“That’s the thing about the heart. It gets stronger the more you use it.”  

  -Stop living your life like you’re in some kind of movie. -Excuse me? -Stop trying to cast your true love instead ofjust meeting him. – When I meet him, I’ll know. – I’m not so sure. -Love isn’t always a lightning bolt, you know? Maybe sometimes it’s just a choice. -Well, that’s easy for [...]

  The only way to be happy is to love. Unless you love, your life will flash by.

                                                                                                                                                   A man’s heart has heard two ways through life. The way of nature. And the way of grace. You have to choose which one you’ll follow. Grace doesn’t try to please itself. It accepts being slighted, forgotten, disliked… It accepts insults and injuries. Nature only wants to please itself. Get others to please it [...]

  Sometimes we love people so much that we have to be numb to it. Because if we actually felt how much we love them, it would kill us. That doesn’t make you a bad person. It just means your heart’s too big.  

  “‎People will tell you nothing matters, the whole world is about to end soon anyway. But those people are looking at life the wrong way. I mean, things don’t need to last forever to be perfect.”

  “l don’t have any friends.” “This is very tough thing to learn.”                                                                                ( It’s Kind of a Funny Story )

  “Live the life you’ve dreamed” David Henry Thoreau

   “A human being is a part of a whole, called by us <universe>, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest… a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our [...]

  “Poets represent love as sculptors design beauty, as musicians create melody; that is to say, endowed with an exquisite nervous organization, they gather up with discerning ardor the purest elements of life, the most beautiful lines of matter, and the most harmonious voices of nature. There lived, it is said, at Athens a great [...]

  I envy not in any moods The captive void of noble rage, The linnet born within the cage, That never knew the summer woods; I envy not the beast that takes His license in the field of time, Unfetter’d by the sense of crime, To whom a conscience never wakes; Nor, what may count [...]

  Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth; oh nevermind; you will not understand the power and beauty of your youth until they have faded. But trust me, in 20 years you’ll look back at photos of yourself and recall in a way you can’t grasp now how much possibility lay before you and [...]

                                                                                                            It little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Match’d with an aged wife, I mete and dole Unequal laws unto a savage race, That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me. I cannot rest from travel: I will drink Life to the lees: all times [...]

  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.”

  There is a pleasure in the pathless woods; There is a rapture on the lonely shore; There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its eoar: I love not man the less, but Nature more…

  From the bits and pieces I put together, you know, from what you told me about your family, your mother and your dad. And I know you’ve got your problems with the church, too. But there’s some kind of bigger thing we can all appreciate, and it sounds like you don’t mind calling it [...]

  Chris had always been driven, had always been an adventurer. When he was four years old, he once wandered six blocks away from home at 3:00 in the morning. He was found in a neighbor’s kitchen up on a chair, digging through their candy drawer. Whatever drawer he was opening now must have something [...]

  The sea’s only gifts are harsh blows, and, occasionally, the chance to feel strong. Now, I don’t know much about the sea, but I do know that that’s the way it is here. And I also know how important it is in life not necessarily to be strong, but to feel strong, to measure [...]

  I see them standing at the formal gates of their colleges. I see my father strolling out under the ochre sandstone arch, the red tiles glinting like bent plates of blood behind his head. I see my mother with a few light books at her hip, standing at the pillar made of tiny bricks [...]

  remember me when you are at the beach and above all when you paint crackling things and little ashes. oh my little ashes! put my name in hte picture so that my name will serve for something in the world.

  Gandhi said that whatever you do in Life will be insignificant, but it’s very important that you do it. I tend to agree with the first part. Michael, you know what day I’m staring at. By 22, Gandhi had three kids, Mozart, 30 symphonies, and Buddy Holly was dead. You once told me, “Our [...]

  Hey, Michael, remember that Greek myth you read to me about the god who banished all his children to the underworld, and how his youngest son, to get even, castrated him with a sickle? It’s a IittIe excessive, maybe, but I get it.

  I think I could really fall in love when I know everything about someone. The way he’s gonna part his hair. Which shirt he’s gonna wear that day. Knowing the exact story he’d tell in a given situation. I’m sure that’s when I’d know I’m really in love.

  So often in my life I’ve been with people, and shared beautiful moments like travelling, or staying up all night and watching the sunrise, and I knew those were special moments. But something was always wrong. I wished I’d been with someone else. I knew that what I was feeling, exactly what was so [...]

  I kind of see this all love as this escape for two people who don’t know how to be alone.  I mean, y’know its funny. People always talk about how love is this totally unselfish, giving thing,  but if you think about it, there’s nothing more selfish.

  Most people, you know, a lot of people talk about the past lives, and things like that, and even if they don’t believe in it in some specific way, people have some kind of notion of an eternal soul, right? Okay. Well, this is my thought. 50,000 years ago, there are not even a [...]

                                                                                                                                                               Have you ever heard that as couples get older, they lose their ability to hear each other? Well, supposedly, men lose the ability to hear higher-pitched sounds and women eventually lose hearing in the low end I guess they sort of nullify each other, or something. I guess. Nature’s way of allowing couples to [...]

                                                                                                                                                                                         . When you’re lonely in the night, I’ll be near to hold you tight, If you ever want to cry, I’ll be there to kiss your eyes!                                                                                                         Arsenie

  Life is so disappointing. Here you are. You have arrived. You are here. This is your moment. What do you have? You have pain. When you have everything… what do you have? You have nothing. When everything is right, everything is wrong. It’s disappointing. It’s confusing. This is life. What can you do? People [...]

                                                                                                                                                                                . I have to go, I have to go. Everybody has to go. Where the fuck does everybody go  when they have to go?

  What exactly needs explanation? The fact that I’ve been waiting around like a moron hoping that one day you’ll actually feel about me the way I feel about you? Or the fact that you’re so obsessed with your future that you completely forget about everyone that you’re supposed to give a shit about? I’m [...]

  Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.

  Lord, I’ve never lived where churches grow I loved creation better as it stood That day you finished it so long ago And looked upon your work and called it good I know that others find you in the light That sifted down through tinted window panes And yet I seem to feel you [...]

  The way you’re moving in your sleep, the way you look before you leap the strange illusions that you keep, you don’t know, but I’m noticing.

  Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good. The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. I abhor vivisection with my whole soul. All the scientific discoveries stained with innocent blood I count as of no consequence. Experience [...]

  Be careful when you fight the monsters, lest you become one. In heaven all the interesting people are missing. It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them! Man is the cruelest animal. No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. One must [...]

  A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins. Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine. Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.  Friendship is Love without his wings! Friendship [...]

  Which of us, Lamartine, knows not by heart That song adored by lovers whose souls smart? ‘Twas by a lake, one evening, thou didst sigh; Who has not read a thousand times again Those lines wherein thy mistress speaks betimes? Who has not sobbed over those griefs divine, Deep as the sky and pure [...]

  I don’t know whether you’ve ever seen a map of a person’s mind. Doctors sometimes draw maps of other parts of you, and your own map can become intensely interesting, but catch them trying to draw a map of a child’s mind, which is not only confused, but keeps going round all the time. [...]

  Girls are taught a lot of stuff growing up: If a guy punches you, he likes you. Never try to trim your own bangs. And someday you will meet a wonderful guy and get your very own happy ending. Every movie we see, every story we’re told, implores us to wait for it. The third [...]

  Well, my first husband was unimpressive. I found him in bed with his big-breasted secretary when I came home early from the Maldives. It was just so unoriginal. Made me feel sorry for him. My second husband was a pinch more creative. Cheated on me with my sister but made me believe that I was [...]

  If a girl’s into you, she’s sleeping with you. If after a month, or two months at the very outside …she’s not sleeping with you? She doesn’t like you. The trick is to spot this girl early. Don’t wanna waste the one to seven weeks waiting to find out it’s never gonna happen. So [...]

  I used to think that I had never been dumped. Yeah, then we started comparing notes. Then we realized we’ve both been dumped by every man we’ve ever been with. Every one. But they do it so skillfully. They just so sneaky that you think it was your idea. Yeah. You’re sitting back and [...]

  He doesn’t call because he has no interest in seeing you again. If a guy doesn’t call you, he doesn’t wanna call you. If a guy is treating you like he doesn’t give a shit… he genuinely doesn’t give a shit. No exceptions.