Flirting is a habit for those who are single; it is their way of saying I am free.

Just remember: No matter who brings you down, I will bring you back up. Because that's just what friends do.

sometimes in order for something beautifully miraculous to happen, you have to make it through a terrible tragedy with hope for a better tomorrow.

I don't know if my heart can take this, but I really hope it can because every second with you makes it worth the risk.

It's those moments when you hang around in a room full of friends, where you gasp for breath between each laugh. It's those moments where you get high off just breathing in so deep, you feel your lungs getting cold. For a second, that split second, you don't care. you don't care about school, about parents, about money, about rules, or broken hearts. Who you care about are the kids sitting next to you. Coz it's all we really need, isn't it? Those kids next to you. Yeah, the ones who make you feel invincible, even at your weakest moments.

I don't care how far you are from me, or how long it's been since we talked. I don't care how mad I got at you, or how mad you've been at me, you're still what matters most to me and I'm never gonna give that up. I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.

I know what it does to you, I know. Maybe that’s why we hold on as hard as we do. We just can’t believe that such a miracle can happen to us twice. But it can, someday you’ll find it again.

What do you do when someone stops loving you? Well you cry a little and then you wait for the sun to come out. It always does.

There isn't another soul on this planet who has ever made me half the person I am when I'm with you, and I would risk this friendship for the chance to take it to the next plateau. Because it is there between you and me. You can't deny that. Even if, you know, even if we never talk again after tonight, please know that I'm forever changed because of who you are and what you've meant to me. -Chasing Amy

I want to learn to paint so I can paint for you. I want to learn to sing so I can sing for you. I want to learn to write songs so they can be about you. I want to hold art in my hand and control it just so I can create visual metaphors for your beauty.

Forget about all the reasons why something may not work. You only need one good reason why it will.

There are so many people out there who will tell you that you can't. What you've got to do is turn around and say, "Watch me."

I think apathy is the easiest trap to fall into. And I think the best thing a person can do to avoid it is to stay passionate. Because the times of utter misery are so worth it for the times of complete happiness. Never allow yourself to stop caring. Feeling too much is better than not feeling enough.

What I do know is I screw up, and I know that. I'm working on myself to be a better person. So I have no apologies. The best I can do is learn from my mistakes and move forward and that's what I'm trying to do.
-Shia LaBeouf

Anything worth having is worth fighting for. If you really want this thing to work, we gotta go to war.

If your wish doesn't come true, something better was meant for you.

We all get lost once in a while, sometimes by choice, sometimes due to forces beyond our control. When we learn what it is our soul needs to learn, the path presents itself. Sometimes we see the way out but wander further and deeper despite ourselves; the fear, the anger or the sadness preventing us returning. Sometimes we prefer to be lost and wandering, sometimes it's easier. Sometimes we find our own way out. But regardless, always, we are found.

Memories were fine but you couldn't touch them, smell them, or hold them. They were never exactly as the moment was, and they faded with time.

I believe in the magic of books. I believe that during certain periods in our lives we are drawn to particular books- whether it's strolling down the aisles of a bookshop with no idea whatsoever of what it is that we want to read and suddenly finding the most perfect, most wonderfully suitable book staring us right in the face. Unblinking. Or a chance meeting with a stranger or friend who recommends a book we would never ordinarily reach for. Books have the ability to find their own way into our lives.

I want to read books and drink hot chocolate. I want to go outside and lay in the grass. I want to lay naked against the warmth of my boyfriends body. I want to run in the rain. I want to never stop running in the rain. I want to laugh through the tears. I want to never, ever be without the people I'm with now. I want to meet new people. I want to wake up early and go to bed late. I want to spend all of my money, and work it all back. I'm going to go do all of those things now.

Well maybe I know somewhere deep in my soul that love never lasts and we've got to find other ways to make it alone. And up until now I swore to myself that I'm content with loneliness, because none of it was ever worth the risk. You are the only exception.

No lies, just love.

The bad news is, your choices and intentions, some people and places, those nights spent awake and all you’ve done, can lead you to the bottom of the pit. The good news is this wouldn’t be the first time someone’s crawled, tooth and nail, out of hell.

You had me. For the millionth time. You had me. I know I said I would never come back. I said I'd never do this again. But here I am again, laying on your bed. And I can't remember a thing I've ever said.

Character is doing the right thing when nobody’s looking. There are too many people who think that the only thing that’s right is to get by, and the only thing that’s wrong is to get caught. -J.C Watts

And love, just like blood, will always stain.

I made a lot of mistakes before I got to you (each one honest and none that I regret). The same way a tree bends in the wind and twists and turns, before it can touch the sky.

Strange how a single conversation can change you. Or maybe it only seems that way in retrospect. A year passes and you know you feel differently, but you’re not sure what or why or how, so your mind casts back for something that might give that difference shape: a word, a glance, a touch.

Life is worthwhile because of the people you meet.

If you desire love in your life, cultivate it yourself in your own dreams and desires, in the mark you want to make during your brief span here. In the lessons learned, in this smiles as much as the scars. Fill yourself up with love rather than waiting for someone to do it for you. -Little Miss Sunshine

A sense of humor is needed armor. Joy in one’s heart, and some laughter on one’s lips is a sign that the person--deep down--has a pretty good grasp on life. -Hugh Sidey


Don’t spend time beating on a wall hoping it transforms into a door. -Coco Chanel

Be loved, but never love. Attach, but never combine. Trip, but never fall. To be broken is better than shattered. Tell him of your strength, but not of your past. Be trustworthy, but never trust. Be cracked, but never open.

Make the most of yourself, that’s all there is of you. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

So..Maybe I don't have everything figured out, and I don't really know what the fuck I'm doing, and I have no clue where I'll end up. But maybe, just maybe...I have something good coming.

Everything in life is temporary, because everything changes. That's why it takes great courage to love, knowing it
might end anytime but having the faith it will last forever.

I'm one of those people who won't leave you in the dark. I'll stay there with you till you find your way.

It's not the end that matters, It's the places we go and the people we meet. It's how many times we smiled and laughed; how many times we fell in love and got hurt. How many times we got kissed in the rain. It's not seeing what happens after it ends but living long enough to see who's still by your side when it ends. It's the people and the memories you make that makes seing your life through worth it. It's the ride that gets us there.

Beauty isn't seen through make-up, clothing, brushes or hair products. Beauty is seen by those who choose not to
see imperfections and by those who you love and those who love you. Everyone is beautiful in their own way. Forget about the people who make your life miserable. Live for those who make you beautiful.

You don't always need a guy to make you happy. Sure, a kiss goodnight from your boyfriend is better than one from your mom, and a cute text for him makes you happier then one from your friend, but remember; when he breaks your heart, your mom and your best friend will still tell you they love you.

Loving you is the easiest thing I've ever done in my life.

You can listen to a song and learn the words, but, if you're lucky, you can listen to a song and know the story.

You can't upload love and you can't download time. You can't google all of life's answers. You must actually live some of your life.

If you’re feeling frightened about what comes next, don’t be. Embrace the uncertainty. Allow it to lead you places. Be brave as it challenges you to exercise both your heart and your mind as you create your own path towards happiness, don’t waste time with regret. Spin wildly into your next action. Enjoy the present, each moment, as it comes; because you’ll never get another one quite like it. And if you should ever look up and find yourself lost, simply take a breath and start over. Retrace your steps and go back to the purest place in your heart.. where your hope lives. You’ll find you’re way again.

Strange. But even when you know it has to end, when it finally does, you always get that inevitable twinge.. Have I done the right thing?

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring.

There are many things in your heart you can never tell to another person. They are you, your private joys and sorrows, and you can never tell them. You cheapen yourself, the inside of yourself, when you tell them.

Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.

I think people get into relationships for the wrong reasons. I think that people look to their partners to make themselves complete. They lean on people too much. They drain their partners of their energy. The only kind of relationships that work, and work forever, are the kind between two complete independent people. I think that too many relationships are about weird psychoses.

When I say I love you, I mean it with every bit of my body, with every hair on my skin, with every cell making me up, with every breath I take. When I say I love you, I mean I love you with every bad mood you’re in, every tear you shed, everything you don’t do but should, every white lie you tell people, with every sad story from your past, with every time you come late on a date, with every flaw you might have. When I say I love you, I mean I love you with every smile you put on my face, with every laugh you tickle out of me, with every kiss you give me, with every hug you wrap me into you, with every touch of you against my skin, with every falling asleep and waking up next to you. When I say I love you, I mean it with every fibre my body is made up of, with every molecule I consist of. When I say I love you, I mean it.

Tell me it won't always be this hard. I am nothing without you, but I don't know who you are.

See, you're a better person than I am, and it made me a better person to be around you. I don't know, maybe it was all just a dream. Maybe I woke up one lonely night in December and imagined it all. But I swear, nothing has ever felt so real. And if you get on that plane, I'll disappear forever. And I know we could both go on with our lives and we'd be fine. But I have seen what we could be together, and I choose us.

You can’t force love, I realized. It’s there or it isn’t. If it’s not there, you’ve got to be able to admit it. If it is there, you’ve got to do whatever it takes to protect the ones you love.

Regret comes in all shapes and sizes. Some are small, like when we do a bad thing for a good reason. Some are bigger, like when you let down a friend. Some of us escape the pain of regret by making the right choice. Some of us have little time for regret because we're looking forward to the future. Sometimes we have to fight to come to terms with the past, and sometimes we bury our regret by promising to change your own ways. But, our biggest regrets are not for the things we did - but, for the things we didn't do. Things we didn't say that could've saved someone that we care about. Especially when we can see the dark storm that's headed their way.

Make a wish and place it in your heart. Anything you want, everything you want. Do you have it? Good. Now believe it can come true. You never know where the next miracle is gonna come from.. the next smile, the next wish come true. But if you believe that it's right around the corner, and you open your heart and mind to the possibility of it, to the certainty of it.. you just might get the thing you're wishing for. The world is full of magic, you just have to believe in it. So make your wish. Do you have it? Good. Now believe in it, with all your heart.

We can know what love is. It’s adults who have forgotten, so they cling to their poor substitute and yell at kids who dare to live with real love. Pure love. Love without compromise or distraction. Hell, when you’re a kid you’ve got all the energy and all the free time in the world. You’ll never have the chance to devote more time to love ever again in your life.

I can't really offer you much. But I can offer you that empty spot of carpet right next to me. I can offer you late nights, of you and I sitting together. I can share with you my mind, and my words, and my music. And maybe it'll move you, like you move me.

I’m not always as confident as I seem. There are many nights and many days when all I want is to be held. I love being held. Always. Sometimes I don’t want to talk about what is bothering me. Sometimes I just want a hug. Someone who will let me cry. I like when boys cry in front of me - when people aren’t afraid to show what they’re really feeling. I don’t like when people run from their true feelings because it doesn’t do anyone any good. I wear my heart on my sleeve, but I am not naive. I know what it feels like to be completely broken and I am all too familiar with what it means to be hurt. I know what it’s like to see something funny and not laugh. I’ve been taken advantage of, used, and abused. My feelings have been blatantly disregarded. But I still believe that all people are good at heart. And my trust in people has not diminished. To be completely honest, I hope it never does. Ever.

Some people don't want to be saved. Because saving means changing and changing is always harder than staying the same. It takes courage to face yourself in the mirror and look beyond the reflection. To find the you that you should have been. The you who got derailed by cruel childhood events. Events that took your life's natural trajectory and twisted it. Changing it into something unimaginable or even incredible.

Why is it so hard to accept things as they are? Why do we struggle and fight against the inevitable? Is it the knowledge that things could be better? Or is it the hope? The hope that if things were different, we would be different. Better. Stronger. Complete.

Love is knowing you will spend every day, of every week, of every month, of every season, of every year for the rest of your life with this person, and thinking, “This is exactly what I want.”

No matter how powerful and real your feelings may be for someone, if that person cannot fully and honestly return them and therefore actively love you back, these feelings mean nothing. Being lonely, being alone, for many people, sucks. I get it, I get it, I get it. But still I have to say that yes, my belief is that being with somebody who makes you feel shitty or doesn’t honor the person you are is worse. Life is hard enough as it is without choosing someone difficult to share it with.You deserve to be with someone who is nice to you all the time.

I can’t help it. I can’t help caring. I’m forced. I’m too weak to restrain myself from you. I can’t help looking for you in a crowd. I can’t help thinking of you in the middle of night, day, or anytime at all. I can’t help wishing that you would love me. I can’t help waiting until the moment we talk again. I can’t help wanting to be more than just friends. I can’t help the way I love you..although I wish I could. Sometimes I just wonder why I love you the way I do; but I don’t have a reason. I just simply fell in love with you.

I know you are doubting yourself at the moment. I know you feel unsure and scared. I wish there was a way to make you understand you’ll get through this. I know you will. I believe in you.

People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that’s what everyone wants. But a true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that is holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life. A true soul mate is probably the most important person you’ll ever meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you awake. But to live with a soul mate forever? Nah. Too painful. Soul mates, they come into your life just to reveal another layer of yourself to you, and then leave. A soul mates purpose is to shake you up, tear apart your ego a little bit, show you your obstacles and addictions, break your heart open so new light can get in, make you so desperate and out of control that you have to transform your life.

By some mischief of fate, we might only fall in love once. You know, that one great love old folks refer to. Many lovers may get into our lives, but there is only one person with that one smile, one kiss, one hug and one moment, that our hearts will never replace. That person, usually but sadly, is the one that got away. That’s why, after all the chips are down, we know, just know, that we’ll never fall in love that way again.

Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative and creation, there is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favor all manner of unforeseen incidents, meetings and material assistance which no man could have dreamed would have come his way. Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now.

The best day of your life is the one on which you decide your life is your own. No apologies or excuses. No one to lean on, rely on, or blame. The gift is yours - it is an amazing journey - and you alone are responsible for the quality of it. This is the day your life really begins.

Somewhere, someone knows the words to the song that you sing.

When someone is in your heart, they’re never truly gone. They can come back to you, even at unlikely times.

The rain comes down , but when you're around you protect me with an umbrella of love, that makes me feel like I'm standing under the sun.

Love taught me I could have feelings that I never felt before. Losing taught me to hold onto something good if I find it. Living taught me to never regret anything because at that very moment, it seemed right.

You're gonna lose me, if you don't choose me.

Smile like you've got nothing to prove. No matter what you might do, there's always someone out there cooler than you. I know that's hard to believe but there are people you meet, they're into something that is too big to be. Expressed through their clothes and they'll put up with all the poses you'll throw. And you won't even know that they're not sizing you up. They know your mom fucked you up or maybe let you watch too much TV. But they'll still look in your eyes to find the human inside. You know there's always something in there to see beneath the veneer, not everybody made the list this year. Have a beer! Make me feel tiny if it makes you feel tall, but there's always someone cooler than you.

Things I've felt but I've never said. You said things that I never said. So I'll say something that I should have said long ago: you don't know me. You don't know me at all.

It's something I said or someone I know, or you called me up, maybe I wasn't home. Now everybody needs some time and everybody knows, the rest of it's fine and everybody knows that.

Well I was the first to have spoken and I said just about all the things you shouldn't say. So maybe you loved me, but now maybe you don't. And maybe you'll call me. Maybe you won't.

I met myself in a dream and I just wanna tell you - everything was alright. I'm beginning to see the light.

I think you're beautiful but I wouldn't fuck you because when we're done, I wouldn't want you to feel fucked. I would try to make love to you and I would probably be clumsy and awkward, but when it was over, I would want you to feel loved.

I'm here. I love you. I don't care if you need to stay up crying all night long. I will stay with you. There's nothing you can ever do to lose my love. I will protect you until you die and after your death, I will still protect you. I am stronger than depression and I am braver than loneliness and nothing will ever exhaust me.

For the record, I am a good guy and you've been hurt one too many times. So let's see how far we can take this. Off the record, I am a lonely guy and you have been hurt one too many times. So let's see how far we can take this tonight.

When you have reached the point where you no longer expect a response, you will at last be able to give in such a way that the other is able to receive and be grateful. When love has matured and through a dissolution of the self into light, become a radiance, then the lover will be liberated from dependence upon the beloved and the beloved also be made perfect by being liberated from the lover.

People love to drink their troubles away. Sometimes I feel that I'd be better off that way.

The way you make me feel is like smelling fresh grass or being in the back of a convertible under the stars. Or returning home from a long trip or just driving with no destination in the summer. It's like the feeling you get when you get an 'A' on your report card and your parents tell you how proud they are. Or when you hear your family laugh together or the whooshing of a tunnel when you drive with the windows down. It's like when you're outside on a hot summer day and you have a cold glass of water or when you talk to an old friend after a month or two, yet the two of you are still as close as ever.

It's like the feeling you get when you hear your favourite childhood song on the radio for the first time in years, you turn it up and feel so alive. Or lying in bed watching a snow storm, knowing you don't have to get up for hours and just lay in the warmth of your comfortors for hours. It's the way your stomach flip flops during your first kiss, or how your body feels when you take off in an airplane for the first time. Or when you drive around in the front seat of a car that belongs to the boy you like and even though you should feel scared beyond control because he's driving so fast and stupid, you feel safe and alive. Yeah, that feeling.

That way you make me feel, feels good to me.

When you're sitting on the side of the road crying over what feels like the end of the best god damn thing you ever had - well, at least you had it.

When I think more than I want to think, I do things I never should do. I drink much more than I ought to drink because it brings me back to you.

I've always known I'd be a bank robber. So judge all you want, ladies and gentlemen. Because you never did become an astronaut.

We can never really love anybody with whom we never laugh with.

Your first love. You know who I'm talking about, because I bet you read the words, "first love," and that one boy just came to mind. There's nothing like that first boy you were afraid to love. That one boy you knew it was love, despite what others said. That one boy who changed your expectations and that one boy who you compare all the future boys with. Because deep down inside, you knew he was the one. The one who set the standards for love.

You know how sometimes, like when someone dies, you're sad and it's okay to be sad but then there are other times when you're supposed to be happy but you're sad anyway and that's even worse than the times when you're allowed to be sad.

I like to take naps, because when you wake up, you forget all the crap going wrong in your life for a whole ten seconds.

What's different about us is that we're friends. Well, maybe we're not just friends. But the base of all we know is friendship. He may think I'm beautiful, but he'll still tease me about how he has to look down to see me. And we may cuddle up and watch movies, but we'll still laugh and make jokes about every line. We may hold hands, but we also get into fake fights that I know he lets me win every time. He gets mad when I don't think highly of myself, and I get mad when he won't tell me what's wrong. We know more about each other than anyone. And maybe that's the thing that makes it so perfect, that he's not just the friend or the lover, but he's the missing piece to my puzzle.

The say people come and go. But the truth is, no one really disappears from your life. People never really leave, their roles just change.

I've finally realized you're no good. There's a guy out there for me and you're not him. One day I'll find him but for now, the best for me is to let you go, and the best for you is to not lead me on. I've finally realized you're no good. There's a guy out there for me and you're not him. One day I'll find him but for now, the best for me is to let you go and the best for you is to not lead me on.

There are better things ahead than any we leave behind. -C.S. Lewis

If a man wants you, nothing can keep him away. If a man doesn't want you, nothing can make him stay. Stop making excuses for a man and his behavior. Allow your intuition, or spirit, to save you from heartache.

On the good days I feel like I get it, like it all makes sense. I can stay in the moment. I don't have to control everything in the future and I believe everything is gonna work out fine. On the bad days I just want to grab the phone and start dialing numbers. I want to pull my hair and run through the streets screaming. But thanks to the people I've met in these rooms, i'm pretty sure I'm gonna make it through today. -Traffic

Don’t be gentle. Love me, but not gently. I need to know that your desperation, your missing, has been as great as mine. I need to feel in the fervor of your touch that you have longed for this as much as I have. I need to feel how you’ve missed me.

One day we can complete all the things on our to-do list, like spend an entire day in bed together. One day when a new movies is about to hit the theaters, we can watch it the day it comes out. One day whenever you want to go somewhere, I can go with you if you like. One day when you get invited to a party or something, no worries, I can be your date. One day when you’re feeling hungry, I’ll be able to eat food with you. One day whenever you need me, I’ll be right on my way. One day we can just drive and go anywhere we want to. One day I’ll be able to kiss and hug you without worrying about our time being so limited.

There are no safe choices. Only other choices. -Libba Bray

Girls do not dress for boys. They dress for themselves, and of course, each other. If girls dressed for boys, they'd just walk around naked at all times. -Betsey Johnson

I do not want just a piece of you and a piece of your life. Even if you were able, which you are not, to give me the biggest piece, that is not what I want. I want all of you and every part of you and your day.

Relationships are never easy.  Some days you're going to wake up and that love you know you have for the person in the bed next to you, isn't going to come so naturally.  We always say "no one told us it was going to be this hard" but they do.  We choose not to listen, because it seems so unreasonable that one day you will be able to keep your hands off of eachother.  One day you will spend your free time, away from each other.  The only way you can make a relationship last is if you work at it everyday and never give up on it.  Because if you take time to fight and argue and still can't imagine leaving them, then you love them. And that's the kind of love that's forever.

It was like she was only there when it was convenient for him. Like she was the gas station no one ever visited unless their tank was coming up on empty. Yeah, there were days when she hated him and there were days when she was head over heels, too. But none of those days mattered, because she could never have him no matter how hard she fell.

it’s sad, really. people rust. they evaporate. they slowly erase. and we wonder what happened. was it our fault or theirs? did we neglect the friendship or did they no longer need what we had to give? the boys, the girls. one day their names will begin with, “you know, whats her name.” it’s tough when you realize that the nature of relationships is constantly evolving, despite every attempt you make to make it last. to live in love. to freeze people in memory. the rest of my life will be a continuous series of beginnings. of handshakes and text avoidance. someone freeze me.— christopher gutierrez

we all die. the goal isn't to live forever, it is to create something that will.

Because without the people you love most, you can’t help but feel all alone in the world. -gossip girl

 I'm not sure what to do about you. The feeling has never stopped. I've always wanted to be with you, and I've always had a thing for you. It fades in and out but never really goes away. I can sit in a room and stare at you, and enjoy myself. We talk, but really, you don't have to say anything at all. I've always thought it would all just fall into place at the right time. I don't understand you. Yet, being with you just makes sense to me.

Life is the ability to feel so happy, you think your insides are going to explode. It's being so upset or disappointed, you feel as if your stomach just dropped ten feet out of place. It's running so hard, you can barely breathe. It's the feeling of panic when you know you've been caught doing something wrong. It's having that sudden rush before you kiss someone you care about. It's opening your eyes and feeling them sting because you spent the whole night crying. It's letting people go because new ones come in, and all the while realizing that life doesn't have a purpose unless you let it.

Maybe it’s true what they say. There are those people you encounter in life who you never really get over. No matter how many other better people you meet, people who treat you better and love you better, in the back of your mind there is always that person you can’t quite completely forget.

You only love him because you fear he's the only one that will ever love you.

Start living now. Stop saving the good china for that special occasion. Stop withholding your love until that special person materializes. Every day you are alive is a special occasion. Every minute, every breath, is a gift from God.

Don’t hurry, don’t worry. You’re only here for a short visit. So be sure to stop and smell the flowers.

Never think that God’s delays are God’s denials. Hold on; hold fast; hold out. Patience is genius.

Just because it's not happening for you right now doesn't mean that it will never happen. It means you're not ready for it yet.

People say that when we grow up, we kick at everything we've been told, we rebel against the world our parents worked so hard to bring us into, that part of growing up is kicking at the ties that bind. But I don't think thats why we kick at all. I think we kick when we find out that our parents don't know much more about the world than we do. They don't have all the answers. We rebel when we find out that they've been lying to us all along, that there isn't any Santa Claus at all.

And it's hard to be a human being and it's harder as anything else.

And if the people stare, then the people stare. Oh, I really don't know and I really don't care.

I believe in love, I believe people make mistakes. I believe people are selfish and generous at the same time.

In the end, some of your greatest pains become your greatest strengths.

If you say that you always want what you can't have that means that you don't try hard enough to get what you truly need.

But through it all, I never understood the point of being sad when I could choose to be happy. I'm too young to feel this old.

You can't dwell on what might have been and it's not fair to condemn him for something he hasn't done.

Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.

Imagine if you suddenly learned that the people, the places, the moments most important to you were not gone, not dead, but worse, had never been. What kind of hell would that be?

I've spent so much time trying to fix your life that I forgot about mine. This time I'm putting my foot straight through the floor. You won't be walking through any of my doors anymore.

Some people feel like they don't deserve love. They walk away quietly into empty spaces, trying to close the gaps of the past.

They must think, "what is worse: not being loved or not loving anything at all?" Wake up! I hope you ignite what thrives inside. Break through. You've got to find a way to feel alive.

When you look back now, was it special? Or was it nothing but anecdote that you can tell now and then. I delude myself it was worth it. Even though from the beginning, I could see exactly how it would end. That there'd be torn up photos and lonely nights, cursing, crying and drawn out fights. Make up sex and a brand new start. Broken promises for broken hearts.

When you have reached the point where you no longer expect a response, you will at last be able to give in such a way that the other side is able to receive and be grateful. When love has matured and, through a dissolution of the self into light, become a radiance, then the lover will be liberated from the dependence upon the beloved, and the beloved also be made perfect by being liberated from the lover.

You are often disappointed by the realities of life: the shortcomings of others or yourself. Somehow you don't want to accept the imperfections of the world, a feeling that drives you constantly to try improve upon it. But, rather than be satisfied with your efforts, and those of others, you relentlessly push on, striving for greater accomplishments. You are often unsatisfied with the results. In short, you lack the perspective that would otherwise make it possible for you to enjoy life more fully and to accept it as natural limitations.

I've gotta say something, cause I don't think I've made it clear. I'm in love with you. Powerfully, painfully in love. The things you do, the way you think, the way you move… I get excited every time I'm about to see you. You make me feel like I've never felt before in my life. I just thought you might want to know.

If I should die this very moment, I wouldn’t fear, for I’ve never known completeness like being here, wrapped in the warmth of you, loving every breath of you.

She's never been one to wait around, she's always moving and dancing.  But for some reason, with that boy, she's oh so patient, she'll wait.  She'll wait for no one and nothing except for him and only him.

The hardest kind of depression to treat is the one you can't see.  They're the smiling ones, the ones who look perfect, the ones who are laughing, the ones who are dying inside, the ones who seem perfectly happy.  Those are the ones who need help the most, because you can't tell when they're sad.

I don't know if you felt that or not. But it felt like two people kissing after hours of thinking about it. It felt like two people talking after nights of silence. It felt like two people touching after weeks of being numb. It felt like two people facing each other after months of looking away. It felt like two people in love after years of being alone. And it felt like two people meeting each other, after an entire lifetime of not meeting each other.

I guess when you're young, you just believe there'll be many people with whom you'll connect with. Later in life, you realize it only happens a few times. -Before Sunset

The only reason we hold back is because we think we have an endless amount of chances or that there will always be one more. But as time disappears into the past and life goes on, those chances will run out and you'll either live with eternal happiness for being brave, or eternal regret for holding back.

Treat people as you would like to be treated. Karma's only a bitch if you are.

It's not about the big things. The great gestures, the public displays of affection. It's all the small things, pieced together one by one. Like a puzzle, it's no fun unless the pieces are small and the challenge is high. The little things in life are what makes life worth living. Making memories, one step at a time.

I think when you are young, you are hoping that this person will be the right one, the one you are going to be in love with forever. But sometimes you want that so much you create something that isn't really there.
-Johnny Depp

If I were her, I'd love you back. -Postsecret

Listen, the truth is, nothing is guaranteed, so don't be afraid, be alive. -The Truth About Forever by Sarah Dessen

The expected is what we live for. The unexpected is what changes our lives.

No matter where life takes us to, I will always be here for you. And no matter how many fights we have, I will always have your back. And no matter what people say, our friendship is here to stay.

You constantly look for a sign and when it's given to you and you don't like the answer, you call it a coincidence. There are no coincidences.

All I've got left to say is everything I've been dying to say; never let love get away.

I heard what you said. I'm not the silly romantic you think. I don't want the heavens or the shooting stars. I don't want gemstones or gold. I have those things already. I want... a steady hand. A kind soul. I want to fall asleep, and wake, knowing my heart is safe. I want to love, and be loved.

Stories are, in one way or another, mirrors. We use them to explain to ourselves how the world works or how it doesn't work. Like mirrors, stories prepare us for the day to come. They distract us from the things in the darkness.

Sometimes we need to stop analyzing the past, stop planning the future, stop figuring out precisely how we feel, stop deciding exactly what we want, and just see what happens.

You're going to come across people in your life who will say all the right words at all the right times, but in the end, it's always their actions you should judge them by. It's action, not words, that matter.

There were reasons we met, reasons for the good times and reasons for the bad times, and most importantly, reasons to end.
We have more to learn, more to experience and more loving to do in this lifetime.

I never thought I’d hear myself saying this, but thank you. Because if you hadn’t of come along, I never would have learned that my worst day could also have been my best. Because when a heart breaks, it also opens; and once a heart opens any number of things can happen, and some of them can be wonderful.

I'm dying for a place in your heart.

Be thankful for every heartbreak, for they were planned. They come into your life just to reveal another layer of yourself to you, and then leave. Their purpose is to shake you up, tear apart your ego a little bit, show you your obstacles and addictions, break your heart open so new light can get in, make you so desperate and out of control that you have to transform your life. And you do.