Life 44....

Those curve balls keep on coming.
Eventually, you learn to hit some of them.
-Queen Latifah

it's like the hidden secret that no one tells you.  We can all be beautiful girls.  It's like Dorothy clicking her heels to go home.  You could do it all along -Sarah Dessen, Keeping the Moon

The truth is, there is no line. There's only your life, how you mess it up, and who is there to save you. Or who isn't. -Mitch Albom, For One More Day

We know what we are, but know not what we may be. - Shakespeare

He gets down to the end of his life, and he looks back and decides that all those years he suffered, Those were the best years of his life, 'cause they made him who he was. All those years he was happy? You know, total waste. Didn't learn a thing. -Little Miss Sunshine

At least that was the hope. Hope, he'd learned, was sometimes all a person had -Nicholas Sparks, The Choice

It turns out, you can't save people from themselves.

It is the things you cannot see coming that are strong enough to kill you. -Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

You can't break a bad habit by throwing it out the window. You've got to slowly walk it down the stairs.  -Mark Twain

To laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intellingent persons and the affection of children; to earn the approbation of honest citizens and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to give of one's self; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to have played and laughed with enthusiasm and sung with exultation; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived - this is to have succeeded. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

So much struggle for meaning, for purpose. And in the end, we find it only in each other. Our shared experience of the fantastic. And the mundane. The simple human need to find a kindred, to connect. And to know in our hearts... that we are not alone -Heroes

If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance. - George Bernard Shaw

Scratch the surface of most cynics and you find a frustrated idealist -- someone who made the mistake of converting his ideals into expectations. - Peter Senge

Myrtle: you've got to stand on your own two feet.
Helen: i don't think i'm strong enough.
Myrtle: of course you are, you've got the strength God gave all women to survive. you just have to tap into it.
-Diary of a Mad Black Woman

In the end, I'll look back on my life and see that the greatest piece of it was love. The problems, the divorces, the sadness... those will be there too, but just smaller slivers, tiny pieces.- Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby

Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave. -Mary Tyler Moore

It made me realize that even when everyone is doing the same thing, we all do it differently. Some faster, some slower. Some with ease, some with great difficulty. But the thing is, you can't compare yourself to how anyone else is doing. What matters is your race, not how everyone else is running it -Sarah Dessen

You spend your life thinking you're on the right track,only to discover you're on the wrong train.

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