Nineteen

“People often say that ‘beauty is in the eye of the beholder,’ and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves.”

— Salma Hayek

"If you don't know what you want, you end up with a lot you don't"

Chuck Palahniuk

"Their house had real hardcover books in it, and you often saw them lying open on the sofa, the words still warm from being read."
--David Sedaris

"Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried, than before—more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle."

--Great Expectations, Charles Dickens

"What we need is to love without getting tired."
-Mother Theresa

"Keep away from those who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that."
-Mark Twain

"For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone."
-Audrey Hepburn

“I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.”

— Audrey Hepburn

"'Stay' is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary"
-Louisa May Alcott

"Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies."
--Erich Fromm

"To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used tot he unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never to forget."

--Arundhati Roy

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"There seems to be no human emotion more universal or more keenly felt than the dull, persistent ache of missing someone"

Eighteen

"Give me a man who is man enough to give himself just to the woman who is worth him. If that woman were me, I would love him alone, and forever."
-Francesca Bruni from the movie Casanova
^terrible movie. amazing quote.

"If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough."
-Oprah Winfrey

Chuck: I can't even hug you? What if you need a hug? A hug can turn your day around.
Ned: I'm not a big fan of the hug
Chuck: Then you haven't been hugged properly. It's like an emotionally Heimlich. Someone puts their arms around you and they give you a squeeze and all your fear and anxiety comes shooting out of your mouth in a big wet wad and you can breath again.
-Pushing Daisies

"There is no remedy for love, but to love more."
-Thoreau

“It takes two to speak the truth- One to speak, and another to hear.”

— Henry David Thoreau

"There are no 'good' or 'bad' people. Some are a little better or a little worse but all are activated more by misunderstanding than malice. A blindness to what is going on in each other's hearts."
-Tennessee Williams

“I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everyone.”

— Bill Cosby

"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."
-Albert Einstein

"You know what the secret is? It's so simple. We love one another. We're nice to one another. Do you know how rare that is?"
-Ann Brashares

“If only closed minds came with closed mouths.”

— Nicole Aitoro

"There is no such thing as gratitude unexpressed. If it is unexpressed, it is plain, old-fashioned ingratitude."
-Robert Braulthttp

"I didnt know why I was going to cry, but I knew that if anybody spoke to me or looked at me too closely the tears would fly out of my eyes and the sobs would fly out of my throat and I'd cry for a week. I could feel the tears brimming and sloshing like water in a glass that is unsteady and too full."
-The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

"If you love something set it free, but don't be surprised if it comes back with herpes."
-Chuck Palahniuk

“Patience is the art of hoping.”

— Luc De Vauvanargues

“You can erase someone from your mind. Getting them out of your heart is another story”

— Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

“One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.”

— Bob Marley

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Impromptu Personal Thought:
"I would argue that, more than 'I love you', the three most meaningful words in the English language are 'I'm always here.' Love means nothing without proof through action."

Seventeen

“Don’t try to be different. Just be good. To be good is different enough.”

— Arthur Freed

“My life is my message.”

-Gandhi

^(as seen on a wrist tattoo. pretty epic)

"Mediocrity is forgiven more easily than talent."
— Emil Krotky

“Life’s disappointments are harder to take when you don’t know any swear words.”

— Calvin & Hobbes

“It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous, that you realize just how much you love them.”
— Agatha Christie, An Autobiography

"Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don’t matter at all, because once you are Real you can’t be ugly, except to people who don’t understand."

-The Velveteen Rabbit, Margery Williams Bianco
^One of the greatest books of my youth.

“Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren’t.”

— Margret Thatcher

"They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it’s not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance. "

— Terry Pratchett

"Hell, when you're a kid you've got all the energy and all the free time in the world. You'll never have a chance to devote more to love ever again in your life."
-Barry Lyga

"The right person is still gonna think the sun shines out of your ass. That’s the kind of person that’s worth stickin around.”
— Juno
^My dad tells me that all the time.
Only he says behind...not ass

“Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer.”

— Ed Cunningham

"No day is so bad it can’t be fixed with a nap"
-Carrie P. Snow

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"I used to believe that being in love meant being overwhelmed by intense passion, which could only be subdued by immediate reciprocation. But now I'm starting to believe that being in love- really being in love- involves a determined patience. And although its been said a thousand times, in a hundred different ways--it is having a deep desire for the other's happiness-- even when you have no part in it."

Sixteen

Sunlight finds a way

of always decorating
your eyes just for me.

-Daily Haiku on Love by Tyler Knott

"I wish I could make him understand that a loving good heart is riches enough, and that without it, intellect is poverty."

-The Diaries of Adam and Eve, Mark Twain

"I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart."

-Master Humphrey’s Clock, Charles Dickens

"Los of catel may reovered be, but los of tyme shendeth us"
(Loss of property may be recovered, but loss of time ruins us)
-Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales

"When we are born, we cry that we are come
To this great stage of fools"

— Lear, King Lear, Act IV, scene iv


“I love you with so much of my heart that none is left to protest”
-Beatrice, Much Ado About Nothing, Act IV, scene

"I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen."

-The Winter of Our Discontent, John Steinbeck

"People always say that, when you love someone, nothing in the world matters. But that's not true, is it? You know, and I know, that when you love someone, everything in the world matters a little bit more."

-Jodi Picoult, Handle with Care

"Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him."

-Texts and Pretexts, Aldous Huxley

"A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved."

-The Sirens of Titan, Kurt Vonnegut

"He was like a song I’d heard once in fragments but had been singing in my mind ever since."

-Memoirs of a Geisha, Arthur Golden

"Death cannot stop true love. All it can do is delay it for a while."

-The Princess Bride, William Goldman

"She gave him a thousand opportunities; she fought to turn his words to serious things. He baffled her with his shallow smile and ready tongue, that twisted all topics to triviality."
-Moonchild, Aleister Crowley

You have peace,” the old woman said, “when you make it with yourself.

-The Five People You Meet in Heaven, Mitch Albom

"I'd long ago learned not to be picky in farewells. They weren't guaranteed or promised. You were lucky...more than blessed...if you got to say goodbye at all."
-Sarah Dessen's The Truth About Forever

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Impromptu Personal Thought:

Selfess acts are the purest form of poetry.