The turning point in the process of growing up is
when you discover the strength within you that survives all the hurt.
~ Jules

We must become the change we want to see.
Gandhi

Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?'
'That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,' said the Cat"
Lewis Carrol

If you truely love something, let it go,
it'll come back if and when the time is right.
~ Katie Schrimsher

You don't have to be tall to see the moon.
~ African Proverb

Fail? I haven't failed! I now know 3,800 ways
not to make an electric storage battery... hang in there.
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize
how close they were to success when they gave up.
~ Thomas Edison

Our background and circumstances may influence who we are,
but we are responsible for who we become.
~ Unknown

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow;
it empties today of its strength.
~ Unknown

Just remember- when you think all is lost,
the future remains.
~ Bob Goddard

In skating over thin ice, our safety is our speed.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

When the sun sets, the moon rises;
when the moon sets, the sun rises.
~ Chinese Proverb

The real leader faces the music,
even when he doesn't like the tune.
~ Unidentified

Worrying doesn't empty tomorrow of it's troubles.
It empties today of it's strength.
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self esteem

Once you are real you can't be ugly
except to people who don't understand.

In the depth of winter,
I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.
~ Albert Camus

What consumes your mind, controls your life.
~ Creed

The more of the past you carry around,
the less of the present there is room for.
~ Dalton Roberts

What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?
~ Dr. Robert Schuller

Sometimes being a little Different means being a lot Special.

The Very Fact That You Fear Something
Is Solid Evidence That It Is NOT Happening.
~The Gift of Fear

I will get there... I will get there somehow.
Cross that river, nothin's stoppin' me now.
I will get through the night...
And make it through to the other side!
~The Prince of Egypt

The most effective way to cope with change is to help create it.

I always knew that I'd look back on my tears with laughter,
but I never thought I'd look back on my laughter with tears.
~ Unknown

I know God will not give me anything I can't handle.
I just wish He didn't trust me so much.
~ Mother Teresa
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motivational

The hard part is choosing to change what needs changing.
Martina McBride

The voyage of discovery lies not in finding new landscapes
but in having new eyes.
~ Marcel Proust

One person can make a difference and every person should try.
~ John F Kennedy

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life
- it goes on.
~ Robert Frost

You are never given a wish without being given the power
to make it come true.

I cannot give you the formula for success,
but I can give you the formula for failure--which is:
Try to please everybody.

There is no failure except in no longer trying.

Nothing great was ever acheived without enthuasim.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Most of the important things in the world
have been accomplished by people
who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
~ Dale Carnegie

The task ahead of us is never as great as the power behind us.
~ Anonymous
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life rules

I know I made a lot of stupid mistakes in my life,
but the worst one was thinking the person who hurt me the most
wouldn't hurt me again..
(Drew Barrymore) The greatest mistake you can make in life
is to be continually fearing you will make one.
~ Unknown

To deny our own impulses is to deny the very thing that makes us human.
- The Matrix

In all things it is better to hope than to despair.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I don't know the key to success,
but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
~ Bill Cosby

In this life, we can do no great things:
only small things with great love.

When starting a new project,
try to make as many mistakes as rapidly as possible
in order to learn as much as you can in the shortest period of time.
~ Bob Moawad

To succeed, you must first improve, to improve,
you must first practice, to practice, you must first learn, to learn,
you must first fail.
~ Wesley Woo

Don't be afraid to attempt something new.
Remember, it was amateurs who built the ark.
It was professionals who built the Titanic.
~ Unknown

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
~ Albert Camus

Dont cry because its over, smile because it happened.
~ Unknown

The person who says it cannot be done
should not interrupt the person doing it.
~ Chinese Proverb

If you never did , you should.
These things are fun, and fun is good.
~ Dr. Seuss

The rule for today
Touch my tail, I shred your hand.
New rule tomorrow. ~Cat Haiku

Shoot for the Moon.
Even if you miss it, you will land among the Stars!

No one can make you inferior without your consent.

You can either mourn the fact that roses have thorns
or rejoice that the thorns have roses.

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter.
Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.

Its not what you are, its what you don't become, that hurts.
~ Oscar Levant

Learn from yesterday, live for today, and hope for tomorrow.
~ Unknown

The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do,
something to love, and something to hope for.
~ Allan Chalmers

Those of us who refuse to grow get swallowed up by life.
~ Chicken Soup for the Soul

Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in their shoes.
That way you're a mile away, and you have their shoes too.

If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I would not pass it round.
Trouble creates a capacity to handle it.
I don't embrace trouble; that's as bad as treating it as an enemy.
But I do say meet it as a friend, for you'll see a lot of it and had better
be on speaking terms with it.
--Oliver Wendell Holmes
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making sense

I'd rather be a could-be if I cannot be an are;
because a could-be is a maybe who is reaching for a star.
I'd rather be a has-been than a might-have-been, by far;
for a might have-been has never been, but a has was once an are.
No woman, for any considerable period,
can wear one face to herself, and another to the multitude,
without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Reality is that which,
when you stop believing in it,
doesn't go away.
~Philip K. Dick

Only one thing is more frightening than speaking your truth,
and that is not speaking.
Naomi Wolf

They may forget what you said,
but they will never forget how you made them feel.
Carl Buckner

Part of getting over it is knowing that you will never get over it.
Anne Finger

A man is not finished when he's defeated;
he's finished when he quits.
- Richard Milhous Nixon

Just because someone doesn't love you the way you want them to
doesn't mean they don't love you the best way they know how.
~ Unknown

The mind is its own place,
and in itself can make a heaven of hell,
a hell of heaven.
~ John Milton

Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
~ Toni Morrison

One who fears failure limits his activities.
Failure is only the opportunity more intelligently to begin again.

It is our imperfections that make us perfect.

If you don't take care of your body, where will you live?
~ Unidentified

A person who has no imagination has no wings.
~ Muhammad Ali

The longest journey you will ever take
is the 18 inches from your head to your heart.
~ Andrew Bennett

You need not see your feet in order to walk;
you need only have faith that your feet are there.
~ Unknown

Far better it is to dare mighty things to win
glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure
than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy
nor suffer because they live in the gray twilight that knows
not victory or defeat
~ theodore roosevelt

It is harder to live with regret thatn it is to live with self-restraints.

If having a soul means being able to feel love and
loyalty and gratitude then animals are better off than a lot of humans.
~ JamesHerriot

Ask yourself if you are happy, and you cease to be.

Life is pain.
Anyone who tells you something different is selling something.
Princess Bride

Life isn't about finding yourself, it's about creating yourself.
George Bernard Shaw

Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of.
But do it in private and wash your hands afterward.
Woodrow Smith

Grace personified.
I leap into the window.
I meant to do that.
Cat Haiku

Nobody realizes that some people expend
tremendous energy merely to be normal.
Albert Camus
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beautiful

In my life
There are so many questions and answers
That somehow seem wrong
In my life
There are times when I catch in the silence
The sigh of a far away song
And it sings
Of a world that I long to see
Out of reach
Just a whisper away
Waiting for me.
Cosette
Les Miserables

Smile though your heart is breaking,
Smile even though it´s aching,
When there are clouds in the sky you´ll get by.
Smile through your fears and sorrows,
Smile and maybe tomorrow,
You´ll find that live is still worthwile,
If you just smile.

I send you radical self-acceptance,
power-full healing,
and the miracle
of your heart speaking-
and you listening.
SARK

I wanted a perfect ending ...
Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme,
and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end.
Life is about not knowing, having to change,
taking the moment and making the best of it,
without knowing what's going to happen next.
Delicious ambiguity."
~ Gilda Radner

Some people come into our lives and quickly go.
Some people move our souls to dance.
They awaken us to new understandings
with passing whispers of their wisdom.
Some people make the sky more beautiful to gaze upon.
Others stay in our life awhile, leave footprints on our hearts,
and we are never, ever the same.
~ Anonymous

Life is untried...It is merely survived...
If you're standing outside the fire.
~ Garth Brooks

This life is yours. Take the power to choose what you want to do.
Take the power to love what you want in life and love it honestly.
Take the power to walk in the forest and be a part of nature.
Take the power to control your own life.
No one else can do it for you.
Nothing is too good for you You deserve the best.
Take the power to make your life healthy exciting worthwile.
Free College Money undefined More...
~ undefined
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typical quotes

I’d love to be a glowworm
For a glowworm’s never glum
It’s hard to be unhappy
When a light shines out your bum.

A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.

Be like a postage stamp. Stick around till you get there....

YOU GET WHAT YOU GIVE!

One step at a time leads to a bigger and better step te next time.

The happiness of most people we know is
not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors,
but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.
~ Ernest Dimnet,French priest, lecturer & author-[1866-1954]

If you become too obsessed with your fears, you will become them..

The man who follows His true image, is more of a man above him.

The first man to raise a fist is the man who's run out of ideas.
~ (fictional) H. G. Wells in the movie Time After Time.
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book and movies

There once was a turtle who lived in her shell,
The shell was her home and her prison as well.
One day she got frightened, she wanted to hide,
So she tucked her head into the safety inside.
Then came a moment of terrible doubt,
She could not find any head-hole to poke out.
But a miracle saved her before her heart sank,
the magical love of a turtle named Hank.
~ King Of Queens

Remember what Bilbo used to say:
It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door.
You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet,
there's no knowing where you might be swept off to...
~ Lord Of The Rings

What you know you can't explain, but you feel it.
You've felt it your entire life, that there's something wrong with the world.
You don't know what it is, but it's there,
like a splinter in your mind, driving you mad.
~ The Matrix

Have you ever had a dream, Neo, that you were so sure was real?
What if you were unable to wake from that dream?
How would you know the difference between the dream world and the real world?
~ The Matrix

I know you're out there. I can feel you now.
I know that you're afraid... afraid of us. You're afraid of change.
I don't know the future.
I didn't come here to tell you how this is going to end.
I came here to tell how it's going to begin.
I'm going to hang up this phone,
and then show these people what you don't want them to see.
I'm going to show them a world without you.
A world without rules or controls, borders or boundaries.
A world where anything is possible.
Where we go from there is a choice I leave to you.
~ The Matrix

What is real? How do you define real?
If you're talking about what you can feel,
what you can smell, what you can taste and see...then real is simply ...
electrical signals interpreted by your brain.
~ The Matrix

It is our choices Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
~ Dumbledore

I warned you! I will not tolerate mention of your abnormality under this roof!
~ Uncle Vernon

To the well organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.
~ Albus Dumbledore

Humans have a knack for choosing precisely the things that are worst for them.
~ Dumbledore

Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign,
even in the wizarding world.
~ Ron

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.
- Albus Dumbledore

A dream is a wish your heart makes!
~ Cinderella

Have you ever confused a dream with life?
Or stolen something when you have the cash?
Have you ever been blue?
Or thought your train moving while sitting still?
Maybe I was just crazy. Maybe it was the 60's.
Or maybe I was just a girl...
~ girl interrupted

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

Life and death. energy and peace. if i stopped today,
It was still worth it. even the terrible mistakes that i have made,
and would have unmade if i could.
The pains that have burned me and scarred my soul.
it was worth it for having been allowed to walk where i've walked,
which was to hell on earth, heaven on earth,
back again, into, under, far inbetween, though it, in it and above...
- Angelina Jolie in the movie Gia

We can't all, and some of us don't.
That's all there is to it.
--Eeyore (A. A. Milne)

So now," he thought, "somebody else will have to do something,
and I hope they will do it soon, because if they don't I shall have to swim,
which I can't, so I hope they do it soon."
And then he gave a very long sign and said, "I wish Pooh were here.
It's so much more friendly with two.
Piglet, A. A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

The truth is, I probably don't want to be too happy or content,
'cause then what? I actually like the quest, the search. That's the fun.
- Ally McBeal

And how are you?" said Winnie-the-Pooh.
Eeyore shook his head from side to side.
"Not very how," he said.
"I don't seem to have felt at all how for a long time.
(Eeyore's Little Book of Gloom)

I think I just need to believe that it works.
Love, couplehood, partnerships.
The idea that when two people come together, they stay together.
I have to take that to bed with me every night,
even if I'm going to bed alone. That's a McBealism.
- Ally McBeal

One of the keys to life: the fast forward.
Every movie has its lousy parts.
The trick is to fast forward through them.
As time passes, you look back and say oh, that little thing, oh that.
You fast forward to then right now, and you're over it.
- Ally McBeal

Sometimes it seems like we're all living in some sort of prison,
and the crime is how much we all hate ourselves.
It's good to get really dressed up once in a while and admit the truth.
That when you really look closely,
people are so strange and so complicated
that they're actually beautiful...possibly even me...
- "My So Called Life"
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everything else

Childhood is short and maturity is forever.
(thank you quel)

I have these moments of weakness, but i've had a lifetime of strength,
and i know i will defeat this, but that's not what my heart wants to think.
Trisha Yearwood

I don't want to live like this anymore
There goes my pain, there goes my chains
Did you see them fall
There goes the feeling that has no meaning
There goes the world off of my shoulders
Quasimodo

I am said, I cried, and I am lost and I don't even know why.
Neil Diamond

I am large.
I contain multitudes.
Walt Whitman

I've been trying for some time to develop a lifestyle
that doesn't require my presence.
Gary Trudeau

You know how people are.
They only recognize greatness when some authority confirms it.
Calvin from Calvin & Hobbes

Clothes make the man.
Naked people have little or no influence on society.
Mark Twain

It is awfully hard to be b-b-brave, said Piglet, sniffing slightly,
"when you are only a Very Small Animal.
A.A. Milne

Half the people in the world are below average.

Too often, we lose sight of life's simple pleasures.
Remember, when someone annoys you,
it takes 42 muscles in your face to frown BUT,
it only takes 4 muscles to extend your arm
and smack the a$$hole upside the head.

In an atomic war, all men will be cremated equal.

Give me the power to accept what I can not change,
the courage to change what I can,
and the wisdom to hide the bodies of those
I had to kill cause they pissed me off.

you're just jealous because the voices talk to me and not you

You have the right to remain silent, so shut the fuck up!

Chaos, panic, & disorder - my work here is done.

Is it time for your medication or mine?

THINK -- it gives you something to do while the computer is down
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german

Willst /du immer weiter schweifen, wen das Gute liegt so nah?
Lerne nur das Glueck ergreifen, denn das Glueck ist immer da.

Das Glück ist wie ein Mosaik,
es setzt sich zusammen aus lauter kleinen Freundlichkeiten!

Das Leben zu leben heisst auch das Unvorhergesehene zu überwinden.

GEDULD ist ein Baum, dessen Wurzel bitter,
aber dessen Frucht süss schmeckt!

Wenn dir das Leben eine Zitrone gibt, mach Limonade draus!

Wer ständig in andere Fußstapfen tritt, hinterlässt keine eigenen Spuren...

Gemessen an der Unendlichkeit ist unser Leben zu kurz,
um es nicht zu geniessen und zu lieben.

Auf einem weiten Weg gibt es keine leichten Lasten.

Das Leben kann nur in der Schau nach rückwärts
verstanden, aber nur in der Schau nach vorwärts gelebt werden.

Der Mensch kann sich nicht erneuern ohne zu leiden.
Denn er ist Marmor und Bildhauer zugleich.

Die Maus ist ein Tier, dessen Pfad mit in Ohnmacht
fallenden Frauen übersät ist.

Der Zweifel am Siege entschuldigt nicht das Aufgeben des Kampfes.

Die Hoffnung ist der Regenbogen über dem
herabstürzenden Bach des Lebens

Regen… jeder Tropfen ist ein Stück voller Hoffnung;
Halte die Hände auf.

Sieh in den Himmel und Du wirst den größten Stern sofort erfassen.
Für den kleinen aber mußt Du weit gehen um ihn zu erkennen.
Doch nah genug wird er der schönste sein.

Diejenigen, die gehen, fühlen nicht den Schmerz des Abschieds.
Der Zurückbleibende leidet.

Auch aus Steinen, die in den Weg gelegt werden,
kann man einen Tempel bauen.

Diejenigen, die Liebe am wenigsten verdienen,
brauchen sie am meisten.

Auf dem Hühnerhof war der Hahn erkrankt.
Niemand konnte mehr damit rechnen,
er werde auch am nächsten Morgen noch krähen.
Abschied war angesagt.
Die Hennen machten sich Sorgen - sie waren felsenfest davon überzeugt,
die Sonne gehe nur auf, weil der Meister sie rufe.
Der nächste Morgen aber belerhte sie eines Besseren:
Die Sonne ging auf, wie jeden Tag; nichts hatte ihren
Gang beeinflusst.~

Als ich am Boden lag und dachte das fallen sei zu Ende, rappelte ich mich auf, und der Boden brach ein.
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