208. “No one ever won a chess match by making only forward moves. Just like in life, sometimes we have to move backward to take a better step forward.”
209. Everything has an ending.
210. Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning
211. People gather bundles of sticks to build bridges they never cross
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207. One day a young girl dreamed of growing up. Then she dreamed of growing down.
(I know it says I’ve completed this goal but I hit the wrong button. I will complete this soon though.)
204. Life is the most fragile, unstable and unpredictable thing there is. In fact there’s only one thing about life we can be sure of. It ain’t over til its over.
205. The ties that bind us are sometimes impossible to explain. They connect us even after it seems like the ties should be broken. Some bonds defy distance and time and logic. Because some ties are simply meant to be.
206. I believe in heaven. I also believe in hell. I have never seen either but I believe they exist. They have to exist. Because without a heaven, without a hell, we’re all just headed for limbo.
All true readers have a book, a moment when real life is never going to be able to compete with fiction again.
Some long ones here but they had to be because they didn’t make sense when reading out of context.
200. I believe she will survive this. I believe in the good. I believe that its been a hell of a year. I believe that in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary we will all be okay. I believe a lot of things. I believe that Denny is always with me. I believe that if I eat a tub of butter and no one sees me that calories don’t count. I believe that surgeons who prefer staples over stitches are just lazy. I believe that you are a man who made a terrible mistake marrying Callie. And I believe that because I’m your best friend, I can tell you this and we can be okay. I believe that even though you made this mistake you will be okay. I believe we survive. I believe that believing we survive is what makes us survive. Grey’s Anatomy, season three episode 16.
201. We realise in the face of life that the true dream is being able to dream at all.
202. You hold this book, our story, in your hands (let me fantasize it’s in hardcover with a brilliant jacket design), now with considerably more pages on the left side than on the right. Like you, I’ve been there a thousand times. We both know, writer and reader, like the proverbial sand in the hourglass, the seconds on the clock, the story is over. Lori Lansen, The Girls
195. Time flies. Time waits for no man. Time heals all wounds. All any of us wants is more time. Time to stand up. Time to grow up. Time to let go. Time.
196. The fantasy is simple. Pleasure is good. And twice as much pleasure is better. That pain is bad. And no pain is better. But the reality is different. The reality is that pain is there to tell us something. And there’s only so much pleasure we can take without getting a stomach ache. And maybe that’s okay. Maybe some fantasy are only supposed to live in our dreams.
197. Does it hurt? Yeah. Where does it hurt? Everywhere. Maybe it hurts for a reason.
198. We all think we’re going to be great. And we feel a little bit robbed when our expectations aren’t met. But sometimes our expectations sell us short. Sometimes the expected simply pales in comparison to the unexpected. You gotta wonder why we cling to our expectations. Because the expected is just what keeps us steady. Standing. Still. The expected’s just the beginning. The unexpected is what changes our lives.
199. Did you say it? I love you. I never want to live without you. You changed my life. Did you say it? So make a plan. Set a goal. Work towards it. But every now and then take a look around. Drink it in. Because it might all be gone tomorrow.
Life is short. Life is short and it sucks a lot of the time. So go. Go and be happy.
(Finding it hard to find more quotes that inspire me now!)
Rather a lot of AA Milne, who I think saw the world through interesting eyes.
188. If you live to be a hundred, I want to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you. A. A. Milne.
189. There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate. Charles Dickens.
190. The best time for planning a book is when you are doing the dishes. Agatha Christie, Queen of Crime.
191. Sometimes if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known. A.A.Milne.
192. “Its snowing still,” Eeyore said gloomily.
“So it is.”
“And freezing.”
“Is it?”
“Yes,” said Eeyore. “However,” he said brightening up a little, “we haven’t had an earthquake lately.” A.A. Milne.
Not very many on this entry but I am now running low on them!
180. What if it doesn’t work out?
What if it does? (One Tree Hill)
181. The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless. Steven Weinberg
182. The Welsh people possess that surest of all retreats from the outsider, their own language. H. V. Morton.
183. The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment, then where is it to be found? J. B. Priestly.
184. No one thinks of winter when the grass is green! Rudyard Kipling.
185. It is never wise to try to appear to be more clever than you are. It is sometimes wise to appear slightly less so. William Whitelaw.
186. Today there are more Chinese studying English than there are Americans. Michael Armstrong.
187. Six million young men lie in premature graves and four old men sit in Paris partitioning the earth. New York Nations newspaper.
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