I have been collecting quotes for years now, and contained on this page are a majority of the ones that really hit home with me. I also included some pretty awesome poetry by Jewel from her book, a night without armor at the end of the page. Anyway, I hope you enjoy everything....

I add quotes as I find new ones and as I remember old quotes that I love, so check back every now and again!

Friendship

Inspirational

Music/Movies

Smart People

Quotes from Jewel

Misc.

Friendship

"The Bond
that links your true family
is not one of blood, but
of respect and joy in
each other's life.
Rarely do members
of one family grow up
under the same
roof."
~Richard Bach "Illusions"~
(Inspired by Gina Capano)

"I'd like to be the sort of the friend that you have been to me;
I'd like to be the help that you've always been glad to be;
I'd like to mean as much to you each minute of the day
As you have meant, old friend of mine, to me along the way."
~Edgar A. Guest~

"There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first... when you learn to live for others, they will live for you."
~Paramahansa Yogananda~

"Dont' be dismayed at good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again; and meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends."
~Richard Bach~

"Friendship is never an accident. It is always the result of high intentions, sincere efforts, intelligent direction, and skillfull execution. It represents the wise choice of many alternatives."

"No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny
without leaving some mark on it forever."
~Francois Mauriac~

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

"You have been my friend," replied Charlotte. "That in itself is a tremendous thing..."
~E.B. White Charlotte's Web

Inspirational

"No one can make me feel inferior without my permission."
~Eleanor Roosevelt~
(Inspired by Mommy)

"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can."
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

"You gain courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you think you cannot do."
~Eleanor Roosevelt~

"There is not enough darkness in the world to put out the light of one candle." "There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it." ~Edith Wharton~

"Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, but your dream will not. Responsibilities need not erase it. Duties need not obscure it. Because the dream is within you, no one can take it away."
~Tom Clancy~

"Tomorrow is the most important thing in life.
It comes to us at midnight very clean.
It is perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands
and hopes we've learned something from yesterday."
~John Wayne~

"Life is a big canvas. Throw all the paint on it you can."
~Danny Kaye~

"Stop worrying where you're going, move on.
If you can know where you're going, you've gone.
I chose, and my world was shaken,
So what?
The choice may have been mistaken,
but the choosing was not."

"You're off to great places!
Today is your day!
Your mountain is waiting
So get on your way..."
~Dr. Seuss~

Music/Movies

"My tea's gone cold, I'm wondering why I got out of bed at all
The morning rain clouds up my window and I can't see at all
And even if I could, It'd all be grey,
But your picture on my wall
It reminds me that it's not so bad, it's not so bad."
~Dido "Thank You"~

"There is fate, but it only takes you so far, because once you're there
it's up to you to make it happen."
~Can't Hardly Wait~

"It can't stop at once because it's in you and you can't stop something that's inside you."
~Pleasantville~

"Let's go now. I'm ready to go now, why wait? The early bird gathers no moss - rolling stone catches the worm, right?"
~Jim Carrey The Truman Show~

"I am walking on a bridge, I am over the water
and I'm scared as hell, 'cause I know there's something better...
I know there's something better, yes, i know...
And it's me who is my enemy
Me who beats me up
Me who makes the monsters
Me who strips my confidence
And it's me who's to weak, and it's me who's to shy
To ask for the thing I love...
But I love..."
~Paula Cole "Me"
(Inspired by John Mintz)

"I'll do anything you've ever dreamed to be complete... little pieces of the nothings that fall... put your arms around me... what you feel is what you are and what you are is beautiful..."
~Goo Goo Dolls "Slide"~

"Don't it make you sad to know that life is more than who we are?"
~Goo Goo Dolls "Name"~

"Strange how I falter
to find I'm standing in deep water
Strange how my heart beats
to find I'm standing on your shore
~Enya "On Your Shore"

"I do not regret the things I've done, but those I did not do."
~Lucas Empire Records~

"Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in awhile, you could miss it."
~Ferris Bueller's Day Off~

"So why would you care to get out of this place?
You and me and all our friends, such a happy human race.."
~Dave Matthews Band~

"These are the times to remember 'cause they will not last forever... these are the days to hold on to 'cause we won't although we want to."
~Billy Joel~

"I do believe that not everything is gonna be the way you think it ought to be... It seems like every time I try to make it right it all comes down on me... Please say honestly you won't give up on me... and I shall believe..."
~Sheryl Crow~

"You are in my blood like holy wine... you're so bitter and so sweet... I could drink a case of you and I would still be on my feet, I would still be on my feet."
~Joni Mitchell~

"I am on a lonely road and I am traveling... Looking for something, what can it be? I hate you some, I hate you some, I love you some... I love you when I forget about me. I want to be strong, I want to laugh along, I want to belong to the living....."
~Joni Mitchell~

"Or will I see you, dear, and wish I could come back?
You found a girl that you could truly love again
Will you still call for me when she falls asleep?
Or do we soon forget the things we cannot see?"
~Tori Amos~

"Sorry I put them words in your mouth, but you wouldn't talk to me."
~Goo Goo Dolls "Ain't That Unusual"~

"We've come a long, long way together
Through the hard times and the good
I have to celebrate you, baby
I have to praise you like I should....."
~Fatboy Slim~
(Inspired by the punk-esque Sarah)

Smart People

"Far away, there in the sunshine, are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them and try to follow them."
~Louisa May Alcott~

"Happiness is a butterfly, which, when persued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you sit down quietly, may alight upon you."
~Nathaniel Hawthorne~

"to be nobody but yourself- in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else- means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting."
~e. e. cummings~

"All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream."
~Edgar Allen Poe~

"Optimism is a mania for saying things are well when one is in hell."
~Voltaire~

"When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas that we conquered long ago."
~Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche~

"This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning."
~Winston Churchill~

"What would life be like if we had no courage to attempt anything?"
~Van Gogh~

"I expect to pass through this world but once.
Any good therefore that I can do
or any kindness that I can show for any fellow creature,
let me do it now.
Let me not defer or neglect it,
for I shall not pass this way again."
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

"Life is under no obligation to give us what we expect. We take what we get, and be thankful it is no worse than it is."
~Margaret Mitchell~

Misc.

I personally got a kick out of this one:
"Looked up the elevator shaft to see if the car was coming down. It was."
~Inscription on Harry Edsel Smith's gravestone~

"I didn't ask for it to be over, but then again, I never asked for it to begin. For that's the way it is with life, as some of the most beautiful days come completely by chance... but even the most beautiful days eventually have their sunsets."

Quotes from Jewel

Freedom

Having mutilated and freed myself from the very wings which for so long held me aloft I have cast my heart like a purpled fruit toward the violent earth, far from the Heaven of your arms

Pretty

There is a pretty girl on the Face of the magazine And all i can see are my dirty hands turning the page

"My hands are small I know, but they're not yours, they are my own, they're not yours, they are my own and I am never broken... In the end, only kindness matters..."
~"Hands"~

"The more I live, the more I know... what's simple is true, I love you."
~"What's Simple Is True"~

"When you're standing in deep water, and you're bailing yourself out with a straw... and when you're drowning in deep water, and you wake up making love to a wall... it's these little times that help to remind it's nothing without love."
~"Deep Water"~

"A blind man on the corner said it's simple - like flipping a coin... Don't matter what side it lands on if it's someone else's dime...

But I've been down so long, it can't be loner still... I've been down so long that the end must be drawing near."
~"Down So Long"~

"Lend our voices only to sounds of freedom. No longer lend yourself to that which we wish to be free from. Fill your lives with love and bravery and you shall lead a life uncommon."
~"Life Uncommon"~