Life 53....

Life's greatest comforts is being able to look over your shoulder and see people worse off, waiting in line behind you. -Chuck Palahniuk, Rant

To me, the glass is half-empty some days and half-full on others. Sometimes it's bone-dry. Or overflowing. - Mary Alice Monroe

Endings are never easy. I always build them up so much in my head that they can't possibly live up to my expectations and I just end up disappointed. I'm not even sure why it matters to me so much how things end. I guess it's because we all want to believe that what we do is very important. That people hang on to our every word, that they care what we think. The truth is, you should consider yourself lucky if you even occasionally get to make someone, anyone, feel a little better. - Scrubs

The thing is--fear can't hurt you any more than a dream. -William Golding

Some things, however, are true no matter how hard you might try to block them out, and a lie is always a lie, no matter how prettily told. Some doors, once they're opened, can never be closed again, just as some trust, once it's been lost, can never be won back -Alice Hoffman, Blue Diary

Its a funny thing about life... if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. -W. Somerset Maughemh

I guess that's the point of it all. No one knows for certain how much impact they have on the lives of other people. Oftentimes, we have no clue. Yet we push it just the same. -Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why

When we are struck at without reason, we should strike back again very hard; I am sure we should- so hard as to teach the person who struck us never to do it again. - Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre

The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be. – Marcel Pagnol

And then it came. The happiness at getting what you want is not usually commensurate with the worry leading up to it. Relief is a short-lived emotion, passive and thin. The agony of doubt disappears, leaving little memory of how it really felt. Life aligns behind the new truth. -Ann Brasheres

There is never a sudden revelation, a complete and tidy explanation for why it happened, or why it ends, or why or who you are. You want one and I want one, but there isn't one. It comes in bits and pieces, and you stitch them together wherever they fit, and when you are done you hold yourself up, and still there are holes and you are a rag doll, invented, imperfect. And yet you are all that you have, so you must be enough. There is no other way. -Mayra Hornbacher, Wasted

When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. -Harriet Beecher Stowe

You are, after all, what you think. Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions. –Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat Pray Love

But the worst thing the truth can do? Is when you finally tell it, it doesn't set you free... but locks you away, forever. -Gossip Girl

The big reason why folks leave a small town, he used to say, is so they can moon over the idea of going back. And the reason they stay put is so they can moon about getting out. He meant that no one is happy, anywhere. -Chuch Palahniuk, Rant

We do not do what we want, and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact. Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.- Nicolas de Chamfort

You can't go back to how things were. How you thought they were. All you really have... is now. -Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why

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