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| I wish her insight to battle love's blindness Strength from the milk of human kindness A safe place for all the pieces that scattered Learn to pretend there's more than love that matters 
What you do, how you dress, the way you love someone and how you talk. Your smile and your personality. What you believe in and all your dreams. The way you drink your tea, how you decorate your home or party. Your grocery list, the food you make, how your writing looks, and the way you feel.
Life is art. Nothing compares, no worries or cares. Regrets and mistakes they're memories made. Who would have known how bittersweet this would taste.  "All the books we own, both read and unread, are the fullest expression of self we have at our disposal. ... But with each passing year, and with each whimsical purchase, our libraries become more and more able to articulate who we are, whether we read the books or not." -Nick Hornby  Aspire to be that girl you've always known. Let her out. Speak your mind. And allow all your true colors to shine.  I don't understand the numbers ,but my faith is in the math And come someday these twisted ties will tangle and we'll look back and laugh And to all the hearts I've broken and the ones that once broke mine I've got suspicions, all will be forgiven in time Gonna look you in the eye and say this will all make perfect sense someday There's got to be a reason for the rain -John Mayer  Don't ask for guarantees. And don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were heading for shore.
--Ray Bradbury
 "I love the relationship that anyone has with music...because there's something in us that is beyond the reach of words, something that eludes and defies our best attempts to spit it out...It's the best part of us probably..." -Nick Hornby  In these bodies we will live, in these bodies we will die Where you invest your love, you invest your life  And there will come a time, you'll see, with no more tears. And love will not break your heart, but dismiss your fears. Get over your hill and see what you find there, With grace in your heart and flowers in your hair.  Next time I'll be braver, I'll be my own savior When the thunder calls for me Next time I'll be braver, I'll be my own savior Stand on my own two feet. Maybe a happy ending doesn't include a guy, maybe it's you, on your own, picking up the pieces and starting over, freeing yourself up for something better in the future. Maybe the happy ending is just moving on. Or maybe the happy ending is this: knowing after all the unreturned phone calls, broken hearts, through the blunders and misread signals, through all the pain and embarrassment, you never gave up hope.
- He's Just Not That Into You
I say love will come to you
Hoping just because I spoke the words that they're true
As if I offered up a crystal ball to look through
Where there's now one there will be two
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| Wired and I'm tired, think I'll sleep in my clothes on the floor
Maybe this mattress will spin on its axis and find me on yours.  Life goes on before and after you. I've got some growing up to do.
Amongst the vending machines and year-old magazines In a place where we only say goodbye It stung like a violent wind that our memories depend On a faulty camera in our minds But I knew that you were a truth I would rather lose than to have never lain beside at all.  Am I loud and clear, or am I breaking up? Am I still your charm, or am I just bad luck? Are we getting closer, or are we just getting more lost? I'll show you mine if you show me yours first Let's compare scars, I'll tell you whose is worse Let's unwrite these pages and replace them with our own words  'Cause there's no comfort in the waiting room Just nervous paces bracing for bad news Then the nurse comes around and everyone lifts their head But I'm thinking of what Sarah said That love is watching someone die So who's going to watch you die? Say the world, it doesn't fit with you. I don't believe you, you're so serene. Careening through the universe, your axis on a tilt, you're guiltless and free. I hope you take a piece of me with you. Your past is just a story, and once you realize this, it has no power over you.
Love is like driving a car at night. You never see
further than your headlights, but you can
make the whole trip that way. Your past is just a story, and once you realize this, it has no power over you.  All my life I'd spent way too much time trying to make things work. I'd make way too much effort on things that wouldn't be worth it and would be burning myself in the end. I finally realized that I can't control everything. And as soon as I let faith step in, I got you.  Load the car and write the note. Grab your bag and grab your coat.
Tell the ones that need to know. We are headed north. One foot in and one foot back.
But it don’t pay to live like that, so I cut the ties and I jumped the track for never to return.
Ahh Brooklyn, Brooklyn take me in.
Are you aware the shape I’m in?
My hands they shake, my head it spins.
Ahh Brooklyn, Brooklyn take me in. 
The saddest part is you could be anything you could want.
We could've been anything, but now we're not.
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| I'd rather help than watch. I'd rather have a heart than a mind. I'd rather expose too much than too little. I'd rather say hello to strangers than be afraid of them. I would rather know all this about myself than have more money than I need. I'd rather have something to love than a way to impress you. -Po Bronson
I believe in sleeping in. I believe in giving 100% when you only have 80%. I believe in jamming out by yourself in the car. I believe in kisses on the forehead. I believe in smiling until your cheeks hurt. I believe that you can have just as much fun sober. I believe in taking chances and making mistakes. I believe in having someone tell you that you’re beautiful. I believe in swinging on swings and running in the rain. I believe in miracles and random acts of kindness. I believe in saying hello to anyone and everyone. I believe in second chances. I believe that everyone’s lucky to be alive.
God help you if you are an ugly girl,
of course too pretty is also your doom
'Cause everyone harbors a secret hatred
for the prettiest girl in the room
and God help you if you are a pheonix
and you dare to rise up from the ash
a thousand eyes will smolder with jealousy
while you are just flying past.
I took my last drink from a half empty glass and laid my tired bones out on the grass. My dad says that all things will pass. Well, at least he was right about love.
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| This year I resolve: 
To be a phoenix. To rise up from my ashes into something beautiful. 
To come into another's life by accident, and stay on purpose. 
To forgive but not forget. 
To know this world as a beautiful place. 
To be myself and not give a damn. 
To go somewhere beautiful. 
To make 2011 the best year yet. 
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| As we grow up, we learn that even the person who wasn't supposed to ever let you down probably will. You will have your heart broken more than once and it gets harder every time. You will fight with your best friends. You will blame a new love for things an old one did. You will cry because time is passing too fast. And eventually, you will lose someone you love.
 Be loved, but never love. Attach but never combine. Trip but never fall. To be broken is better then being shattered. Tell him of your strength but never of your past. Be trustworthy but never trust.
Be cracked, but never open.
 I can survive alone again.
Figured that out the hardest way.
The forecast calls for fire.
Flames sound nice today. 
Whatever you do in life will be insignificant, but it's very important that you do it. Because nobody else will. Like when someone comes into your life and half of you says you're nowhere near ready, but the other half says: make her yours forever. -Remember Me  Your handwriting. The way you walk. Which china pattern you choose. It's all giving you away. Everything you do shows your hand. Everything is a self-portrait. Everything is a diary.  I shall pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do or any kindness that I may show let me do it now. Let me not defer nor neglect it for I shall not pass this way again. -William Penn  Do not pray for easy lives.Pray to be stronger men. -John F. Kennedy  "Sometimes, when we lose ourselves in fear and despair, in routine and constancy, in hopelessness and tragedy, we can thank God for Bavarian sugar cookies. And, fortunately, when there aren't any cookies, we can still find reassurance in a familiar hand on our skin, or a kind and loving gesture, or subtle encouragement, or a loving embrace, or an offer of comfort, not to mention hospital gurneys and nose plugs, an uneaten Danish, soft-spoken secrets, and Fender Stratocasters, and maybe the occasional piece of fiction." - Stranger Than Fiction  Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future. -John F. Kennedy  "You're in a car with a beautiful boy, and he won't tell you that he loves you, but he loves you. And you feel like you've done something terrible, like robbed a liquor store, or swallowed pills, or shoveled yourself a grave in the dirt, and you're tired. You're in a car with a beautiful boy, and you're trying not to tell him that you love him, and you're trying to choke down the feeling, and you're trembling, but he reaches over and he touches you, like a prayer for which no words exist, and you feel your heart taking root in your body, like you've discovered something you didn't even have a name for." --Richard Siken | | |
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