"04/05" . . .

'a common, ordinary brick wants to be something more than it is; it wants to be better' indecent proposal

'spiders could lay their eggs and larva could tunnel under your skin. that's how bad your life can get" chuck palahniuk, fight club

'sometimes in order to move on to the next great thing in your life you have to leave the first great thing behind ... kinda like waiting for dessert' everwood

'you can't live without a gut' er

'maybe we like the pain. maybe we're wired like that way ... without it we wouldn't feel real' grey's anatomy

'i am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all' laura ingalls wilder

'yes, we are all searching for someone, and if we can't find them, we can only hope that they will find us' desperate housewives

'and the truth is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more' erica jong

'in moments of truth, we always reveal who we really are. sometimes, we're our own worst enemy. and sometimes, we rise to the occasion' scrubs

'fake love is a very powerful thing ... it's a perfect illustration of why almost everyone i know is either overtly or covertly unhappy ... (society) deliver(s) an amorphous, irrefutable interpretation of how being in love is supposed to feel, and people find themselves wanting that feeling for real ... mass media ... makes it impossible to fall in love with any acumen of normalcy. there is no 'normal,' because everybody is being twisted by the same sources simultaneously ... real people are actively trying to live like fake people, so real people are no less fake' chuck klosterman, sex, drugs, and cocoa puffs

'i'm just your ordinary, average, everyday, sane psycho' liz phair 

'i believe my life's gonna see the love i give returned to me' john mayer

'it's one of those drop-it-and-leave-it-alone things' shrek

'i learn from failure' louis sachar, holes

'nothing said to you should bear any more weight than what you hear yourself say' peggy smires

'time is funny like that. for everything it robs us of, it grants us something. sometimes it's a new friend, sometimes it's a better understanding of ourselves. sometimes, it's just a perfect day' everwood

'later that day i got to thinking about relationships. there are those that open you up to something new and exotic, those that are old and familiar, those that bring up lots of questions, those that bring you somewhere unexpected, those that bring you far from where you started, and those that bring you back. but the most exciting, challenging and significant relationship of all is the one you have with yourself. and if you can find someone to love the you you love, well, that's just fabulous' sex and the city

'if i could have any job in the world, i'd be a professional cinderella' girl interrupted

'you reminded me of what i'm capable of feeling. it's like i was seeing my life through a smudged window, and then i saw you and the smudges were gone. the window was clean' dawson's creek

'there are millions of people out there, but in the end it all comes down to one' crazy/beautiful

'don't let your past dictate who you are, but let it be part of who you will become' my big fat greek wedding

'life is not merely a series of meaningless accidents or coincidences ... but rather, its a tapestry of events that culminate in an exquisite, sublime plan' serendipity

'it's not always easy to do the right thing. like putting someone else's feelings first for a change. even if it goes against what you really want. of course, there's always ramifications. even if you do the right thing, there's no guarantee it'll turn out the right way' scrubs 

'there's a particular brand of pit that grows in your stomach when you know you're losing control and there's nothing you can do about it. Heavy as granite and moldering ... it's the way we're built, i suppose. a natural reaction to the unstoppable spin of the earth below. forever trying to wrest control of life, love, work, and home. and when we can't get control there, we'll fight for it wherever we can. as if we think we could stop the world from spinning just by being mad' everwood

'knowing something in your head is different than feeling it in your heart' jennifer weiner, good in bed

'...don't laugh at people's dreams ... nothing in life is easy. but that's no reason to give up. you'll be surprised what you can accomplish if you set your mind to it. after all, you only have one life, so you should try to make the most of it' louis sachar, holes

'it's interesting how people use that expression life-and-death, as if to imply that life is the opposite of death, but birth is the opposite of death. life has no opposite' dawson's creek

'it's a funny thing when we're forced to see ourselves in a new light. hopefully, you see yourself in time to make a change. and hopefully you'll be respected for it. of course, sometimes, the new light opens your eyes to something you've known in your heart all along' scrubs

'and I know what I have to do now. i have to keep breathing. because tomorrow the sun will rise. who knows what the tide could bring?' cast away

'be who you are and do what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind' dr. seuss

'when hearts swell and hearts break, the feelings that filled them find other homes than human bodies, as moss deprived of earth can live on rock' beth gutcheon, more than you know

'normal is the halfway point between what you want, and what you can actually get' sex & the city

'you can never underestimate the importance of listening' scrubs

'dreams aren't perfect. they come true, not free' dawson's creek

'be brave. be you. be an individual' 7th heaven

'there are moments in life so archetypally perfect, that there's only one right thing to say. but as humans, each with our own idiosyncrasies, we may not always respond the way the universe or say, our parents want or expect us to. it is at moments such as these that we realize that the truth has a distinct cost that can't be bargained down. and in these moments, we must choose whether to pay the price' everwood

'then, you grow up and learn to be cautious. you could break a bone, or a heart. you look before you leap, and sometimes you don't leap at all because there's not always someone there to catch you' sex and the city

'sometimes we put up walls. not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down' unknown

'you can't control what they do, but you can control how you respond to it ... whether you allow it to drive you crazy, or occupy all of your thoughts, or whether you note what they're doing, consider it, and make a conscious decision as to how much you'll let it affect you' jennifer weiner, good in bed

'one way or the other, we all use our illusions' chuck kolsterman, sex, drugs, and cocoa puffs

'distance has a way of distorting things we see. but what appears as an obstacle may in fact be an opportunity. the trick is having enough faith to carry through' everwood

''follow the grain in your own wood' howard thurman

'can you get to the future if your past is in the present?' sex and the city

'if you can't laugh at yourself, life's gonna seem a whole lot longer than you'd like' garden state

'i guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. and maybe we'll never know most of them. but even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there. we can still do things. and we can try to feel okay about them. i think that if i ever have kids, and they are upset, i won't tell them that people are starving in china or anything like that because it wouldn't change the fact that they were upset. and even if somebody else has it much worse, that doesn't really change the fact that you have what you have. good and bad ... maybe it's good to put things into perspective, but sometimes, i think that the only perspective is to really be there ... because it's okay to feel things. and be who you are about them' stephen chbosky, the perks of being a wallflower

'the least and the most each of us can do is make sure we release something good into the universe regularly ... goodwill is reciprocal' oprah

'maybe the dirty little secret about sex is that it isn't so dirty after all. the weird thing is, even though it's natural, sex can make us uncomfortable. but if we work at it, we can get beyond that discomfort. and realize that sex can actually be a comfort. sex can even be a cure' scrubs

'i've learned that things don't always turn out the way you planned, or the way you think they should. and i've learned that there are things that go wrong that don't always get fixed or put back together the way they were before. i've learned that some broken things stay broken, and i've learned that you can get through bad times and keep looking for better ones, as long as you have people who love you' jennifer weiner, good in bed

'we've all heard the proverbs ... we have to make our own mistakes, we have to learn our own lessons ... knowing is better than wondering ... even the worst failure .. beats the hell out of never trying' grey's anatomy

'i don't suppose you have to believe in ghosts to know that we are all haunted, all of us, by things we can see and feel and guess at, and many more things that we can't' beth gutcheon, more than you know

'i realize how silly it is to take anything too seriously' garden state

'everybody is wrong about everything just about all the time' chuck klosterman, sex, drugs, and cocoa puffs

'michelangelo said the best way to judge the essential elements of a sculpture is to throw it down a hill and the unimportant pieces will break away. sometimes life is like that. it tosses us down a hill. but when we reach the bottom and only the important things are left, that's when our vision clears. that's when we hold on tight to what we know, while hope stirs inside us. it's all a matter of perspective' everwood

'i can't wait to figure out what's wrong with me so i can say that this is the way i used to be' john mayer

'a dream is the bearer of a new possibility, the enlarged horizon, the great hope' howard thurman

'sometimes it fucking hurts, but it's life and it's pretty much all we've got' garden state

'from the thrusting up of the rocky mountains, to the carving down of the grand canyon. great change only comes from conflict. but where nature's greatest conflict consists of relentless pounding of water on rock, or collisions under the earth's crust, for people to change, it takes other people' everwood

'so this is my life. and i want you to know that i am both happy and sad and i'm still trying to figure out how that could be' stephen chbosky, the perks of being a wallflower

'love can move the world. the world stands in awe of love' the village

'the winds of change - sometimes they're a gentle breeze, a welcome relief. sometimes a brief gust quickly forgotten. but other times they blow in like a foul and devastating gale blazing a path of destruction which leaves us holding on for dear life' everwood

'sometimes, even when you don't know your direction, you can find your way to something wonderful' sex & the city

'i've always liked the time before dawn because there's no one around to remind me who I'm supposed to be, so it's easier to remember who I am' brian andreas

'a heart is a fragile thing. that's why we protect them so vigorously, give them away so rarely, and why it means so much when we do. some hearts are more fragile than others. purer, somehow. like crystal in a world of glass, even the way they shatter is beautiful' everwood

'some are settling down, some are settling, and some refuse to settle for anything less than butterflies' sex & the city

'people are like that. they can only give you what they have inside' jennifer weiner, in her shoes

'not in love with life? create something new. change yourself, then notice everything change' oprah

'there's nothing in the world like being young and in love. it gives you the power to do things you would never have had the courage to do otherwise. it inspires you to make yourself vulnerable, put your heart on the line ...to give more than you can give. to speak heart-felt sentiments you thought only existed in old books and flowery poetry. and it can make you forget everything except love itself. that one thing that makes life worth living. the object of your affection ... inspired by love, we can move mountains, make great changes, do great things. but we can also become so blinded by it that we forget everything, everyone. even ourselves' everwood

Last update : 06.25.05

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