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Friday, 11 September 2009

  • "Along the way you bump into people who make a dent on your life. Some people get struck by lightning. Some are born to sit by a river. Some have an ear for music. Some are artists. Some swim the English Channel. Some know buttons. Some know Shakespeare. Some are mothers. And some people can dance." - benjamin button

    "It's a funny thing about comin' home. Looks the same, smells the same, feels the same. You'll realize what's changed is you. " - Benjamin Button

    "You'll see little man, plenty of times you be alone. You different like us, it's gonna be that way. But I tell you a little secret I find out. We know we alone. Fat people, skinny people, tall people, white people... they just as alone as us... but they scared shitless." - Ngunda Oti

    "Our lives are defined by opportunities, even the ones we miss." - Benjamin Button

    "I've never loved anything the way he loves music." - Steve Lopez in 'The Soloist'.

    "Here's the hardest thing. I have to accept God as he is. Even if he never blesses me or gives me adventure, purpose, or meaning." - Susan E. Isaacs, 'Angry Conversations With God'.

    "There are plenty of things to fight about and for over the course of our lives - let's remember that people are the most important thing, the brightest surprises on the planet. Let's remember that every single person has a story entirely unique and incredibly important, but not everyone can see it. And what a privilege that we get to do our best to remind and invite people, to believe better things, to believe that it's possible to change, to believe that life is worth living... We're not saying that it's easy. But we are saying that it's worth it." - Jamie Tworkowski

    movie recommendation: The Soloist
    book recommendation: 'Angry Conversations With God' by Susan E. Isaacs.
    music recommendation: Noah Gundersen [http://myspace.com/noahgundersen]

     

Friday, 24 July 2009

  • "'you love me?' anorexia asked skeptically, 'what is there in me to love? i have wasted my life on selfishness, working towards a goal that meant nothing. what is there in me that you could love?'
    'there is simply you,' the Lamb told her, 'and it is you that i love, just as you were, as you are, and as you will be.'"
    -showbread

    "i find that i have met numerous amounts of people but no in depth friendships are made. it is easy to distance myself from everyone after getting exhausted with shallowness. there needs to be a constant in a person’s life. there has to be something or someone that sticks with you until death. without a constant, life drags you into loneliness until you can’t breath." - abby gundersen [http://myspace.com/noahgundersen]

    "you are not here merely to make a living. You are here to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, and with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world. You impoverish yourself if you forget this errand." - woodrow wilson

    "to be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting." - e.e. cummings

    "have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake." - victor hugo

    "Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending." - maria robinson

Friday, 29 May 2009

  • "Hope is the expectation that something outside of ourselves, something or someone external, is going to come to our rescue and we will live happily ever after." - Doctor Robert Anthony

    "If you're here for four more years or four more weeks, you're here right now. I think when you're somewhere, you ought to be there. It's not about how long you stay in a place, it's about what you do while you're there, and when you go, is that place any better for your having been there?" - Karen Hall

    "It's always been about the experience of life and of not being passive. If something so excites my curiosty, I want to go there, be a part of whatever it is that's either pushing me or pulling me toward it. That desire for experience has made me very rich in life experience."  - Tish Grier

    "What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do." - John Ruskin

    "it should be called 'falter'. because everyone falters, but failure is when you screw up, and do not learn from your mistakes, then you keep making the same wrong decision over and over." - Stephen Christian, The Orphaned Anythings

    ". . . the way love is conjured is not by concentrating on living life to find love but by simply living and loving life itself. it seems to strike when one stops trying to find [mr.] right and starts becoming [mrs].right." - Stephen Christian

    "It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery and death." - Anne Frank

    "When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall -- think of it, ALWAYS." - Ghandi

Sunday, 03 May 2009

  • "Many of the great achievements of the world were accomplished by tired and discouraged men who kept on working."

    "And you can tell me,
    That I can’t make a difference ‘cause I’m just one,
    But one is all it takes to start it
    And you can tell me,
    That I can’t change the world,
    Because I’m too young,
    But I won’t stand here and be your target
    And you can push me,
    And try to knock me down, but I won’t listen,
    ‘Cause I’ve got nothing left to lose and,
    You can hate me, for everything I’m not,
    But it won’t change this,
    ‘Cause now that I’m here, I’m not moving"
    -FM Static, The Voyage of Beliefs

    "What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?" - Vincent Van Gogh

    "Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today." - Thich Nhat Hanh

    "The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope." - Barbara Kingsolver

    "Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up." - Anne Lamott

    "'I cannot bear it!' said the pewter soldier. 'I have shed pewter tears! It is too melancholy! Rather let me go to the wars and lose arms and legs! It would at least be a change. I cannot bear it longer. Now, I know what it is to have a visit from one's old thoughts, with what they may bring with them. I have had a visit from mine, and you may be sure it is no pleasent thing in the end; I was at last about to jump down from the drawers.'" -Hans Christian Anderson 

    "I know You are the answer - but I forgot the question.
    How do I know You love me when no one else seems to care?"
    -FM Static, Dear God

    "Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending." - Maria Robinson

    "The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark." - Michaelangelo

    "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." - Mark Twain

    "You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. You are the guy who'll decide where to go." - Dr. Suess

    "Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions. You change direction but the sandstorm chases you. You turn again, but the storm adjusts. Over and over you play this out, like some ominous dance with death just before dawn. Why? Because this storm isn't something that blew in from far away, something that has nothing to do with you. This storm is you. Something inside of you. So all you can do is give in to it, step right inside the storm, closing your eyes and plugging up your ears so the sand doesn't get in, and walk through it, step by step. There's no sun there, no moon, no direction, no sense of time. Just fine white sand swirling up into the sky like pulverized bones. That's the kind of sandstorm you need to imagine." -Haruki Murakami

    "She waited for the train to pass. Then she said, 'I sometimes think that people’s hearts are like deep wells. Nobody knows what’s at the bottom. All you can do is imagine by what comes floating to the surface every once in a while.'" - Haruki Murakami

    "I don't want to see anyone. I lie in the bedroom with the curtains drawn and nothingness washing over me like a sluggish wave. Whatever is happening to me is my own fault. I have done something wrong, something so huge I can't even see it, something that's drowning me. I am inadequate and stupid, without worth. I might as well be dead." - Margaret Atwood

    Dr. Thurman: Do you feel alone right now?
    Donnie: Oh, I don't know. I mean, I'd like to believe I'm not, but I just, I've just never seen any proof. So, I... I just don't debate it anymore, y'know? It's like, I could spend my whole life debating it over and over again, weighing the pros and cons, and in the end, I still wouldn't have any proof. So, I just, I just don't debate it anymore. It's absurd.
    Dr. Thurman: The search for God is absurd?
    Donnie: It is if everyone dies alone
    -Donnie Darko

    "Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away" - Phillip K. Dick

    "Right now I want a word that describes the feeling you get--a cold, sick feeling deep down inside--when you know something is happening that will change you, and you don't want it to, but you can't stop it. And you know, for the first time, for the very first time, that there will now be a before and an after, a was and a will be. And that you will never again be quite the same person you were." - Jennifer Donnelly

    "How to deal with death is at least as important as how to deal with life. " - Admiral Kirk, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

    "Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive." - Howard Thurman

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  • unicorn9
    Oh ok. I see. Then again, some books tend to be a little risque sometimes.
  • unicorn9
    Ahh. yes. Death by mosh pit. haha.
  • unicorn9
    Oh my goodness it was amazing! It was so nice to actually see them play. haha. I'll have to show you the videos once I get them uploaded. :)
    • Posted 12/23/2007 10:56 PM
    • by unicorn9
  • unicorn9
    So I wish that I had more time to read all of these quotes. They're so inspirational. :)