Life is not a journey
to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body; but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly
used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming -WOW- What a ride! - Unknown
There is a self-perpetuating belief that one simply
cannot help it, and this is very dangerous. It becomes an identity in and of itself. It becomes its own religion, and you
wait for salvation, and you wait, and wait, and wait, and do not save yourself. If you saved yourself, and did not wait for
salvation, you'd be self-sufficient. How dull - Marya Hornbacher
Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times
- Unknown
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned
about life: it goes on - Robert Frost
People are lonely because they build walls instead
of bridges - Joseph F. Newton
Sometimes you just have to take the leap, and build
your wings on the way down - Kobi Yamada
People are always telling me to smile. Like smiling
is going to take away all the hurt and pain. Well, I've tried that. I've tried hiding my sorrows and covering my sadness in
my smile, and what I've learned is that when it hurts this much inside, your heart always has a way of showing it, no matter
how many masks you wear - Unknown
The mind is its own place, and in itself can make
a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n - John Milton
If you want to find out what's behind these cold
eyes, you'll just have to claw your way through this disguise - Pink Floyd
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking
at the stars - Oscar Wilde
Be more concerned with your character than with
your reputation. Your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what other think you are - Dale Carnegie
The cruelest lies are often told in silence - Robert
Louis Stevenson
A decade of cutting away dead flesh, cauterizing
old scars ripped open over and over, and still it is not enough - Adrienne Rich
Sometimes what seems like surrender isn't surrender
at all. It's about what's going on in our hearts. About seeing clearly the way life is and accepting it and being true to
it, whatever the pain, because the pain of not being true to it is far, far greater - Unknown
To be nobody but myself, in a world which is doing
its best. To fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting - ee cummings
Hell is oneself; Hell is alone, the other figures
in it merely projections. There is nothiing to escape from and nothing to escape to. One is always alone - T.S. Eliot
There's a particular brand of pit that grows in
your stomach when you know you're losing control and there's nothing you can do about it. Heavy as granite and moldering...It's
the way we're built I suppose. A natural reaction to the unstoppable spin of the earth below. Forever trying to wrestle control
of life, love, work, and home. And when we can't get control there, we'll fight for it wherever we can. As if we think we
could stop the world from spinning by just being mad - Everwood
There was a time when the lies rolled off my tongue
with ease, when it was far more important to me to self-destruct than to admit I had a problem, let alone allow anyone to
help - Marya Hornbacher
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage - Seneca
A minute's success pays the failure of years
- Robert Browning
If you are going through hell, keep going
- Sir Winston Churchill
Life moves pretty fast. If you dont stop
and look around once in awhile, you could miss it - Ferris Buehler
Make strangers your friends and your friends
alot stranger - Unknown
You can't turn back the clock, but you
can wind it up again - Bonnie Prudden
You love the things I say I'll do
The way I'll hurt myself again just to get back at you - Points of Authority
And finally the silence,
looking
out, looking back across the sky,
Trying to find a meaning,
knowing that I just left it all behind - Ben Jelen
Always
do right- this will gratify some and astonish the rest - Mark Twain
I have not failed.
I've just found 10,000
ways that won't work - Thomas Alva Edison
If you can't get rid of the
skeleton in your closet,
you'd best teach it to dance - Shaw
Nothing tastes as good as thin feels.
Maybe this world is another planet's Hell - Aldous
Huxley
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity - Einstein
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when
you take your eyes off your goal - Henry Ford
You may get well. But you never forget - Marya Hornbacher
How will you know I am hurting,
If you cannot
see my pain?
To wear it on my body,
Tells what words cannot explain - C. Blount
The significant problems we
face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them - Albert Einstein
It only takes one smile
To hide a million tears -
Unknown
Not all scars show
Not all wounds heal
Sometimes you can't always see
The pain someone feels - Unknown
Never
look down on anybody unless
you're helping them up. - Jesse Jackson
What lies behind us and what lies before us
are tiny matters
compared to what lies within us. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whether you think you
can or think
you can't - you are right. - Henry Ford
Don't judge those who try and fail,
judge those who fail
to try - Unknown
You only see what I choose to show you
Behind my smiles you just don’t know - Unknown
Do
not go where the path may lead, go instead where
there is no path and leave a trail - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Never
compromise your dreams - Bazooka Joe
You must be the change you wish
to see in the world - Mahatma Gandhi
Forgive
your enemies, but never forget their names - John F. Kennedy
May you live all the days of your life - Jonathan Swift
After awhile you learn
the subtle difference between
holding a hand and chaining a soul
and you learn that
love doesn't mean possession
and company doesn't mean security.
And you begin to learn that kisses aren't contracts
and
presents aren't promises and you begin to accept
your defeats with your head up and your eyes ahead
with the grace of
an adult not the grief of a child.
And you learn to build your roads today
because tomorrow's ground is too uncertain
for plans
and futures have ways of falling down in mid-flight.
After awhile you learn that even sunshine
burns if
you get too much so you plant your
own garden and decorate your own soul
instead of waiting for someone to bring you
flowers.
And you learn that you really can endure
that you really are strong
and you really do have worth
and
you learn...
and you learn... - Unknown
One moment on the lips ... forever on the hips
All I can do
Is
smile and walk away
Hide my tears and
Pretend everything is ok - Unknown
Only those who will risk going too
far can
possibly find out how far one can go - T. S. Eliot
Dream as if you'll live forever...live
as if you'll
die today - James Dean
The future belongs to those who believe
in the beauty of their dreams - Eleanor Roosevelt
I
know what it's like to want to die.
How it hurts to smile.
How you try to fit in but you can't.
How you hurt yourself
on the outside to try to kill the thing on the inside - Girl, Interrupted
In the end, we will remember not the words
of our enemies but the silences of our friends - Martin Luther King Jr.
Never Interrupt your enemy when he is making
a mistake - Napolean Bonaparte
Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate - Thomas Jones
I keep on looking
through the looking glass
And I want to fall on through.
Out of the real world to a happy day
Out of the wreckage
that I do - Katy Rose
Seeing death... really seeing it, makes dreaming about it fucking ridiculous - Girl, Interrupted
I
hurt myself today
to see if I still feel
I focus on the pain
the only thing that's real
the needle tears a hole
the old fimilar sting - Nine Inch Nails
I'm going to paint a picture
A picture with a
twist
I'll paint it with a razor
I'll paint it on my wrist
And as I paint this picture, a fountain will appear
And
as this fountain flows, my pain will disappear - Unknown
You laugh because I'm different. I laugh because
you're all the same - Charlie Manson
Go for the moon. If you don't get it, you'll still
be heading for a star - Willis Reed
From the thrusting up of the Rocky Mountains, to
the carving down of the Grand Canyon. Great change only comes from conflict. But where nature's greatest conflict consists
of relentless pounding of water on rock, or collisions under the earth's crust, for people to change, it takes other people
- Everwood
This above all; to thine own self be true - William
Shakespeare
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer
somebody else up - Mark Twain
Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot
keep it from themselves - James Barrie
Razor blade, razor blade. Cold and bright. Take away
my pain tonight. A tiny prick, a little cut, the light is low, the door is shut. The blade slides in, the blood runs out,
along with it: cold, fear, and doubt. Now cover the cut, put the blade away, to wait for use another day - Unknown
I became less afraid, and there's the rub. One really
ought to be afraid of self-torture. But it tempted me. It begged - Marya Hornbacher
I like to think he may have at last found some small
measure of peace, that we all seek, and few of us ever find - The Last Samurai
The more things change, the more they
stay the same. I'm not sure who the first person was who said that. Probably Shakespeare. Or maybe sting. But at the moment,
it's the sentence that best explains my tragic flaw: my inability to change. I don't think I'm alone in this. The more
I get to know other people, the more I realize it's kind of everyone's flaw. Staying exactly the same for as long as
possible, standing perfectly still...It feel safer somehow. And if you are suffering, at least the pain is familiar. Because
if you took that leap of faith, went outisde the box, did something unexpected...Who knows what other pain might be out there,
waiting for you. Chances are it could be even worse. So you maintain the status quo. Choose the road already traveled and
it doesn't seem that bad. Not as far as flaws go. You're not a drug addict. You're not killing anyone...Except maybe yourself
a little. When we finally do change, I don't think it happens like an earthquake or an explosion, where all of a sudden we're
like this different person. I think it's smaller than that. The kind of thing most people wouldn't even notice unless they
look at us really close. Which, thank God, they never do. But you notice it. Inside you that change feels like a world of
difference. And you hope this is it. This is the person you get to be forever...that you'll never have to change again - Everwood
