List my 100 favorite quotes.

The writer must write what he has to say. Not speak it.

(This makes a lot of sense to me. I hate talking on the phone but will text, email, or write letters all day. I saw this quote on a box at Barnes and Noble recently and actually got a little teary, but I’m pretty emotional.)

1. i kissed a werewolf and i liked it hope my sparkly boyfriend won’t mind it
2.when life hands you lemons throw them back and demand Taylor Lautner
3.when i tell you i love you its not out of habit, or to start a conversation its to remind you that your the best thing that has ever happened to me
4.im not mean i just say what everyone else is thinking
5.You all laugh at me because I’m different, I laugh at you because you’re all the same.
6.”Sometimes you have to stand alone to prove that you can stand.”
7.”Don’t frown because you never know whos falling in love with your smile.”
8.hold your head high gorgeous, there are millions who would kill to see ya fall
9.”Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you respond to it.”
10.”I would rather die on my feet than surrender on my knees.”
11.”Love is … running into his arms, colliding with his heart, and exploding into his soul.”
12.”When I saw you I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew.”
13.”For you I would stop the very rotation of the earth, simply to keep one moment forever.”
14.”Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss you’ll land among stars.”
15.”When I die I wish to come back as one of her tears. What man would be so lucky as to have been conceived in her heart, born in her eyes, live on her cheeks, and die at her lips.”
16.”If you don’t stand for something, you’ll fall for anything.”
17.Tell a man that there are 300 billion stars in the universe, and he’ll believe you… Tell him that a bench has wet paint upon it and he’ll have to touch it to be sure.”
18.”To the world you may be somebody, but to somebody you may be the world.”
19.”It is better to open your eyes and say you don’t understand, than to close your eyes and say you don’t believe.”
20.”Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.”
21.”Those who are poor, smile at what they have, yet those who have good fortune, frown at what they do not have.”
22.”No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”
23.”Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.”
24.”Life is like a circle, and someday if we travel in opposite directions on the circle we will meet again.” – Todd L. Bradbury
25.”Don’t criticize what you don’t understand.”
26.”All you need is love.”
27.”The best advice you can ever give or recieve is to be yourself.”
28.”The best index to a person’s character is how a person treats people who can’t do them any good or can’t fight back.”
29.”It was a million tiny things like that, when you add them all up, that meant we were suppose to be together, and I knew it.”
30.”The simple thought of him means more to me then the presence of others.”
31.”The minute I heard my first love story,
I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was.
Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere.
They’re with each other all along.
32.”Love will pass by many times, but true love will stop to look.”
33.”A smile is a curve that can set a lot of things straight.”
34.”If you get to heaven before I do, make a little hole and pull me up.”
35.”Sometimes I wish I could go back to the days when I was six and my biggest problem was what kind of dress to put on my Barbie’s or whether or not I had enough Lego’s to build a fort.”
36.”Have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.”
37.”Never fear the shadows. They simply mean there’s a light shining nearby.”
38.”Accept that some days you’re the pigeon, and some days your the statue.”
39.”May your world be full of color and your crayons never melt.”
40.”Sometimes you gotta laugh through the tears, smile through the pain so that you can live through the sorrow.”
41.”When people keep telling you that you can’t do a thing, you kind of like to try it.”
42.”Everything is always ok in the the end. If it’s not ok, then it isn’t the end.”
43.”If I won’t be myself, who will?”
44.”In every man’s heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.”
45.”You probably wouldn’t worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do.”
46.”At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.”
47.”You’re not free in life until you are free of wanting others approval.”
48.”I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life’s realities.”
49.”Be the change you want to see in the world.”
50.”Some of the best things in life will come to you when you’re not looking for them.”
51.”People are just about as happy as they make up their mind to be”
52.”All the darkness in the world could not put out the light of one small candle.”
53.”I am what I am and that is all I am and I am it.”
54.”I never let schooling interfere with my education.”
55.”In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: It goes on.”
56.”Surely there is something in the unruffled calm of nature that overawes our little anxieties and doubts, the sight of the deep-blue sky, and the clustering stars above, seem to impart a quiet to the mind.”
57.”We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
58.”Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”
59.”Beauty is in the eye of the beholder”
60.”I really believe, or want to believe, really I am nuts, otherwise I’ll never be sane.”
61.”Its the quiet ones you have to watch out for.”
62.”After a time, you may find that “having” is not so pleasing a thing, after all, as “wanting.” It is not logical, but it is often true.”
63.”We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another.”
64.”It is better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all.”
65.”I like a man who grins when he fights.”
66.”Education is very important. School, however, is another matter.”
67.”You are only what you are when no one is looking”
68.”A stranger loses half his charm the day he is no longer a stranger.”
69.”Plant your own garden and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.”
70.”If there were dreams to sell, what would you buy?”
71.”Never be afraid to sit awhile and think.”
72.”No day is so bad it can’t be fixed with a nap.”
73.”A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself.”
74.”Hopeless romantics are only hopeless in the eyes of those who don’t believe in romance.”
75.”I think that if two people are meant to be together when they see each other they get this incredible feeling like none other, a special feeling that is incredible and they know that they want and are supposed to spend the rest of their life with that person … and you just know and that is love at first sight.”
76.”There are those who do not believe that a single soul born in heaven can split into twin spirits and shoot like falling stars to earth where over oceans and continents their magnetic forces will finally unite them back into one. But how else to explain love at first sight?”
77.”Who ever loved that loved not at first sight.”
78.”Some things are true whether you believe them or not.”
79.”Don’t you just hate that? Uncomfortable silences. Why do we feel it’s necessary to talk about bull in order to be comfortable? That’s when you know you’ve found somebody really special, when you can just shut the heck up for a minute and comfortably share a silence.”
80.”I like to feel his eyes on me when I look away.”
81.”He smiled, she smiled, they knew right away, this was the day they’d waited for their whole lives, for a moment the whole world revolved around one boy & one girl.”
82.”Love & electricity are one in the same my dear, if you do not feel the jolt in your soul, every time a kiss is shared, a whisper is spoken, a touch is felt, then you’re not really in love.”
83.”Eyes that long to see you, ears that listen to hear you, lips that yearn to kiss you, a heart that beats to love you, arms that ache to hold you, hands that need to touch you, a body that lives to fulfill you, a spirit that dies without you. Thats… love
84.”Have you ever loved someone so much it hurt?”
85.”Earth my body. Water my blood. Air my breath. Fire my spirit.”
86.”Some people exist just to annoy me!”
87.”Not to decide is to decide.”
88.”If you’re going to walk on thin ice, you might as well dance.”
89.”Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.”
90.”People will always talk about you, especially when they envy you and the life you live. Let them … you affected their lives, they didn’t affect yours.”
91.”Pain is temporary. Pride is forever.”
92.”Presence is more than just being there.”
93.”Always behave like a duck; keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath.
94.”Philosophy will clip an angel’s wings,Conquer all mysteries of rule and line,Empty the haunted air, the gnomed mine,Unweave a rainbow.”
95.”There are many trails up the mountain, but in time they all reach the top.
96.”If I could wish for one thing, it would be to have nothing to wish for.”
97.”You know it’s a best friend, when you can sit on the porch swing for hours, not say a word, and feel like you’ve just had the best conversation of your life.”
98.”You think you know me just because you know my name, think you’ve seen me ‘cause you’ve seen every line on my face.”
99.”Passion + Persistence = Possibility”
100.”Keep the faith, you know your gonna live through the rain.”

“The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.”

now to only find out what the main thing is…

“The unreal is more powerful than the real, because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. because its only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. stone crumbles. wood rots. people, well, they die. but things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on.”

dream on <3

“The only things you regret are the things you don’t do.”

I needed to hear this one so badly. As a junior this year, I’m starting to look at colleges to apply. I’m gonna take the ‘apply EVERYWHERE’ approach and take the risk of denial in the hope of one amazing acceptance :)

“Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass…it’s about learning how to dance in the rain”—Unknown

i won’t count this as one of my 100 favorites cuz it doesn’t have that great of an impression on me. but it is a nice reminder

“The comfort zone takes our greatest aspirations and turns them into excuses for not bothering to aspire.” – Peter McWilliams

“Don’t ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive, and then go do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”—Harold Thurman

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.

“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.” – Helen Keller

an quote to remind myself to get out of this rut…