"Bach gave us God's word. Mozart gave us God's laughter. Beethoven gave us God's fire. God gave us music, that we might pray without words." --unknown

"If you cut off too soon you lose the connection to the rest."
"Don't let the piano lose vocal intensity."
"Make the crescendo mean more. This is a cry for help."
"The reason that this stuff is with us is because it's so bloody relevant!"
"Keep very little vibrato here. No wiggles!"
"Don't make it in tune because it's supposed to be. This phrase is inclinig towards the Lord, that's why it must be higher."
"It's so important that we stay engaged to the human intent."
"The issue isn't whether you're a church person. The music prays."
--Dr. Joseph Flummerfelt

"The orchestra doesn't follow us. We sing together."
"Preparation is very important. Play to the vowel, not the consonant."
--Dr. Joyce Farwell

"Sing the whole grocery list, we're gonna get the pop tarts." "I like granola bars." "okay, granola bars." --Dr. Lee Thompson, Matthew Wallace

"Tell the story. Act like you're in a movie; show the audience what's happening. Tell the story."
"When you throw yourself into the aria, that's when you start seeing the meaning."
"It's not about the note, it's about the language."
"Long, beautiful lines. Listen to the piano part and add to the beauty, not stand apart from it."
"Make it intimate, make the song personal."
"C.S. Lewis said that sometimes you have to go outside the poem and get the true meaning of it, then come back into the poem and make it real."
"Fully understand what the poem means. If you understand what the poem means, you will sing it like it's supposed to be sung."
--Dr. Lee Thompson

"It's as much about shaping the music as it is about taking a breath." --Dr. Hightower

"Don't sing the beginning of the song like you've already read the end of the story."
"Don't sing that first aria like he's dead already."
--Dr. Joyce Farwell

"It's merely symptomatic of our post-modern ennui. There are no absolutes, unless you perceive our world as meaningless, when it's really your OWN freedom you DETEST!" --Brak

hahaha

"I have seen a flying bassoon!" --Mr. McAdow

"Is art entertainment? Art teaches us about who we are. Entertainment tells us who to be. Art is a public service. Entertainment is a private product. Art opens our minds. Entertainment thinks for you. Art is publicly offered. Entertainment is publicly traded. Art is the words we wish to say, but lack the language to say it." --Justin Dillon

"where words fail, music speaks."

"The fact is, our lives do preach. But what do they preach? Do they announce to the world that God mourns with those who mourn and is risen 'with healing in His wings'? Or do our lives announce that God is apathetic?" --Rick McKinley

John Keating: No matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas can change the world.

John Keating: They're not that different from you, are they? Same haircuts. Full of hormones, just like you. Invincible, just like you feel. The world is their oyster. They believe they're destined for great things, just like many of you, their eyes are full of hope, just like you. Did they wait until it was too late to make from their lives even one iota of what they were capable? Because, you see gentlemen, these boys are now fertilizing daffodils. But if you listen real close, you can hear them whisper their legacy to you. Go on, lean in. Listen, you hear it? - - Carpe - - hear it? - - Carpe, carpe diem, seize the day boys, make your lives extraordinary.

John Keating: We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for. To quote from Whitman, "O me! O life!... of the questions of these recurring; of the endless trains of the faithless... of cities filled with the foolish; what good amid these, O me, O life?" Answer. That you are here - that life exists, and identity; that the powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse. That the powerful play *goes on* and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be?

John Keating: Sucking all the marrow out of life doesn't mean choking on the bone

John Keating: There is a time for daring and a time for caution, and a wise man knows which is called for.

John Keating: We're not laughing at you - we're laughing near you.

[Quoting Henry David Thoreau]
Neil: I went into the woods because I wanted to live deliberately. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life... to put to rout all that was not life; and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

John Keating: Close your eyes - closure! Close 'em! Now, describe what you see.
Todd Anderson: I... I close my eyes, and this image floats beside me.
John Keating: A sweaty-toothed madman.
Todd Anderson: A sweaty-toothed madman with a stare that pounds my brain.
John Keating: Oh, that's *excellent*! Now, give him action - make him do something!
Todd Anderson: His hands reach out and choke me.
John Keating: That's it! Wonderful, wonderful!
Todd Anderson: And all the time he's mumbling.
John Keating: What's he mumbling?
Todd Anderson: Mumbling truth... Truth's like a blanket that always leaves your feet cold.
John Keating: [some of the class start to laugh] Forget them, forget them! Stay with the blanket. Tell me about that blanket!
Todd Anderson: Y-You push it, stretch it, it'll never be enough. You kick at it, beat it, it will never cover any of us. From the moment we enter crying to the moment we leave dying, it will cover just your head as you wail and cry and scream!
[class appauds]
John Keating: Don't you forget this.

John Keating: Mr. Anderson! Don't think that I don't know that this assignment scares the hell out of you! You mole!

[after hearing "The Introduction to Poetry"]
John Keating: Excrement! That's what I think of Mr. J. Evans Pritchard! We're not laying pipe! We're talking about poetry. How can you describe poetry like American Bandstand? "I like Byron, I give him a 42 but I can't dance to it!"

John Keating: Boys, you must strive to find your own voice. Because the longer you wait to begin, the less likely you are to find it at all. Thoreau said, "Most men lead lives of quiet desperation." Don't be resigned to that. Break out!

John Keating: I SOUND MY BARBARIC YAWP OVER THE ROOFTOPS OF THE WORLD.

--all from Dead Poets' Society

Seth: Why do people cry?
Maggie: What do you mean?
Seth: I mean... what happens physically?
Maggie: Well... umm... tear ducts operate on a normal basis to lubricate and protect the eye and when you have an emotion they overreact and create tears.
Seth: Why? Why do they overreact?
Maggie: [pause] I don't know.
Seth: Maybe... maybe emotion becomes so intense your body just can't contain it. Your mind and your feelings become too powerful... and your body weeps.
--City of Angels

"The best things in life are unseen. That's why we close our eyes to kiss, cry, pray, and dream."

"There's no one more grateful to sit at the table than the one who best remembers hunger's pain." --Shane & Shane

"And in light of all we have been forgiven of, we will find our hearts fuller and freer to give and receive God's love." --Shane & Shane

“sorry, I was gored by the comfy chair.”
--Will & Grace
“you can’t devastate me and then kick me out, you’re not my lover!”
--Will & Grace
“I wanna sing a ballad…I can cry really good. I can do the single tear.”
--Will & Grace
“man, you are Westminster Crabby!”
--Friends
“don’t you point your pants at ME!”
--Friends

“if I had any job in the world, I’d be a professional Cinderella.”
“can I give you some advice? DON’T POINT YOUR FINGER AT CRAZY PEOPLE!”
“just play something. If talking did shit we’d be out of here by now.”
--Girl, Interrupted

"Home was never really a place, anyway. Heaven isn't home, Christ is." --anon.

“boys don’t like funny girls!” “noted.”

“michel, the phone.” “mmhmm, it rings.” “can you answer it?” “no, I cannot, people are being especially stupid today.”

“all this time I’ve spent avoiding group sports? It was very smart because I suck at them.”

“where’s your pate?” “at zsa zsa gabor’s house.”

“okay, there’s academic minded and then there’s amish.”

“grandpa, how’s work?” “well, people die, we pay; people crash a car, we pay; people lose a foot, we pay.” “well at least you have your new slogan.”

“I’m okay, I just…do I look shorter? I feel shorter.”

“so tell me about the guy.” “you know what’s great about our relationship? The total understanding of boundaries. I mean, you really respect my personal space.” “…so tell me about the guy.”

“I’m gonna be late for my first day of school. Do you know what happens to people when they’re late for the first day?” “it gets shorter?”

“this is the last time I buy anything just because it’s furry.”

“this is a jumbo coffee morning. I need coffee in an IV!”

“is there a problem?” “oh, nothing Shakespeare couldn’t turn into a really good play.”

“lane! Your mom’s gonna get upset if I keep sending you home fed AND happy!”

“I loved the little sombrero napkin holders. Very ole.”
--Gilmore Girls

“**gasp** I’m a sexual harasser!” “well then you need some fake eyelashes.”

“they’re at the movies, there’s no drugs there! They don’t even have the real Red Vines!”

“I do not want to incur the wrath of Luke.” “why not? It’s fun.”

“I like this wine, it’s very nice…you can smell the italians’ feet.”

“maybe you would like to take a picture of me, with you, tonight, ya know, so you can sleep with it?”

“what’s its name?” “case study number 12.” “is that hyphenated?”

“I think I’m getting scurvy.” “you do?” “yeah, well either that or a cold, but either way I need some fruit.”

“you’re going to a party?” “yes I am.” “honey, why don’t you just stay at home and read The Bell Jar? Same effect.”

“you’re just jealous cause they like Rory better than you.” “oh, thank you, for the hug.”

“You brought me used dessert?”

“look at the various red marks on your paper as a reminder that to err is human. And here at Chilton we try to beat that human right out of you.”

“hah, I got the vein in the forehead, woo!” “sadist.”

“eugh. Your patented ‘do it now or something evil will befall you’ look.”

“mmm! Tasty AND flame retardant.”

“do you like coffee?” “…only with my oxygen.”

“well, listen now, my fine friend, who, if you had a better hairstyle, I might consider dating…”
--Gilmore Girls

“well, I want to be in the Bangles, but that doesn’t mean I quit my job and buy a guitar and ruin my life, to be a Bangle, does it?”

“do you have any hemlock back there, arsenic, something quick?”

“wow, round 1 and already tapped.”

“well, I don’t mean ‘funny’ funny, I’m being philosophical.”

“this is a real crossroads situation, it’s like to perm or not to perm.”

“you don’t do yoga on the dalai llama’s mat and you don’t get behind my counter! Period!”

“no, no, you’re memorable! I’ve been memorabling you all week!”

“I never thought a man would want me.” “I know what you mean.” “Aw, please, with that ass?” “I mean, want me for more than my ass. Me for me, the whole package. Annoying neurosis and all.”

“when were you planning on telling me this, at your wedding?” “no, by the rehearsal dinner at least!”

“why didn’t you tell me?” “cause I thought you were gonna take it bad, thank God I was wrong.”

“someday, you’ll meet some really great guy, and he’ll make your head all foggy and you won’t know what to do with yourself.”

“mom, sissy talked to her stuffed animals and they answered her.”

“well, what’s new?” “I was being impossible and then I turned into a Jewish comedian.”

“I think that goes without saying.” “only in your world, mom.”

“please be serious, we’re shopping for Rory!” “no, I’m shopping for Rory. You’re shopping for your imaginary granddaughter, Barbara Hutton.”

“wow, nice face you got on there.”

“so, now tell me, why miss lemonhead today?”

“you’re smiling. You’re pleased that the ice man looked at you like a porterhouse steak.”
--Gilmore Girls

“mmaaaahhhh now I’m crabby, I’m crabby and useless!”

“sorry, just feeling a little persecuted lately. Coffee?”

“wow, it’s expensive to slowly rot your insides, isn’t it?”

“this isn’t Amish country; girls and boys usually date alone!”

“he’s the boy that I like!” “I know, I tried to find one you hated, but they were all out.”

“I’m afraid once your heart’s involved it ALL comes out in moron.”

“since when do you not like avocado?” “since the day I said ‘what’s this?’ and you said avocado.”

“all I ever said about dances is that you go, you eat, you take a picture, and then you get auctioned off to a biker gang from Saucalito.”

“what guy?” “I don’t know. The guy who hangs out in our trees all day when you’re not home?...he hit his head on a branch one day when I closed a window too quickly.”

“and she’s reading again. How novel.”

“how many languages can you say ‘none of your business’ in?”

“you’re sixteen, you have skin like a baby’s ass! There’s nothing to primp!”

“ ‘we’re here’? that’s how you answer the door?” “well, I was all out of saran wrap.”

“oh, a stroke would be so good right about now.”

“have you seen The Outsiders? Just call me pony boy.”
--Gilmore Girls

“you traded my Christmas gift for a slightly pornographic leering monkey lamp?”

“whenever you got sick I made this.” “are you sure it wasn’t the other way around?”

“I’ve always dreamed that a guy would get ME a confusing Czechoslovakian novel.”

“you made me a santa burger! He has a hat and everything! No one has ever made me something quite this disgusting before. I thank you.”

“but there’s food and there’s people and there’s a burger with a face!”

“what, you’re psychic guy and you’re getting visions while you’re driving at 20 mph in the oldest truck known to man?”

“where’s the scarecrow when you need him?”

“your mother called me an idiot.” “wow, you must have sucked up good.”

“can we please talk about something besides my formerly huge head?”

“I don’t want Boo Radley touching my rosebud wallpaper!”

“get away from me, you mental patient!”

“I’m gonna throw my purse at you!”

“marzipan is a unique substance unto itself; it’s like velveeta, or plutonium.”

“you look like my seven-year-old when she’s all grumpypuss.”

“I’m weak. I have no spine.” “if you had no spine, you’d be walking funnier.”

“that had all the tact of a Nazi storm trooper.”

“you kicked me out; what were you expecting, a candygram?”

“he’s a grown man with an etch-a-sketch!” “so shake him real hard, maybe he’ll disappear!”

“I’m going to make out in the coat room. Don’t eat my chicken.” “that’s going on your tombstone.”
--Gilmore Girls

“well, he was standing, and breathing…I think all signs point to alive.”

“you mean that unsightly girth is nature-given? He must curse God nightly.”

“what’s that smell?” “it’s the smell of my soldering iron. I LOVE it. I LOVE burning things!”

“I have nothing cute to say for my message. Ooh! Puppies! Hey, that’s cute. Now leave yours.”

“I though you were my mom! But my mom doesn’t speak in a resonant basso profundo.”

“well, I’ve got the next two hours planned…and then there’s darkness and possibly dragons.”

“I didn’t know you were gonna be here.” “yeah, well, the white rabbit ran by, I chased him down a hole and now here I am.”

“you sound distracted; did something cute just walk by?”

“how can you be so mean to me when I only managed to line one of my eyes?”

“I could kind of tell you were dating someone.” “what? How?” “well, you never dressed weather appropriate, that kind of thing.”

“I’m not incapable, I just haven’t been hit in the head with the Oprah stick lately!”

“where are you getting this junk?” “life. I’ve lived.” “where, in a bette midler movie?”

“hey guys. You probably shouldn’t shove a radish up your son’s nose. Just a thought.”
--Gilmore Girls

"Heros are heros because they have risked something to help others. Their actions involve courage. Often those heros have been indifferent to the public's attention."
James Bradley, Flags of Our Fathers

"She always plays a tough girl, like, "Hi, I'm tough girl.""
-Anne

"Eternity is a really long time."
Brandon Scott

"creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep."

"I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day." -vincent van gogh

I’m not an abstractionist. I’m not interested in the relationship of color or form or anything else. I’m interested only in expressing basic human emotions: tragedy, ecstasy, doom, and so on." - mark rothko

"Look, I guarantee there'll be tough times and I guarantee that at some point one or both of us will want to get out of this thing. But I also guarantee that if I don't ask you to be mine, I'll regret it for the rest of my life cause I know in my heart you're the only one for me."
~ Runaway Bride

"the best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago; the second best time is now." --tim stevenson?

"Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young." Benjamin Franklin

...Like the winds of the sea are the ways of fate, as we voyage along through life: tis' the set of the soul that decides its goal, and not the calm or the strife.
-ella wheeler wilcox

" i am in the procession of a Conqueror, and He always leads me to triumph."

Cause we're so scared to find out what this life's all about.
So scared we're gonna lose it. But knowing all along, that's exactly what we need...inconsistently crying out for consistency -Relient K

"Peace isn't the absence of trouble, but the presence of God" -Tim Stevenson

"Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist" -G.K. Chesterson (1874-1936)

"Jesus was born in the middle east, and is white with rosey cheeks...ya right" -Dr. Hightower

"Solfege is my friend!" -Dr. Hightower

"A choir is only as good as you think they can be." -Mr. Franklin

"If you want to see a miracle, look at the single mom who works two jobs but still finds time to take her daughter to soccer practice. That's a miracle. Look at the teenager who says no to drugs and yes to an education, that's a miracle. If you want to see a miracle son, be one!" -Morgan Freeman as God, in "Bruce Almighty"

"It's easy to be brave from a safe distance." -Aesop

" every heart is a profound mystery to the heart beating nearest it..."
~ Charles Dickens

Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.
C. S. Lewis

If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.
C. S. Lewis

"But in the end, it’s only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something, even if you were too small to understand why. But I think I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back only they didn’t. They kept going because they were holding on to something……There’s some good in this world... And it’s worth fighting for!" -- Sam, Lord of the Rings

"If I find in myself desires which nothing in this world can satisfy, the only logical explanation is that I was made for another world." ~C.S. Lewis

"And you said 'I know that this will hurt... but if I don't break your heart, things will just get worse. And if the burden seems too much to bear, remember the end will justify the pain it took to get us there.'"
-Relient K

"You know that part in The Sound of Music with the gazebo? With the beautiful boy singing to Liesl? Well that's sort of how I always dreamed it would be when I was younger. I've always had that picture in my head, and I'm not ready to give up on it."
-Marissa from the O.C.

"I don't want dancers who want to dance, I want dancers who have to dance." --Martha Graham

"There is no theory. You have only to listen. Pleasure is the law. I love music passionately. And because l love it, I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it. It is a free art gushing forth, an open-air art boundless as the elements, the wind, the sky, the sea. It must never be shut in and become an academic art." - Claude Debussy

"If you don't want him bad enough to risk losing him, you don't want him bad enough." --anon.

"the place that God calls us is that place where the world's deep hunger and our deep desire meet" - Fredrick Buechner

"The shadow proves the sunshine." --Switchfoot

The greatest single cause of atheism in the world
today is Christians who acknowledge Jesus with
their lips, then walk out the door,
and deny Him by their lifestyle. That is what an
unbelieving world simply finds unbelievable. -DC talk

Though you have not seen him, you love him; and even though you do not see him now, you believe in him and are filled with an inexpressible and glorious joy, for you are receiving the goal of your faith, the salvation of your souls. 1 peter 1:8-9

for in this world you will have trouble. but take heart! i have overcome the world!
-john 16:33

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." -Nelson Mandela

But Gideon told them, "I will not rule over you, nor will my son rule over you. The LORD will rule over you." Judges 8:23

"A diminished view of God is the price you pay for your comfort" -Eugene Peterson

I cannot be awake,
For nothing looks to me as it did before.
Or else i am awake for the very first time,
And all else has been a mean sleep. -WW

But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace to me was not without effect. 1 Cor. 15:10

"Love is an ever-fixed mark." --Shakespeare

"You can tell EVERYTHING you need to know about a man by the way he plays his string instrument." --Nancy Kenny

"I have always been addicted to something or other, usually something there's no support group for. Semicolons, for instance, I can never give up for more than two hundred words at a time." - Hilary Mantel

"Gorgeous makes you look twice. Beautiful makes you want to stop and look forever." -Patrick Conlon

"Somehow Christians have a hard time saying things like, 'I don't know why the hell this is happening or how this will end. You guys must be scared to death.' I guess we all need to be able to explain life down to every last detail even when the answers don't mean anything to us. We just can't stand the questions. But in the kingdom of God, I have come to believe, it is all right not to have all the answers, and I think Jesus likes it even more when we don't make up ones that are safe and easy but hollow."
--Rick McKinley

"Our languages may be different, but our hearts are the same...they beat." -- Sharon Gelnett

"Prayer isn't to get a hold of the answer, but to get a hold of God."
-Oswald Chambers

"To laugh often and much,
to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children,
to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends,
to appreciate beauty,
to find the best in others,
to leave the world a bit better,
whether by a healthy child, a garden patch...
to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded!"
Walt Whitman

"People saythey "find" love, as if it were an object hidden by a rock. But love takes many forms, and it is never the same for any man and woman. What people find then is a certain love." ~Mitch Albom

"We should have confidence in the Lord and when that confidence is shaken, we should know exactly Who to turn to."

"Lost love is still love, Eddie. It takes a different form, that's all. You can't see their smile or bring them food or tousle their hair or move them around a dance floor. But when those senses weaken, another heightens. Memory. Memory becomes your partner. You nurture it. You hold it. You dance with it. Life has to end. Love doesn't." ~The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom

"A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan."

"A right delayed is a right denied."

"Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better."

"An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law."

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."

"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character."

"I just want to do God's will. And he's allowed me to go to the mountain. And I've looked over, and I've seen the promised land! I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land."

"If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well."

"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."

"I submit to you that if a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live."

(all Martin Luther King, Jr.)

"Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change."
"We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as placed in an obscure and distant future. It never occurs to us that it has any connection with the day already begun or that death could arrive this same afternoon, this afternoon which is so certain and which has every hour filled in advance."
"Impelled by a state of mind which is destined not to last, we make our irrevocable decisions."
"If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time."
"A cathedral, a wave of storm, a dancer's leap, never turn out to be as high as we had hoped. :
"Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. "
"People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus."
"We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it in full. "
-Marcel Proust

Some people show off their beauty because they want the world to see it. Others hide their beauty because they want the world to see something else.
What do you see?
Everything - Kostos and Lena, Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

"Since there is no realistic factual possibility of regarding Jesus as one who viewed himself as but a simple moral teacher (a kind of Jewish boy scout helping little, old ladies across the Sea of Galilee), and since to consider him insane or an ethical charlatan makes even less sense, there appears to be only a single satisfactory explanation for his claiming to be God, namely, that that was exactly who he is." - John Warwick Montgomery

"The life of obedience to Jesus Christ means living moment by moment in the Spirit of God, and it will be so different from your former life that you will often be considered strange. In fact, the life in the Spirit is such a different life that some of your former associates will probably discuss the question of whether or not you are mentally disturbed." - A.W. Tozer

"And someday I'll sit down with my angel friends
Up in Heaven
They'll tell me about creation
And I'll tell them a story of grace"
-Steven Curtis Chapman

"Bring your history, I'll bring the bread and wine." - Derek Webb

"The day will soon come when we will all have to face the choice between what is right and what is easy." --Dumbledore, Harry Potter :)

"The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple"~Oscar Wilde

"Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat"~Oscar Wilde

"All of us could take a lesson from the weather: it pays no attention to criticism"

"He alone is my rock and my salvation; he is my fortress. I will never be shaken."~Psalm 62:2

I crack a window and feel the cool air cleanse my every pore as I pour my poor heart out To a radio song that's patient and willing to listen My volume drowns it out"

"Let no one look down on your youthfulness, but rather in speech, conduct, love, faith, and purity, show yourself an example of those who believe." 1 tim 412

"Nobody thinks it will work, do they?
No. You just described every great success story."

"The greatest single cause of atheism in the world today
Is Christians who acknowledge Jesus with their lips
Then walk out the door and deny him by their lifestyle.
That is what an unbelieving world simply finds unbelievable." -DC Talk "What if I stumble?"

"Maybe God has a bigger plan for me than I had for myself." -A Walk to Remember

"I don't quite know how to say how I feel. Those three words are said too much. They're not enough." --Snow Patrol

"As we grow up, we learn that the one person who isnt supposed to let you down, probably will, and the one person that you never thought would be there for you, is. Youre going to have fights with your friends, you're going to lose some of your friends, you may even fall in love with one of your friends. You will eventually lose someone you love and love someone you never thought youd find. People are going to hate you, love you, love to hate you, and hate to love you, but the ones you mean the most to will always be there. Life is too short. So have way too much fun - make way too many mistakes - take way too many pictures - have way too many friends and enemies - laugh way too much for way too long - cry over the smallest of things. But most importantly... Love with all you have. " --anon.

"Eventually all the pieces fall into place. Until then, laugh at the confusion, live for the moment and know that everything happens for a reason."

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." Dr. Seuss

"I hope you never look back, but ya never forget,
All the ones who love you, in the place you left,
I hope you always forgive, and you never regret,
And you help somebody every chance you get,
Oh, you find God's grace, in every mistake,
And you always give more then you take.
But More then anything, Yeah, and more then anything,
My wish, for you, is that this life becomes all that you want it to, your dreams stay big, and your worries stay small,
You never need to carry more then you can hold,
And while you're out there getting where you're getting to,
I hope you know somebody loves you, and wants the same things too,
Yeah, this, is my wish." --Rascal Flatts

"Angels exist, only sometimes they haven't got wings and we call them friends."

How much can you know about yourself, you've never been in a fight? I don't wanna die without any scars. So come on; hit me. Brad Pitt, In Fight Club

"A happy heart makes the face cheerful, but heartache crushes the spirit." Proverbs 15:13

"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

"Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm."
Winston Churchill

"Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life." - Berthold Auerbach

"You are the music while the music lasts." - T.S. Elliot

"even when we're at each others hearts with daggers, we know that if we make each other bleed, we'll be the first to try to clean it up. " --anon.

"If you live in the past, you have no future. If you live in the future you will miss the present. But if you live each day to the fullest, you will enjoy all of lifes little suprises." --anon.

"Prime numbers are what is left when you have taken all the patterns away. I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them." -the curious incident of the dog in the night-time by mark haddon, page 12

"After a while, getting what you want all the time is very close to not getting what you want all the time." -A history of the world in 10 1/2 chapters
by Julian Barnes

"There comes a day in every girl's life where she has to face the music and stop being pathetic. This is my moment." -She's out of Control by Kristin Billerbeck, page 85

"A room without books is like a body without a soul." -- Cicero

"Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see." -- C.S Lewis

"The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page." -- Augustine

"I am a part of everything that I have read." -- Theodore Roosevelt

"Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end - no apologies, no regrets." -- Henry Kissinger

"For everything there is a season, a time for every matter under Heaven." -- Ecclesiastes 3:1

"Whoever thought up the word "Mammogram"? Every time I hear it, I think I'm supposed to put my breast in an envelope and send it to someone." ~Jan King

"I'm not going to vacuum 'til Sears makes one you can ride on." ~Roseanne Barr

"When women are depressed they either eat or go shopping. Men invade another country." ~Elayne Boosler

"I never married, because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog that growls every morning, a parrot that swears all afternoon, and a cat that comes home late every night." ~Marie Corelli

"If men can run the world, why can't they stop wearing neckties? How intelligent is it to start the day by tying a noose around your neck?" ~Linda Ellerbee

"If high heels were so wonderful, men would still be wearing them." ~Sue Grafton

"Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass...it's about learning to dance in the rain." --anon.

"When you have the right accessories, you too could be breathtaking."
"And those of you from Japan or Asia..."
--crazy emcee at a luau on Maui

"Do you KNOW the depths of my love for Snapple?" --Alexandra Gholami