Favorite Quotes

Submitted by CammeoElizabeth on Mon, 06/14/2010 - 08:01
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  • "No matter how much time has passed, these things still affect us and the world we live in. If you don't pay attention to the past, you'll never understand the future. It's all linked together." - Sarah Dessen
  • "The past did affect the present and the future, in ways you could see and a million ones you couldn't. Time wasn't a thing you could divide easily; there was no defined middle or beginning or end. I could pretend to leave the past behind, but it would not leave me." - Sarah Dessen
  • "I was worn out, broken: He had taken almost everything. But he'd been all I'd had, all this time. And when the police led him away, I pulled out of the hands of all these loved one, sobbing, screaming, everything hurting, to try and make him stay." - Sarah Dessen
  • "because a song can take you back instantly to a moment, or a place, or even a person. no matter what else has changed in you or the world, that one song stays the same, just like that moment." - Sarah Dessen
  • "Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that's what makes you strong.","inspirational, strength, tough times" - Sarah Dessen
  • "There comes a time when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your own heart. So you'd better learn the sound of it. Otherwise you'll never understand what it's saying." - Sarah Dessen
  • "Life can be long or short, it all depends on how you choose to live it. it's like forever, always changing. for any of us our forever could end in an hour, or a hundred years from now. you can never know for sure, so you'd better make every second count. what you have to decide is how you want your life to be. if your forever was ending tomorrow, is this how you'd want to have spent it?" - Sarah Dessen
  • "Because this is what happens when you try to run from the past. it doesn't just catch up: it overtakes, blotting out the future, the landscape, the very sky, until there is no path left except that which leads through it, the only one that can ever get you home." - Sarah Dessen
  • "well, it's true that i have been hurt in my life. Quite a bit. But it's also true that i have loved, and been loved. and that carries a weight of it's own. a greater weight, in my opinion. it's like that pie chart we talked about earlier. in the end, i'll look back on my life and see that the greatest piece of it was love. the problems, the divorces, the sadness... those will be there too, but just smaller slivers, tiny pieces. " - Sarah Dessen
  • "Love is needing someone. Love is putting up with someone's bad qualities because they somehow complete you." - Sarah Dessen
  • "Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.","inspirational, love, peace, darkness, hate, drive-out, light" - Martin Luther King Jr.
  • "There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment." By Sarah Dessen
  • "We love the things we love for what they are." - Robert Frost
  • "Love doesn't just sit there like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new." - Ursula K. Le Guin
  • "Let me die the moment my love dies. Let me not outlive my own capacity to love. Let me die still loving, and so, never die. - Mary Zimmerman
  • "You wake from dreams of doom and--for a moment--you know: beyond all the noise and the gestures, the only real thing, love's calm unwavering flame in the half-light of an early dawn." - Dag Hammarskjöld
  • "One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving." - Paulo Coelho
  • "You know you are in love when you see the world in her eyes,and her eyes everywhere in the world. - David Levesque
  • "None of us can choose where we shall love..." - Susan Kay
  • "Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend." - Albert Camus
  • "A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you." - Elbert Hubbard
  • "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." - Friedrich Nietzsche
  • "There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature." - Jane Austen
  • "Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend." - Sarah Dessen
  • "A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words." - Donna Roberts
  • "If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever." - Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • "I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light." - Helen Keller
  • "We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?' asked Piglet. Even longer,' Pooh answered." - A.A. Milne
  • "Why did you do all this for me?"" he asked. ""I don't deserve it. I've never done anything for you.'You have been my friend,' replied Charlotte. 'That in itself is a tremendous thing." - E.B. White
  • "Everyone has a gift for something, even if it is the gift of being a good friend." - Marian Anderson
  • "You are my best friend as well as my lover, and I do not know which side of you I enjoy the most. I treasure each side, just as I have treasured our life together." - Nicholas Sparks
  • "Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions." - Dalai Lama XIV
  • "People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be." - Abraham Lincoln
  • "Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy." - Guillaume Apollinaire
  • "So many books, so little time." - Frank Zappa
  • "Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself." - George Bernard Shaw
  • "Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers." - Charles W. Eliot
  • "Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back." - John Green
  • "Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life." - Mark Twain
  • "I'm the one that has to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life, the way I want to." - Jimi Hendrix
  • "Death ends a life, not a relationship." - Mitch Albom
  • "Life is too short when you think of the length of death" - Sean Mangan
  • "Death cannot stop true love. All it can do is delay it for a while." - William Goldman
  • "One lives in the hope of becoming a memory." - Antonio Porchia
  • "Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it." - Mark Twain
  • "Without music, life would be a mistake." - Friedrich Nietzsche
  • "The only escape from the miseries of life are music and cats..." - Albert Schweitzer
  • "Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight." - Phyllis Diller
  • "Just going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than standing in your garage makes you a car." - G.K. Chesterton
  • "What makes big boobs and perkiness so attractive to boys? I mean, really. Two round, mounds of fat and a fake smile. Yeah, winning attributes." - Gena Showalter
  • "[Thine] face is not worth sunburning." - William Shakespeare
  • "When life gives you lemons, squirt someone in the eye." - Cathy Guiswite
  • "You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough." - Mae West
  • "A day without sunshine is like, you know, night." - Steve Martin
  • "Happiness is a warm puppy." - Charles M. Schulz
  • "Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea." - Robert A. Heinlein
  • "It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it's called Life." - Terry Pratchett
  • "Holding people away from you, and denying yourself love, that doesn't make you strong. if anything, it makes you weaker. Because you're doing it out of fear." - Sarah Dessen
  • "for once, you believed in yourself. you believed you were beautiful and so did the rest of the world." - Sarah-Dessen
  • "We said we'd walk together baby come what may.That come the twilight should we lose our way.If as we're walkin a hand should slip free,I'll wait for you. And should I fall behind,Wait for me. - Bruce Springsteen
  • "Don't think or judge, just listen." - Sarah Dessen
  • "No relationship is perfect, ever. There are always some ways you have to bend, to compromise, to give something up in order to gain something greater...The love we have for each other is bigger than these small differences. And that's the key. It's like a big pie chart, and the love in a relationship has to be the biggest piece. Love can make up for a lot." - Sarah Dessen
  • "Sometimes it seems safer to hold it all in, where the only person who can judge is yourself." - Sarah Dessen
  • "You know, when it works, love is pretty amazing. It's not overrated. There's a reason for all those songs." - Sarah Dessen
  • "All I'd ever wanted was to forget. but even when I thought I had, pieces had kept emerging, like bits of wood floating up to the surface that only hint at the shipwreck below." - Sarah Dessen
  • "You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past." - Chuck Palahniuk