"what good will it be for a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul?"

~ matthew 16:26

"What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing... "

~Oscar Wilde

Within you, I lose myself;

Without you, I find myself,

searching to be lost again

~Unknown

If tears could build a stairway,

and memories were a lane,

I would walk right up to heaven

to bring you home again.

No farewell words were spoken

no time to say goodbye

you were gone before I knew it,

and only God knows why.

My heart still aches in sadness

and secret tears still flow,

what it meant to lose you,

no one will ever know.

~Unknown

Life's not a garden so don't be a hoe.

~Tasha

The greatest gift I could ever give

you would be to see yourself through

my eyes.

~Kadry

If you live in the past,

the present will become it,

and the future will never change.

~Andrew B.

If you find someone you love hold on to

theme as long as you can. The love of

your life only comes around once in a

lifetime. If that someone doesn't know

than tell them because you never know

when you'll be too late. And if that

some you love doesn't love you back

than it was never really love at all.

And if you think love will never find

you than you're wrong, love finds

everyone. Don't look for love because

it will come to you when you least

expect it.

~Anonymous

The worst way to miss someone is

to have them sitting right next to

you and know that you can never have them.

~Anonymous

Sometimes I wish I had never met you

because then I could go to sleep at

night not knowing there was someone

like you out there.

~Anonymous

Letting go does not mean giving up,

but accepting that there are things that

cannot be.

~Anonymous

Its when you snag your hand on a rusty

nail that you realize....life sux!

But regardless of the pain....

you wont bleed forever.

~Randi Jo Gleason

Love is like a rose,

if you don't care for it,

the rose will die,

and if you care for it,

the rose will grow.

~Rebecca Kelley

The moment may be temporary but the memory is

forever. ~Bud Meyer

Just when you graduated from the school of

experience, someone thinks up a new course.

~Mary H. Waldrip

Human skulls had been used as drinking cups for hundreds of years. The muscles and flesh were scraped away, the bottom was hacked off and then they were suitable to hold any beverage. Sort of gives a whole new meaning to using your head.

~unknown

Life is anything that dies when you stomp on it.

~unknown

Life is biology. Biology is really chemistry. Chemistry is really physics. Physics is really math, and math is really hard

~unknown

Life is tough. And then you die. O_O

~unknown

Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

~unknown

Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective.

~unknown

Be nice to your kids, they'll choose your nursing home.

~unkown

It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.

~Alfred Adler

"Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence." - ~John Adams

When you blame others, you give up your power to change.

~Dr. Robert Anthony

Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.

~Aristotle

"Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them."

~ Dion Boucicault

Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.

~Erma Bombeck

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

~G. K. Chesterton

What do you despise? By this are you truly known.

~ Frank Herbert (Dune)

Sticks and stones may break your bones when there's anger to inpart.

Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart.

~ Anonymous

Common sense is the most uncommon thing in the world.

~ Anonymous

If you love something, set it free.

If it returns, it's yours forever.

If it doesn't, it wasn't yours to begin with.

~unknown

Faith isn't faith until it's all you're holding on to.

~ Unknown

The better you know someone, the less there is to say. Or maybe, there's less that needs to be said.

~ Unknown

All that we are not stares back at what we are.

~ Auden

Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things - I am tempted to think there are no little things.

~Bruce Barton

Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

~Thomas Bayly

"Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have."

~Louis E. Boone

Shoot for the Heavens. Even if you miss it you will land among the stars.

~ Les Brown

Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.

~ William Cowper

There is nothing wrong with a woman welcoming all men's advances as long as they are in cash.

~Zsa Zsa Gabor

Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.

~ Jules de Gaultier

``I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it' ~Evelyn Beatrice Hall

Success is not measured by what a man accomplishes, but by the opposition he has encountered, and the courage with which he maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.

~Charles A. Lindbergh

"It's easy to tell when a politician is lying. Watch his lips. If they move, he's lying."

~ Charles Lyall

"You risked your life, but what else have you ever risked? Have you ever risked disapproval? Have you ever risked a belief? I see nothing particularly courageous in risking one's life. So you lose it, you go to your hero's heaven and everything is milk and honey 'til the end of time, right? You get your reward and suffer no earthly consequences. That's not courage. Real courage is risking somthing that you have to keep on living with, real courage is risking something that might force you to rethink your thoughts and suffer change and stretch consciousness. Real courage is risking one's cliches."

~ Tom Robbins

Fear may be the first serious enemy you have to face in our society. It is the most destructive emotional boogeyman there is. Cold feet, panic, depression and violence are all symptoms of fear - when it's out of control. But this feeling, ironically, can also trigger courage, alertness, objectivity. You must learn not to try and rid yourself of this basic human emotion, but to manipulate it for your own advantage. You cannot surrender to fear, but you can use it as a kind of fuel. Once you learn to control fear - to make it work for you - it will become one of your best friends.

~Jose Torres

To the world, you may only be one person, but to one person, you may be the world.

~Anon

When you hold somebody, hold them like it's the last time you're gonna see 'em.

~unknown

If I could give you but one gift, my friend, it would be the gift to see yourself as others see you. Then, you would realize how truly special you are.

~unknown

I knew when looking back on the times we cried, I would laugh, but I never thought when looking back on the times we laughed, I would cry.

~unknown

"If letting go wasn't so hard, it wouldn't be so rewarding in the end."

~Dawson Leery, Dawson's Creek

All those memories lost in time, like teardrops in the rain.

~Blade Runner

I don't know. It just seems like you agree to have a certain personality or something, for no reason, or maybe to make things easier for other people. But, when you think about it, maybe that's not you.

~Angela, My So-Called Life

Don't it make you sad to know that life, is more than who we are.

~Goo Goo Dolls, "Name"

Neo: I know you're out there. I can feel you now. I know that you're afraid... afraid of us. You're afraid of change. I don't know the future. I didn't come here to tell you how this is going to end. I came here to tell how it's going to begin. I'm going to hang up this phone, and then show these people what you don't want them to see. I'm going to show them a world without you. A world without rules or controls, borders or boundaries. A world where anything is possible. Where we go from there is a choice I leave to you

~The Matrix

Keziah: No thanks, I'm a fruitarian.

Max: I didn't realize that.

William: And, ahm: what exactly is a fruitarian?

Keziah: We believe that fruits and vegetables have feeling so we think cooking is cruel. We only eat things that have actually fallen off a tree or bush - that are, in fact, dead already.

William: Right. Right. Interesting stuff. So, these carrots...

Keziah: Have been murdered, yes.

~Notting Hill

Ichabod Crane: Villiany wears many masks, none of which are more dangerous than virtue.

~Sleepy Hollow

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear."

~Ambrose Redmoon

"Whatever tomorrow brings I'll be there

With open arms and open eyes, yeah"

- Incubus, "Drive"

"Adam and Eve live down the street from me

Babylon is every town

Life's as crazy as it's ever been

Love's a stranger all around"

~Live "Run To The Water"

"Once someone touches your heart their fingerprints are there forever."

~Unknown

Odd how much it hurts when a friend moves away - and leaves behind only silence."

~ Pam Brown

We are not really virgins because life screws us all."

~Unknown

Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for a while and leave footprints on our hearts. And we are never, ever the same."

~ Unknown

Magic's in the makeup. But I want to be the real thing. "

~No Doubt, "Magic's In The Makeup

"He says all the right things at all the right time. But he means nothing to you, and you dont know why. "

~Vertical Horizon, "Everything You Want"

"Life is hard; it's harder if you're stupid."

~ John Wayne

"...again you search for what had gone wrong, realising only after too long that it was not your fault. it was nobody's fault actually. sometimes, feelings are gone. you finally are able to put the past behind you and forget, but sudden flashbacks and chanced-meetings reignite the dead flames and you wonder and you worry. your heart is willing but your mind says no.

and you follow your heart... "

~unknown

"..and I don't want the world to see me...

'cuz I don't think they'd understand..

When everything's made to be broken..

I just want you to know who I am..

~Goo Goo Dolls

Spend all your time waiting for that second chance

For the break that will make it okay

There's always some reason to feel not good enough

And it's hard at the end of the day

I need some distraction or a beautiful release

Memories seep from my veins

Let me be empty and weightless and maybe

I'll find some peace tonight

~Sarah Mclachlan, angel

"It's true that we don't know what we've got until we lose it, but it's also true that we don't know what we've been missing until it arrives."

~unknown

"True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost."

- Charles Caleb Colton

"Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born."

- Anais Nin

"A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out"

A friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else."

- Len Wein

"A friend is one who believes in you when you have ceased to believe in yourself."

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

- Francois Mocuriac

The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward. Is not friendship divine in this?"

- Henry David Thoreau

"Friendship that flows from the heart cannot be frozen by adversity, as the water that flows from the spring cannogt congeal in winter."

- James Fenimore Cooper

"Friendship without self interest is one of the rare and beautiful things in life."

- James Francis Byrnes

Never kiss a friend. If you have deeper feelings, never reveal them. You will lose that friend forever..."

"Do not save your loving speeches

For your friends till they are dead;

Do not write them on their tombstones,

Speak them rather now instead.

- Anna Cummins

"A good friend is hard to find, hard to lose, and impossible to forget..."

"Time isn't what makes a friendship last...It's love and devotion that keeps the tie between souls."

"I'd like to be the sort of friend that you have been to me. I'd like to be the help that you've been always 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

"How lucky I am to have known someone who was so hard to say goodbye to."

"I don't remember how we happened to meet each other. I don't remember who got along with whom first. All I can remember is all of us together...always.

"A friend is someone who reaches for your hand, but touches your heart."

- Kathleen Grove

"To the world you are someone, but to someone you are the world."

"We laughed

until we had to cry.

We gave love,

right down to our last goodbye.

We were the best

we thought we'd ever be

Just you and me,

for just a moment...

"If we were leaving in a world where to say i love you would make more sense, i would always say you i love you"

-Ozge Dilsiz

"In loneliness, in sickness, in confusion-the mere knowledge of friendship makes it possible to endure, even if the friend is powerless to help. It is enough that they exist. Friendship is not diminished by distance or time, by imprisonment or war, by suffering or silence. It is in these things that it roots most deeply. It is from these things that it flowers." -Pam Brown

If I'm in heaven and your not there

I'd carve your name in golden chairs

for all the angels there to see

that I love you and you love me.

If your not there on judgement day,

I'll know you've gone the other way

so just to prove our love is true,

I'd go to hell to be with you.

-Jackie Paul

"It's really amazing when two strangers become the best of friends, but its really sad when the best of friends become two strangers."

"There are the people you have known forever. Who like..... Know you... in this way that other people can't. Because they've seen you change. They've let you change."

-"My so called life"

"Don't expect someone's love to grown in their hearts. If it doesn't, just be happy in gre in yours."

"True friends not only protect you from others when something goes bad, but from yourself when you try to take blame."

"A true friend wants nothing more from you than the pleasure of your company."

A true friend thinks of you when all others are thinking of themselves."

"If I could reach up and hold a star for every time I think about you, the entire evening sky would be in the palm of my hand."

"Even if we don't all end up together...it will be alirght...because we have years of memories to look back on"

A true friend will go to hell for you. An enemy will certainly try to send you there."

"The trick is not to die for a friend, but to find a friend worth dying for."

"Until you find someone worth dying for, you never really live."

Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling into at night. I miss you like hell."--Edna St. Vincent Millay

"I need you. I don't know why but every now and then in my life, for no reason at all, I need you."

Every man is afraid of something. That's how you know he loves you, when he is afraid of losing you."

"If I had never met you, I wouldn't like you. If I didn't like you, I wouldn't love you. If I didn't love you, I wouldn't miss you. But I did, I do and I will."

Sometimes you just have to turn your back and walk away....Whether you walking out on your friends, your family, or the love of your life...Sometimes walking away is the hardest thing to do but the best thing in the end......."

-Tine MacFarlane "When I'm with you I feel like I could die and that would be all right, alright."

- Third Eye Blind

"I think about you all the time, but I don't need to think".

- Goo goo Dolls

"We've gone our own ways and I know its for the best, but sometimes I wonder will I ever have a friend like you again?"

-Blink 182

"I pull you from your tower, take away your pain, show you all the beauty you posess if you'd only let yourself believe"

-Sarah Mclachlan

"Friendship is delicate as a glass, once broken it can be fixed but there will always be cracks"

"And I'm still here, waiting here, to catch you if you fall. I don't know why I care so much when I shouldn't care at all."

"I guess that it's you I want to hold on to, but you're holding onto someone else."

"Your friends are what will matter in the end."

"If only you could see the you that is a part of me, maybe you could see inside yourself."

"I shed a tear in the ocean. The day I find it is the day I stop loving you."

"It's not that I can't live without you, it's just that I don't want to try."

"It's better to love someone you can't have than to have someone you can't love."

"Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done." -Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife is dying