl Bailey

Men who never get carried away should be. ~Malcolm Forbes

Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities - always see them, for they're always there. ~Norman Vincent Peale

Surrounded by people who love life, you love it too; surrounded by people who don't, you don't. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966

Physical strength is measured by what we can carry; spiritual by what we can bear. ~Author Unknown

Swallow a toad in the morning and you will encounter nothing more disgusting the rest of the day. ~Nicholas Chamfort

A cloudy day is no match for a sunny disposition. ~William Arthur Ward

I have found that if you love life, life will love you back. ~Arthur Rubinstein

There are two types of people - those who come into a room and say, "Well, here I am!" and those who come in and say, "Ah, there you are." ~Frederick L. Collins

Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved. ~Marcus Antonius

You shouldn't say it is not good. You should say, you do not like it; and then, you know, you're perfectly safe. ~James Whistler

"It's snowing still," said Eeyore gloomily. "So it is." "And freezing." "Is it?" "Yes," said Eeyore. "However," he said, brightening up a little, "we haven't had an earthquake lately." ~A.A. Milne

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 00:18:58 GMT

This is how it works: You're young until you're not. You love until you don't. You try until you can't. You laugh until you cry. You cry until you laugh. And everyone must breathe until their dying breath.

You peer inside yourself. You take the things you like, and try to love the things you took. And then you take that love you made and stick it into someone else's heart, pumping someone else's blood. And walking arm in arm you hope it don't get harmed.

But even if it does you'll just do it all again

The wonderful Suzanne Vega!

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 22:30:15 GMT

-You walk down all of the streets in my life and you know every corner

-She's cut down on her lovers although she still dreams of them at night

-Do you love any, do you love none, do you love many, can you love one, do you love me?

-I am spitting out all the bitterness along with half of my last drink

-Its not the fist, not the smack, not the black eye
It's the unexpected tenderness that makes you cry

--tear the dress and rip the girl

-and what's so small to you, is so large to me

-If you were to kill me right now
I would still look you in the eye
And I would burn myself into your memory
As long as you were alive.

-I will smash my head against the world until I understand it

-And so I entertain you
Ask for your attention
A moment of your time
A minute of your life.

-When she wakes
she's frightened by the silence
in the room that was so noisy
in her sleep the night before.

-All I know of you is in my memory
All i ask of you is remember me

-Dont glitter in front of me
I'll turn from you and choose what i know

-I am drunk and I am angry
and my heart is sore
in this foreign city

-Take this word
wind it twice around your heart
Once to hold it together
and again,
so it wont come apart.

-Why does an angel have wings on his shoulders?
That is where the weight of the world can be found

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Wed, 20 Aug 2008 21:06:31 GMT

1. Astrid: There's nothing wrong with being a Christian.
Ingrid: Are you out of your mind? How did this happen? I raised you, not a pack of Bible-thumping trailer trash. I raised you to think for yourself.
Astrid: No you didn't. You raised me to think like you.

2. Astrid: You look at me, and you don't like what you see. But this is the price, Mother - the price of belonging to you.

3. Ingrid: I made you. I'm in your blood. You don't go anywhere until I let you go.
Astrid: Then let me go.

4. Ingrid: Love humiliates you. Hatred cradles you.

5. Claire Richards: Take my advice and stay away from broken people.

6. Astrid: My mother was the most beautiful woman I had ever seen. She was also the most dangerous.

7. Astrid: Beauty was my mothers law, her religion.

8. Ingrid: Don't attach yourself to anyone who shows you the least bit of attention because you're lonely. Loneliness is the human condition. No one is ever going to fill that space. The best you can do is know yourself... know what you want.

9. Astrid: Everybody asks why I started at the end and worked back to the beginning, the reason is simple, I couldn't understand the beginning until I had reached the end. There were too many pieces of the puzzle missing, too much you would never tell. I could sell these things. People want to buy them, but I'd set all this on fire first. She'd like that, that's what she would do. She'd make it just to burn it. I couldn't afford this one, but the beginning deserves something special. But how do I show that nothing, not a taste, not a smell, not even the color of the sky, has ever been as clear and sharp as it was when I belonged to her. I don't know how to express that being with someone so dangerous is the last time I felt safe...

10. I know what you are learning to endure. There is nothing to be done. Make sure nothing is wasted. Take notes. Remember it all, every insult, every tear. Tattoo it on the inside of your mind. In life, knowledge of poisons is essential. I've told you, nobody becomes an artist unless they have to.

11. I hated labels anyway. People didn't fit in slots -- prostitute, housewife, saint --like sorting the mail. We were so mutable, fluid with fear and desire, ideas and angles, changeable as water.

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 20:40:52 GMT

1. People's lives change. To keep all your old friends is like keeping all your old clothes - pretty soon your closet is so jammed and everything's so crushed you can't find anything to wear. Help these friends when they need you; bless the years and happy times when you meant a lot to each other; but try not to feel guilty if new people mean more to you now. -Helen Gurley

2. My mom used to say to me "You can't have fun all the time!" And I used to say "Why not?" Why the f*** can't I have fun all the time?" - Kate Moss

3. She strove for perfection. She loved setting herself tasks, sometimes impossible ones, to prove to her heart that underneath every seemingly ugly thing there was something beautiful.

4. In a world where most things were a clutter, having a peaceful home was vital to her sanity. It was her refuge, her nest, where she could hide from the problems outside her door. At least in her home she was in control, there, unlike in the rest of her life, she allowed in only those whom she wanted, she could decide how long they should stay, and where in her home they could be. Not like a heart, which let people in without permission, held them in a special place she never had any say in, and then yearned for them to remain there longer than planned. People forget they have options. And they forget that those things really don't matter. They should concentrate on what they have and not what they don't have. And by the way, wishing and dreaming doesn't mean concentrating on what you don't have, it's positive thinking that encourages hoping and believing, not whining and moaning.

5. Because children are open-minded. Because they want to know and they want to learn. Adults think they know it all. They grow up and forget so easily instead of opening their minds, they choose what to believe and what not to believe. You can't make a choice on things like that, you either believe or you don't. That's why their learning is slower. They are more cynical, they lose faith, and they only demand to know things that will help them get by day by day. They've no interest in the extras. But, it's the extras that make life.

6. "I know better than most people that a criminal isn't always a thug in a black leather jacket with a big brand on his forehead to warn us away. Criminals sit next to us on the bus. They pack our groceries and cash our paychecks for us and teach our children. They look no different from you or me. And that's why they get away with it." --Eric, Vanishing Acts by Jodi Picoult, p.33

7. Some belief that the center of our family could not be fractured by a chance occurrence, an accidental washing, an unexpected illness. Deep in the kernel of our family existed a bond. However things might change around us, we would always be together.

8. People are always worried about what's happening next. They often find it difficult to stand still, to occupy the now without worrying about the future. People are not generally satisfied with what they have; they are very concerned with what they are going to have.

9. "I don't talk to anyone right now. I find it a waste of time. Nobody understands anybody. What's on my mind is not important to anyone except me."

10. She was like a candle in the wind... unreliable. -Dean Learner

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 16:01:07 GMT

We're not even two people. Even before we met, we were just... these two halves... walking around with big... gaping holes in us shaped like the other person. And then we found each other and we were finally a whole. But then it's as if we couldn't stand being happy, so we ripped-- we ripped ourselves in half again.
-From the movie Sylvia

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 15:14:34 GMT

"He doesn't seem very impressed," Cimorene commented in some amusement.
"Why should he be?" Kazul said.
"Well, you're a dragon," Cimorene answered a little taken aback.
"What difference does that make to a cat?"
~ Dealing With Dragons

Quotes

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 15:08:54 GMT

I just found my book of random quotes I used to write down a few years ago...just thought Id share some of my favorites

"We all inevitably present a version of ourselves that is a collection of half-truths and exclusions. The way I see it, the truth was too complicated, whereas the well-chosen lie would put everyone's mind at ease."

"The funny thing about silence is that it always makes the things not mentioned seem as though it must be so much worse than you imagined."

"We all have a public face that varies to a greater or lesser degree from the one we only show ourselves. How wide a divergence between the public and private must there be before we are guilty of living a lie?"

"But it is later now & I live in a world where the two truths coexist, where both hell & hope lie in the palm of my hand."

"Maybe its not what you expected, or what everyone said it would be. But its yours & will always be your own. It holds you together while the world struggles to pull you apart. You question its presence, until its gone. Then you struggle to hold it closer. However, you will never quite understand why its your central point of gravity in your life. Your tears cant escape it, your screams are never louder than it, and your sleep is never deep enough to forget about it. Of course, when the tears dry, the echoes fade, and the dreams dissolve, its all that you are. Whether it shatters your world into a thousand pieces or becomes the fragments that were missing, it makes you. Nothing can replace its role."

"Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you, and sometimes when you fall, you fly."

"Nobody listens anymore. I cant talk to the walls because they're yelling at me. I just want someone to hear what I have to say. And maybe if I talk long enough, it'll make sense."

"What you see is only half of what I am. I have a hundred different faces, a million different personalities. Only a part of me is what I show you. I display a fraction of my true self. Everything is just a facade. Its not the truth of me. You dont know me. You never will."

"Every time people ask me if Im okay its just a reminder that Im not."

"Let the things you love be your escape."

"Dont borrow someone else's spectacles to view yourself with."

"Im getting less good at faking it. People are noticing and asking whats wrong. My friends give me invitations to talk, to cry. I love them for their caring, but I want to run from it. I have lost their language, their facility with words that convey feelings. I am in new territory & feel like a foreigner in theirs.""We all inevitably present a version of ourselves that is a collection of half-truths and exclusions. The way I see it, the truth was too complicated, whereas the well-chosen lie would put everyone's mind at ease."

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 08:00:31 GMT

All Alone!
Whether you like it or not,
Alone will be something
you'll be quite a lot.

And when you're alone, there's a very good chance
you'll meet things that scare you right out of your pants.
There are some, down the road between hither and yon,
that can scare you so much you won't want to go on.

But on you will go
though the weather be foul
On you will go
though your enemies prowl
On you will go
though the Hakken-Kraks howl
Onward up many
a frightening creek,
though your arms may get sore
and your sneakers may leak.

On and on you will hike
and I know you'll hike far
and face up to your problems
whatever they are.

You'll get mixed up, of course,
as you already know.
You'll get mixed up
with many strange birds as you go.
So be sure when you step.
Step with care and great tact
and remember that Life's
a Great Balancing Act.

"Oh, The Places You'll Go!" by Dr. Seuss

These are lyrics. don't hurt me.. I think they're pretty amazing.

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 06:07:38 GMT

You just need to get the theme of the song.
Jesus Christ - by Brand New.

Jesus Christ, that's a pretty face.
The kind you'd find on someone I could save.
If they don't put me away,
Well, it'll be a miracle

Do you believe you're missing out,
That everything good is happening somewhere else?
But with nobody in your bed
The night's hard to get through

And I will die all alone.
And when I arrive I won't know anyone.

Well Jesus Christ, I'm alone again.
So what did you do those three days you were dead?
Cause this problem's gonna last more than the weekend.

Well Jesus Christ, I'm not scared to die,
I'm a little bit scared of what comes after.
Do I get the gold chariot?
Do I float through the ceiling?

Do I divide and pull apart?
Cause my bright is too slight to hold back all my dark.
And this ship went down in sight of land.
And at the gates does Thomas ask to see my hands?

I know you're coming in the night like a thief
But I've had some time, oh Lord, to hone my lying technique.
I know you think that I'm someone you can trust;
But I'm scared I'll get scared and I swear I'll try to nail you back up.
So do you think that we could work out a sign
So I'll know it's you and that it's over so I won't even try.

I know you're coming for the people like me,
But we all got wood and nails
And we turn out hate in factories.
Yeah, we all got wood and nails
And we turn out hate in factories.
Yeah, we all got wood and nails
And we sleep inside of this machine.

I think I might do lyrics every once in a while, if that's ok?...

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 05:52:06 GMT

1. Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don't let yourself believe it will happen to you. -Muhammad Ali

2. Only one person in a thousand knows the trick of really living in the present. Most of us spend 59 minutes an hour living in the past, with regret for lost joys or shame for things badly done-both utterly useless and weakening-or in a future which we either long for, or dread. There is only one minute in which you're alive, this minute, here and now. The only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable minute, which is exactly what it is.

3. "Remind yourself. Nobody built like you, you design yourself" - Jay-Z

4. Shyness has a certain element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform is truly important to other people. -Andre Dubus

5. She won't forget about you, you mattered to her. You don't just forget about the people you care about. -Men in Trees

6. "certain things, they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases. I know that's impossible, but it's too bad anyway." --J. D. Salinger; The Catcher in the Rye

7. "Sometimes when you're young, you think nothing can hurt you. It's like being invincible. Your whole life is ahead of you, and you have big plans. Big plans. To find your perfect match. The one that completes you. But as you get older, you realize it's not always that easy. It's not until the end of your life that you realize how the plans you made were simply plans. At the end, when you're looking back instead of forward, you want to believe that you made the most of what life gave you. You want to believe that you're leaving something good behind. You want it all to have mattered." --One Tree Hill

8. "Regret comes in all shapes and sizes. Some are small like when we do a bad thing for a good reason. Some are bigger like when you let down a friend. Some of us escape the pain of regret by making the right choice. Some of us have little time for regret because we're looking forward to the future. Sometimes we have to fight to come to terms with the past, and sometimes we bury our regret by promising to change your own ways. But, our biggest regrets are not for the things we did -- but, for the things we didn't do. Things we didn't say that could've save someone that we care about. Especially when we can see the dark storm that's headed their way." -Lucas

9. We are who we protect, I think. What we stand up for. -The Da Vinci Code

10. "And unless you marry your high school sweetheart (and even sometimes then), there is usually a not-so-glorious back story. There are people and places and events that lead you to your final relationship, people and places and events you'd prefer to forget or at least gloss over. In the end, you can slap a pretty label on it-- like serendipity or fate. Or you can believe that it's just the random way life unfolds."

Movie Quotes

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 05:20:44 GMT

Hopefully no one minds, these are all quotes from movies!

These are all quotes from movies:

"Uh, it's a big problem... We have a "small" dragon." - George (George and the Dragon)

"If you come, we'll never be safe. Men will hunt us, the gods will curse us, but I'll love you. Until the day they burn my body, I'll love you." - Paris (Troy)

"What's this 'we?' You slapped him, you fight him." - Casanova (Casanova)

"The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return." - Christian (Moulin Rouge)

"It is no insult to say that a dead man is dead." - Odysseus (Troy)

"The only rules that really matter are these: what a man can do and what a man can't do. For instance, you can accept that your father was a pirate and a good man or you can't. But pirate is in your blood, boy, so you'll have to square with that some day. And me, for example, I can let you drown, but I can't bring this ship into Tortuga all by me onesies, savvy? So, can you sail under the command of a pirate, or can you not?" -Jack Sparrow (PotC)

"I'd cut off your head dwarf if it stood but a little higher from the ground." - Eomer (Lord of the Rings)

"Everyone dies, whether today or fifty years from now. " -Achilles (Troy)

"Indeed. I can avoid being seen if I wish, but to disappear entirely, that is a rare gift." - Aragorn (Lord of the Rings)

"I'm going to need our two fastest runners." - Tristan (Tristan & Isolde)

"A flower is good for nothing. You can't eat a flower, a flower can't keep you warm... " -William Thatcher (A Knight's Tale)

"There's a hole in the world like a great black pit and it's filled with people who are filled with shit and the vermin of the world inhabit it." ~Sweeney Todd (Sweeney Todd)

"What do you say to a tree?" ~John Smith (Pocahantas)

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:07:20 GMT

1. "You could do anything you wanted as long as you were beautiful, as long as you did things beautifully. If you weren't, you just didn't exist." -White Oleander

2. Seems the only one who doesn't see your beauty\line Is the face in the mirror looking back at you. You walk around here thinking you're not pretty

3. "And it was then I realized that I was only a part of the past, so there was nothing I could do, but go. Except I didn't...I couldn't." -The Wonder Years

4. I believe if I were to die and you were to walk near my grave, from the very depths of the earth, I would hear your footsteps. ~ Benito Galdo

5. It was a lie, of course, that it wouldn't hurt a bit. But since adults always said when it was going to hurt, he could count on that statement as an accurate prediction of the future. Sometimes lies were more dependable than the truth. --Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card

6. Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be. --Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card

7. If people never did silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done. ~Ludwig Wittgenstein

8. Sometimes instead of finding what you want, you have to find what you need. Once you find what you need, what you want will find you.

9. I wonder if I've been changed in the night? Let me think: was I the same when I got up this morning? I almost think I can remember feeling a little different. But if I'm not the same, the next question is: Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle. --Alice from Alice' s Adventure in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, Ch. 2

10. A big bear hug, and I'm ready to face the day! Better take two, it's Monday. --"Garfield Comic, January 13, 1997

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 19:29:11 GMT

1."Love is probably the best thing that could happen to you, but also the worst."

2. Expect people to do better than they are; it helps them to become better; but don't be disappointed when they are not; it helps them to keep trying. --Merry Browne

3. "What else shall we say to you before we all die? If every thing we feel could be said it would be very beautiful." - Allen Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky, 1961 Bombay.

4. "I just don't understand why things just can't go back to normal at the end of the half hour like on the Brady Bunch or something." -Lelaina Pierce

5. I'm just saying, you can't know who the person is. The person who will become your ultimate confidant, your soulmate, your\line lover. He may be the guy you've had your eye on for years, or he might be the guy next to you in torn jeans buying some parts for his motorcycle. Whoever he is, he starts off as a stranger, so he could be anyone.

6. Be kind to everyone. You may not be able to save a person, but at least you weren't one of the people who didn't try.

7. Her heart still slightly ached for the one she met,
But never quite knew.
-Chloe Higashida

8. People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them." - George Bernard Shaw

9. Sometimes there are things that silence can say that no other words could do justice.

10. "I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond."

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 15:02:58 GMT

Do I have an original thought?

-charlie kaufman

Go take a shower

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 14:10:03 GMT

A life without purpose is a languid, drifting thing; Every day we ought to review our purpose, saying to ourselves: This day let me make a sound beginning, for what we have hitherto done is naught!
-- Thomas A. Kempis

Beauty, truth, friendship, love, creation – these are the great values of life. We can't prove them, or explain them, yet they are the most stable things in our lives.
-- Jesse Herman Holmes

Everyone who has ever taken a shower has had an idea. It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off, and does something about it that makes a difference.
-- Nolan Bushnell

Far away in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see the beauty, believe in them and try to follow where they lead.
-- Louisa May Alcott

Self-destruction quotes

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 07:22:12 GMT

I have a really strange request, but I was hoping some people in the community could help me out. I was wondering if anyone had quotes on cutting/self harm - any would be great, but specifically ones about having quit and then desiring to do it again would be perfect. Even if it wasnt on cutting - just in any way being destructive to yourself. I would greatly appreciate it!

Eating Disorder Quotes

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 05:03:50 GMT

I would consider these very triggering for anyone with disordered eating or an eating disorder. But they're from two books, Second Star to the Right and Wasted, which are both brilliant books, IMHO, on eating disorders by sufferers (first one is a novel, second a memoir)

Second Star to the Right
Things don’t happen the way they do in the movies, with clear-cut reasons. If my parents had deserted me, or beaten me up or I had been deprived in some visible way, I could say, “See? This is why.” Even if it weren’t the whole truth, it would look and sound legitimate. But I can’t say any of those things. I kind of feel like I’m trying to locate the original melody in a fugue.

You can learn to love anything, I think, if you need to badly enough. I trained myself to enjoy feeling hungry. If my stomach contracts, or I wake up feeling nauseated, or I’m light headed, or I have a hunger headache, or better yet, all of the above, it means I’m getting thinner. So it feels good. I feel strong, on top of myself. In control. Thanks to the dictator.

How strange it is, other people don’t have to do what I’m doing, yet they manage to like themselves enough to keep going. Why can’t I be like them? But I’m not. I don’t do this because I want to. I have to.

Sometimes I think I don’t deserve to live but mainly it’s that I can’t live unless I do this.

How can I think about looks or boys, rain or easter vacation, how can I care about nuance or the color of leaves I used to paint when the questions I face are as black and white as “will I make it to the bus stop or will I fall down dead before I get there?”

I’m quite harmless now you see. To you. And now nobody can hurt me on the inside. I have this trick—anything you can do to me, I do to myself already. And I hit harder than you ever could.

I want to fly far away, to never never land where I’m not ashamed, where it’s OK to eat all sorts of things, not a humiliating dirty thing to do. I’d be beautiful and free and there’d be no scales, no mirrors. Never-be-hungry-land, never-be-judged land, never-be-Mom land, always-be-me land. Second star to the right and straight on till morning—is that how you get there? Oh, how lovely to fly! Think lovely thoughts!

Wasted
“It is crucial to notice the language we use when we talk about bodies. We speak as if there was one collective perfect body, a singular entity that we’re all after. The trouble is, I think we are after that one body. We grew up with the impression that underneath all this normal flesh, buried deep in that excessive recesses of our healthy bodies, there was a Perfect Body just waiting to break out.

Too often the shrinks assume an eating disorder is a way of avoiding womanhood, sexuality, responsibility, by arresting your physical growth at a prepubescent state. But more recently, some insightful people have noticed that some of us may be after something quite different all together, like breathing room, or, crazy as it sounds, less attention or a different kind of attention. Something like power. An eating disorder appears to be a perfect response to a lack of autonomy. By controlling the amount that goes into and out of you, you imagine that you are controlling the extent to which other people can access your brain, your heart. You also throw the family into turmoil, neatly distracting them from their endless bickering, focusing their worry on your “craziness” while you yourself saunter off stage left. The shrinks have been paying way too much attention to the end result of eating disorders—that is, they look at you when you’ve become utterly powerless, delusional, the center of attention, regressed to a passive, infantile state—and they treat you as a passive infantile creature, thus defeating their own purpose. This end result is not your intention at the outset. Your intention was to become super human, skin thick as steel, unflinching in the face of adversity, out of the grasping reach of others. “Anorexia develops when a bid for independence on the part of the child has failed.” It is not a scramble to get back into the nest. It’s a flying leap OUT. And no, it doesn’t work. But it seemed like a good idea at the time.

It is more than Thinness, per se, that you crave. It is the implication of Thin. The tacit threat of Thin. The Houdini-esque-ness of Thin, walking on hot coals without a flinch, sleeping on a bed of nails. You wish to carry Thinness on your arm with her cool smile. You wish for that invisible, vibrant wire that hums between lovers, implying a private touch. You wish for such a wire, humming between you and Thinness, at a party, on the street, humming softly between you and death.

You cannot trick your body. Your body, strange as it seems to we who are saturated with a doctrine of dualism, is actually attached to your brain. There is a very simple, inevitable thing that happens to a person who is dieting: When you are not eating enough, your thinking process changes. You begin to be obsessed with food.

Part of this had to do with the self-perpetuating nature of eating disorders: the worries about your weight do not decrease no matter how much weight you lose. Rather they grow. And the more you worry about your weight, the more you are willing to act on that worry. You really do have to have an excessive level of body loathing to rationally convince yourself that starvation is a reasonable means to achieve thinness. Normally, there is a self-protective mechanism in the psyche that will dissuade the brain from truly dangerous activity, regardless of how desirable the effects of that activity may be. For example, a woman may wish to lose weight but have an essential respect for her physical self and therefore refrain from unhealthy eating. I had no such self-protective mechanism, no such essential self-respect. When you have no sense of physical integrity—a sense that your own health is important, that your body, regardless of shape, is something that requires care and feeding and a basic respect for the biological organism that it is—a very simple all too common truly frightening thing happens: you cross over from the vague wish to be thinner into a no holds barred attack on your flesh. You stop seeing your body as your own, as something valuable, something that toes you around and does your thinking and your feeling for you and requires an input of energy for this favor. You begin seeing it as an undesirable appendage, a wart you need to remove. “I have a body”, you are likely to say if you talk about embodiment at all.

You begin to forget what it means to live. You forget things. You forget that you used to feel all right. You forget what it means to feel all right because you feel like shit all of the time and you can’t remember what it was like before. People take the feeling of full for granted. They take for granted the feeling of steadiness, of hands that do not shake, heads that do not ache, throats not raw with bile, and small rips from fingernails forced in haste to the gag spot. Stomachs that do not begin to dissolve with a battery acid mixture of caffeine and pills. They do not wake up in the night, calves and thighs knotting with muscles that are beginning to eat away at themselves. They may or may not be awakened in the night by their own inexplicable sobs. You begin to rely on the feeling of hunger, your body’s raucous rebellion at the small tortures of your own hands. When you eventually begin to get well, health will feel wrong, it will make you dizzy, it will confuse you, you will get sick again because sick is what you know.

We think of bulimia and anorexia as either a bizarre psychosis or as a quirky little habit, a phase or as a thing that women just do. We forget that is a violent act, that it bespeaks a profound level of anger toward and fear of self.

Through the looking glass I went and things turned upside down, inside out. Words turned themselves around and I heard things in reverse. Inside the looking glass, you become the center of the universe. People turn and see you, smile and wave. Your mouth moves in soundless shapes. You lose a dimension, turn into a paper doll figure with painted eyes.

In truth, you like the pain. You like it because you believe you deserve it, and the fact that you’re putting yourself through pain means you are doing what you, by all rights, ought to do. You’re doing something right. …Your ability to withstand pain is your claim to fame. It is ascetic, holy. It is self-control. It is masochism an masochism is pleasurable to many, but we don’t like to think about that. We don’t like to think that a person could have a twisted autoerotic life going on, be both a top and a bottom, and experience both at once: the pleasure of beating the hell out of a body shackled at the wrists sand the pleasure of being the body and knowing we deserve each blow.

And I remember being utterly, utterly pleased with myself.
Why?
Because I was disappearing. A disappearing act, the act of becoming invisible, is, in fact, a visible act, and rarely goes unnoticed. There is a strange sort of logic to this: we expect in this world that human beings will bear a human weight and force—there is a fascination with all human rebellions against material limits, with that small step into the super natural or what we imagine to be supernatural. I am not saying that the act of erasing the body is magic, but it feels magical.

Crazy isn’t always what they say it is. It’s not always the old woman wearing sneakers and a skirt and a scarf, wandering around with a shopping cart, hollering at no one, nothing, tumbling through years in her head. No, sometimes it is a girl wearing boots and jeans and a sweater, arms crossed in front of her, shivering, wandering through the streets at night, all night, murmuring to no one, nothing, tumbling through the strange unreal dimensions in her head.

Let go..

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 03:43:19 GMT

Let go. Why do you cling to pain? There is nothing
you can do about the wrongs of yesterday. It is
not yours to judge. Why hold on to the very thing
which keeps you from hope and love?

Leo Buscaglia

In the end these things matter most:
How well did you love?
How fully did you love?
How deeply did you learn to let go?

Buddha

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 20:44:20 GMT

x-posted to weheartquotes

1. Girls with eating disorders have a heightened, albeit confused, grasp of the dangerous imbalance of the culture’s values, which they cannot articulate in the face of the culture’s abject denial of their adolescent intuitive truth, so they tell the story with their bodies. --Catherine Setiner-Adair, quoted in Can't Buy My Love by Jean Kilbourne

2. "Some days I don't talk just to see if people notice. Other days, it's because I can't stop the silence. The silence comforts me. If I don't speak, I can make believe I don't exist." ----Hunger Point, Jillian Medoff.

3. "We've all got eating disorders. Big deal. I'm talking about your pain. The hole. The pit. The empty place. The one where all the food goes. But there's never enough food to fill it and the pain never goes away." ~"Kate's Secret"

4. I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn't make up my mind which of the figs I would choose. I wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant losing all the rest, and, as I sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and, one by one, they plopped to the ground at my feet. -Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

5. "As it turned out, not eating all day was actually not that hard, once you got used to the idea of being a being that did not eat." -Azadeh Moaveni, Lipstick Jihad

6."When you stop striving for perfection you might as well be dead." -Nip/Tuck

7. for me, i've always wanted to be stick-thin so people could see how much pain i'm in. --- Janet Fitch, White Oleander

8. I was torn and stitched, a strip mine, and they would just have to look. I hope I made them sick. I hoped they saw me in their dreams.
- Janet Fitch, White Oleander

9. Beauty was deceptive. I would rather wear my pain, my ugliness.
- Janet Fitch, White Oleander

10. I hurt, therefore I am.
- Janet Fitch, White Oleander

11. "There's something to be said for hunger: at least it lets you know you're still alive." -Oryx and Crake, Margaret Atwood

Message in a bottle by Nicholas Sparks

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 18:04:27 GMT

So I've been reading and I found some really nice quotes;

"She didn't know exactly, but he did exist, and one of the things she had learned early in her life was that if you discovered something that made you tighten inside, you had better try to learn more about it. If you simply ignored the feeling, you would never know what might happen and in many ways that was worse than finding out you were wrong in the first place. Because if you were wrong, you could go forward in your life without ever looking back over your shoulder and wondering what might have been."

"I am lost without you. I am soulless, a drifter without a home, a solitary bird in a flight to nowhere. I am all these things and I am nothing at all. This, my darling, is my life without you. I long for you to show me how to live again."

"I am here to love you, to hold you in my arms, to protect you. I am here to learn from you and to receive your love in return. I am here because there is no other place to be."

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 17:41:47 GMT

I just joined this community and, let me say, I ADORE quotes. I have a bunch to share, so they're behind the lj cut.

"Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved. The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory."

-Susan B. Anthony

Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne

On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers. ~Adlai E. Stevenson

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities. ~Theodore Geisel

The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact. ~William Shakespeare, Mid-Summer Night's Dream, 1595

Get over the idea that only children should spend their time in study. Be a student so long as you still have something to learn, and this will mean all your life. ~Henry L. Doherty

Learn as much as you can while you are young, since life becomes too busy later. ~Dana Stewart Scott

Anyone who says sunshine brings happiness has never danced in the rain. ~Author Unknown

You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip. ~Jonathan Carroll, "Outside the Dog Museum"

Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense. ~Mark Overby

A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it. ~Jean de La Fontaine

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you. ~Ray Bradbury

Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very;" your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be. ~Mark Twain

The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible. ~Vladimir Nabakov