Life 37...

Have you ever wondered what marks our time here? If one life can really make an impact on the world? Or if the choices we make matter? Sometimes in order to move forward, you have to go back -One Tree Hill

But once you throw a stone, there are ripples in the pond, even if you remove the rock -Jodi Picoult, Vanishing Acts

When a defining moment comes along, you can do one of two things. Define the moment, or let the moment define you.- Tin Cup.

Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it often substitutes for both. - John Andrew Holmes

There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up -Oscar Wilde

In life, you can't get caught up wishing for something that won't happen. You've just gotta move on to the next best thing. - The OC

Life isn't supposed to be an all or nothing battle between misery and bliss. Life isn't supposed to be a battle at all. And when it comes to happiness, well, sometimes life is just okay, sometimes it's comfortable, sometimes wonderful, sometimes boring, sometimes unpleasant. When your day's not perfect, it's not a failure or a terrible loss. It's just another day- Barbara Sher

If we can forgive what's been done to us. . .
If we can forgive what we've done to others. . .
If we can leave all of our stories behind. Our being villains or victims.
Only then, maybe, can we rescue the world.
-Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted

Because that was then and this is now... If you go around angry all the time, you're the one it hurts. I react to things that happen today. That's what i can fix. I can't fix the past -Alice on Her Way

What is it you said to the kid? The world ain't all sunshine and rainbows. It's a very rough, mean place... and no matter how tough you think you are, it'll always bring you to your knees and keep you there, permanently... if you let it. You or nobody ain't never gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain't about how hard you hit... it's about how hard you can get hit, and keep moving forward... how much you can take, and keep moving forward. If you know what you're worth, go out and get what you're worth. But you gotta be willing to take the hit. -Rocky

The minute you think you're going to lose something, it suddenly becomes the most important thing in your life.-Men In Trees

Nobody will pay attention, until you make a fatal mistake.

Anger and resentment can stop you in your tracks. That's what I know now. It needs nothing to burn but the air and the life that it swallows and smothers. It's real, though - the fury, even when it isn't. It can change you... turn you... mold you and shape you into something you're not. The only upside to anger, then... is the person you become. Hopefully someone that wakes up one day and realizes they're not afraid to take the journey, someone that knows that the truth is, at best, a partially told story. That anger, like growth, comes in spurts and fits, and in its wake, leaves a new chance at acceptance, and the promise of calm. -The Upside Of Anger

I'm starting to learn. You cant make someone love you. You cant make someone be faithful to you. You cant control your own fate sometimes... things happen.. good, bad... indifferent. You just have to let some things go... and hope they turn out for the best.... its like falling off a horse. You're in the air.. and you know its going to hurt like hell when you hit the ground. But there isnt enough time to stop it. So you close your eyes and hope for the best.-Arminda Meer

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. - Mark Twain

Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway - Mary Kay Ash

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give- Sir Winston Churchill

People are often unreasonable, irrational, and self-centered; Forgive them anyway. If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives; Be kind anyway.  If you are successful, you will win some unfaithful friends and some genuine enemies; Succeed anyway. If you are honest and sincere people may deceive you; Be honest and sincere anyway. What you spend years creating others could destroy overnight; Create anyway. If you find serenity and happiness, some may be jealous; Be happy anyway. The good you do today, will often be forgotten. Do good anyway. Give the best you have, and it may never be enough; Give your best anyway.

I think we can't go around measuring our goodness by what we don't do - by what we deny ourselves, what we resist and who we exclude. I think we've got to measure goodness by what we embrace, what we create and who we include.- Chocolat

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